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More ids please!

JAC51JAC51 Posts: 175

i have a few other ids please as you guys seem to know literally everything !

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 Any ideas?  Keep or get rid of ? The bottom one is quite invasive and is cropping up everywhere

 

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  • MackersMackers Posts: 21

    First one looks like mint, but it's still a bit early for that much new growth so I might be wrong. The last one looks like a geranium

  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,618

    Mint, valerian, bulb like Bluebell or lily of the valley, geranium.

  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,618

    There is also a variegated lamium like silver beacon in the last photo. Good in dry shade, as will be the geraniums.

  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039

    3 might be the foliage, which emerges in Spring of bare naked ladies, I have forgotten proper name.

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  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445

    The top one looks like Pentaglottis sempervirens, green alkanet. Deep roots, nice blue flowers, seeds around and resists being dug up

    next Centranthus ruber, valerian

    thje last is a geranium as Mackers said. At first glance I thought it was G lucidum, then realised it was wet, not a shiny plant. A dry photo might get closer to an ID.  How big is it?

     



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  • LG_LG_ Posts: 4,360

    I think the first one might be green alkanet. Are the leaves sort of rough / spiky to touch? If so, to be rid of it you have to remove the whole tap root. I hope it's mint...

    Then valerian, some kind of bulb, and probably geranium... but I also wondered about creeping buttercup?

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  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,618

    I think punkdoc is right with the bulb... naked ladies (colchicum)

  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445

    Yes, I think that's it, I thought it looked familiarimage



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  • LG_LG_ Posts: 4,360

    Lol Nutcutlet - cross posted! 

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  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445

    Hi LGimage



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