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Plant ID (geum/buttercup)

mdw84mdw84 Posts: 105
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Hi all 

please see pictures for plants ID, I bought geums last year and the year before they are planted in two areas and at my amazement I thought wow look at there growth but hang on they are mostly Mrs Bradshaw geums and one other yellow geum, so decided I would have a look through threads and then it came to me that it could be creeping buttercup. Please help.  

the first three pictures are from a different part of my garden, to me the first picture looks like it is a flowering stem of a geum (fingers crossed).

 

thanks all

 

 

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  • darren636darren636 Posts: 666
    Looks like creeping buttercup
  • Victoria SpongeVictoria Sponge Posts: 3,502

    I think the first one is a geum, mdwimage

    Wearside, England.
  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,384

    The plant just in front of the grassy one in the first photo is a geum but the rest are buttercups.

    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,138

    I agree with Victoria Sponge - there's something that might be a geum there, but there's also a buttercup.  Most of the other photos are of buttercups - it's going to take some proper kneeling down careful weeding to sort out what's what - and the sooner the better.

    Good luck image


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • mdw84mdw84 Posts: 105

    Thank you all.

    i never did have them, I wonder if creeping buttercup came in on some wildflower seeds ????

    I've got some work to do tomorrow

  • mdw84mdw84 Posts: 105

    Am I right in thinking that the leaves that are showing in the photos as silvery white green, they are creeping buttercup?

  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,384

    Definitely remove them before any seeds are produced as those survive in the ground for decades.  The main reasons it takes over are that it continues growing over the winter and spreads by runners which are usually just below or on the surface.  I've been battling it for 30 years, never letting it seed but everytime I turn the soil new seedlings appear..

    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445

    Agree, a geum between the buttercups and what might be a hemerocallis.

    The silver white green leaves are all buttercups yes. If you can get all those out without destroying anything else you might find more geums. I can see otherplants peeping out. Just waiting for the weeder to come alongimage



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • mdw84mdw84 Posts: 105

    See that what happens when you go all natural planting, or not recognising a weed ????

    you're right nutcutlet it is a hemerocallis, there is also poppy, japanese anemone, chives, lemon balm, a blue thistle like plant, alliums.

  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445

    lemon balm, there's another one with ideas above its stationimage



    In the sticks near Peterborough
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