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Identify a weed please

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  • Hi There!

     

    I agree its too early to yet yet. If you have others growing leave a few to grow so it will be easier to identify.

     

    Over at Scotts Lawn Service we have a great weed identification tool called the Lawnopedia with pictures and other identifying factors as well. In addition if its a harmful weed or a weed you just dont like it also gives useful control methods.

    Message me if you have any other questions

     

    -Scotts Lawn Service Representative

     

  • GillyLGillyL Posts: 1,077

    Tip for the future Tomsk,always put a label in whatever you plant with the name,and I also find it useful to  put the date of planting.

    As already said too early to make an identification from your photos,perhaps you can repost when the true leaves appear.

  • TomskTomsk Posts: 204

    To update this thread, those shoots are now 2-3 feet tall and I think they're weeds? They have small purple flowers but they're mainly green and not the colourful flowers I was hoping for. They also seem to have smothered the bulbs and seeds I planted for some colour in my garden. And there' milldew on these weeds too, which may be why a couple of the sprouted bulbs in the middle of them have gone brown before growing tall, let alone flowering. I sprayed them all a couple of times with heavily diluted bicarbonate of soda and washing up liquid, though the bulbs have still gone brown.

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     Anyone know what kind of weeds these are? There seems little point in pulling them up now, as it's too late for anything else to grow properly. But if I see the same shoots next year I'm pulling them straight up!

  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 23,977

    They are weeds, I'm just having a mental blank as to name, I know them well! Do pull them up or they will set seed everywhere.

    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • waterbuttswaterbutts Posts: 1,239

    It may not be a native plant at all. Do you throw seed out for the birds? I have had some really odd plants come up that way.

  • PeterE17PeterE17 Posts: 129

    It looks like a willowherb but I could not say which one, there are dozens of species. Perhaps it is a small-flowered willowherb.

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,109

    Definitely a willowherb -I think it's  the Broadleaved willowherb http://www.flowers.goodpages.co.uk/index.php?page=broad-leaved-willowherb

    pull it up before it seeds or it'll be everywhere smothering everything else next year.!


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





  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,441

    definitely a willow hwerb, I've got that one (and most of the othersimage)



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • artjakartjak Posts: 4,167

    Oh Nutimage

  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,441

    this garden was derelict land for years artjak and then had other peoples rubbish dumped on it. I consider myself lucky not to have ground elder or japanese knotweed 



    In the sticks near Peterborough
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