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Weed identification please
Amy Lathwell
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These have cropped up in our garden - not sure what they are...help!...
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Sorry - didn't realise the pics would be sideways!
The first one has leaves like Enchanter's Nightshade but the flower looks wrong
The second one looks a bit like one of the spireas, but I'm not sure
The third one is Aquilegia foliage - you should get some lovely flowers next year
Someone else will have more ideas ......
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Ooooh! I was wanting to plant some Aquilegia!
Thought the second one looked like Joe-Pye Weed, Eupatorium.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Hmmm, I thought Eupatorium flowers are flatter rather than in spires
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Yes - the image of the second one isn't very clear (and it didn't help that I took the photo just after a downpour) but the flower part is in a spire shape as Dove says
Could it be Spiraea x billardii?
Don't know the first, agree with aquilegia for the third.
I understood Spirea x billardii is sterile and only reproduces vegetatively. If that's what it is then it's either been planted, or where there's one there most be more .... spreading their way across Amy's garden .........
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I think the second is one of the vernonias, can't say which one.
re 1. is that all there is or is that part of a larger plant
In the sticks near Peterborough
The first one is most likely buckwheat (Polygonum fagopyrum), but as I have never
seen the plant for real, doubt remains...