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weed large leaves 18 inches ish and tiny blue flowers
nin
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I have a weed in my garden big leaves like a fox gloves leaves just itchyer. and tiny blue flowers like a "birdseye speedwell"
I had this weed come up in the veg patch about 3 or 4 years ago never spread just stayed there cut down now and again and i quite liked the little flower.
then last year it came up in one place in the flower garden now it is swamping the whole garden this year with these immense long thick tap roots.
Any ideas what this is ?
I do weed my garden quite a lot as next door supplies me with brambles, nettles, sticky weed, dandelions, buttercups and convolvulus in shed loads so am always digging out weed roots but this new weed seems to have the root of all roots
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Sounds like my anchusa
Do the leaves have white spots on ? I'd say definitely say alkanet, a pain if so. Great for wildlife but spreads like mad. have to keep digging out or resort to gylosphate...
Many thanks
looked up alkanet and found this https://davisla.wordpress.com/2012/05/03/plant-of-the-week-pentaglottis-sempervirens/ and it is.
This says its related to borage which is interesting.
It is indeed, and the bees love it. If you can confine it to a shady and otherwise useless corner, fine; otherwise get rid of it. I've got it in my little yard and if I didn't keep pulling it out I'd have nothing else. Except brambles.
My garden is riddled with it... several years ago a kindly relative informed me it was comfrey.... i went about cutting it back and adding it to my compost at every opportunity thinking it would become super compost and do the garden no end of good!!
am still paying the price!