More ID's for plants in my wildflower border, please.
Hi, I'd like help with ID's for a few more plants that are in my new wildflower border, bar one. The first is the long-leafed plant in the left centre of the picture. There are a few of these dotted around the garden and I was wondering whether it's friend or foe?
The same applies to the second photo' of the leaves with scalloped edges.
The third and fourth pic's is of an umbelliferous plant with delicate multi-lobed dill-like leaves.
The next two pic's are of a plant with delicate, tiny white flowers, again with dill-like leaves and a distinctive arrangement of petals I've seen on another plant, the name of which I can't recall!
The last pictures are of a largish plant that has Amaranth like flowers, while the leaves are like very large marigold leaves.









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The top one is an ox-eye daisy, the second one might be as well, before it starts to spread.
Do the dill like ones smell of dill?
The white flowers look like candytuft but it's not, the leaves are wrong.
In the sticks near Peterborough
Second is something like ammi/ cow parsley
I cant remember the name of the third, candytuft? Or something beginning with I ?
Not a clue with the last, sorry
Thanks, no Nutcutlet, it's not dill. I have that in my garden every year and the flowerheads are different to the one in the picture.
I think I remember now what the small white-flowered plant is, coriander. I'm going to check my pics of last years' plants because I had it in the garden then.
I thought the plant in the last picture might be some kind of Amaranth, but the leaves don't fit, although the flower heads do.
From research: plant in numbers 3 and 4 looks like Trachyspermum ammi (ajwain);
the last Picture seems to be common ragweed (Ambrosia artemisifolia)...
Thanks DW, I think you've nailed it for those 2. Shame about the ragweed - thought it might be something worth keeping.
I don't know Ragweed so I googled - looks like it can be very invasive so a good idea not to let it seed http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambrosia_artemisiifolia
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Indeed Dove, I'd heard the name but until I checked as you did I didn't realise how invasive - it's a real thug. Just about to go into the garden to get rid of it!
I've checked my garden dairy and the small white flower with dill-like leaves is definitely coriander. I remember being surprised when someone first identified this for me because it doesn't have the leaf shape that most of us associate with the plant.