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Guess the plant

WinniejWinniej Posts: 37

Hi

Can someone please identify this plant and tell me if friend or foe. It is popping up all over my garden and I didn't plant it.Am guessing some kind of geranium but it is prolific!

Thanks

Winnie 

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  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445

    Is this one plant or a mass of seedlings?

    Looks like a mass of love in a mist seedlings



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • WinniejWinniej Posts: 37

    Hi

    Thanks for responding. They are lots of individual plants in that photo but I have little individual plants all over the garden. I have never planted love in a mist to my knowledge. 

     

  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445

    Do they come out of the ground easily or are they deep rooted?

    It's not a geranium, Which annuals did you have last year? I suggested love in a mist as it's prolific self seeded but there are probably others similar



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • WinniejWinniej Posts: 37
    I just pulled a few up and to be honest quite deep rooted. 6 inches maybe. A couple broke as I pulled even though quite gentle so well stuck in! Am an amateur gerdener so last year had all sorts of annuals. Marigolds, petunias, non that looked like thsee which I recall. Am loathe to pull it up if will be something lovely but am also conscious it's growing fast in my small garden!
  • WinniejWinniej Posts: 37
    The leaves look like carrots to me. I planted these last year (in a pot and was a disaster!) image do carrots self seed?
  • arneilarneil Posts: 313

    It is a weed ! I think it is the weed version of geranium , the name escapes me at the moment

  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039

    You are thinking of Herb Robert arneil, it is not that.

    Deep roots are against it being Nigella, although that is what it looks like to me.

    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445

    carrots are biennials, if you grew them last year they would flower and seed this year. also when you pulled them up there would be a carrot.image



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • WinniejWinniej Posts: 37
    Thanks all. I grew Nigella last year in greenhouse but another failure! I do have a lot of geraniums which made me wonder about that but they are not doing much yet. This is on a mission!



    Did I pull it up to early for there to be a carrot nutcutlet? image



    Question is leave it or dig it up?
  • WinniejWinniej Posts: 37
    Just looked at images of herb Robert and remember having some of that elsewhere last year....maybe it is this? Do they have shallow roots then punk doc?
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