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Mystery Plant

Rosie CupcakesRosie Cupcakes Posts: 98
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Does anyone know what this plant is?

It has seeded itself in the flower bed and on the lawn. A couple in the bed but about  5 clumps in the lawn.

Well I call it a lawn more like a wild meadow at the moment.

It's only on the right hand side of my garden and some of the grass area used to be a flower bed before we had the extension done a few years ago.

In the first photo it's the plant with the red tinged leaves in the forefront.

 

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  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445

    They have the look of tree suckers



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • Rosie CupcakesRosie Cupcakes Posts: 98

    Thanks you both for your replies.

    Nutcutlet - There are three trees on that side of my garden. I just been out and measrued and the nearest is about 9 feet and that's the nearest tree to the plant in the flower bed. Its a Prunus Cerasifera Nigra (Purple Leafed Plum).

    I have also tried to dig one of them out but the roots are woody and deep (Disturbed the allium bulbs as well that what the white objects are in the photos) See the photos below.

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     The leaves don't match any on my three trees, but I am inclined to think they are suckers.

    What is the best way to get rid of them?

     

     

  • Rosie CupcakesRosie Cupcakes Posts: 98

    This is a photo of the plants in the lawn with the side border and the tree in the background to show the distance to the nearest tree.

     

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  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445

    The prunus seems a likely suspect. It's what they do.

    I haven't found a wayof stopping them. I have this prunus, (or similar), alder and wild cherry suckering in various places in the garden. 



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,138

    I'd go with prunus suckers.  As Nut says, it's what they do.  

    Keep mowing the lawn regularly and it'll stop any new ones from getting to any sort of size. image


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





  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445

    The problem is after a year or so the bases of those suckers are hard wood and the roots of some become exposed and the mower (and the OH that fixes the mower) are not happy image



    In the sticks near Peterborough
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