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Help with plant name (again)
Please could someone give me a name for these two plants. I have spent a long time removing them from the garden, so it would be nice to know what they are called.
These are growing out from under some cement and gravel left when the builder's did the next door's fence. There's no way to get at the roots - but these two plants (along with oxalis & bitter cress) have gone rampant over the winter.
Thank you
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The second one is familiar but a name won't come.
Someone will recognise it tho
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I think the first is one of the willowherbs and the second Linaria purpurea.
In the sticks near Peterborough
That one Dove?
In the sticks near Peterborough
2 toadflax?
yes B3 purple toadflax
In the sticks near Peterborough
Thank you both. The willowherb has taken over the garden (mild wet winter). Now that I have the name I have found it on GW as a 'problem weed'.
Having looked up Linaria purpurea, maybe I should allow a few of them to flower - only removing the other several hundred.
The Linaria are nice and the bees like them. They just don't know when to stop
In the sticks near Peterborough
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Purple toadflax is welcome in my garden and combines beautifully with many flowers, particularly yellows pinks and reds. It's easy to pull out but won't transplant. If you trim it back in the autumn, you will get a bushier plant next year.