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I bought a home with a very overgrown garden last year and have spent the past year taming it to a purple and pink paradise!! I bought some topsoil from a farmer to fill a box that I had made to hold alliums in the summer (already planted) some spring bulbs which have grown beautifully and some heathers and a blue grass for winter colour...however, a lot more has grown that I have not planted (eek). I can only think that they came in the soil. Now some I have identified - borage matches my garden colour scheme and goes nicely with the Irises that are currently blooming but theres a lot of leaves that I cannot identify and would like to know what they could be. There are also some plants appearing in my garden that I didn't plant but could have bloomed last year before I moved in. Your expert eyes are much appreciated, I never realised how photoing plants is hard! I've been a long time lurker on the forum but this is my first post!
these look like geranium leaves but haven't got the geranium smell
This is very fine and grew in the top soil in the raised bed
Again this is browning in the soil that I got from the farmer, no flowers so far on it. You can see how densely packed the bed has become from stuff I haven't planted!!
one more from the bed that I bought the top soil from. It looks almost like a large dandelion but has a hairy stalk
These have popped up in window boxes I inherited
Another left behind pot with unusual leaves and the bud has yet to open. theres a lot of leaves but no buds on any of the other sets.
Is this honey suckle? Its climbing my wall and growing before my eyes!
SO many questions...I've actually done a lot of learning but have so much left to do!!
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Hello and welcome loli. Unfortunately I cannot get the pictures to enlarge - hope this is just while they are tweaking the new format - so I'm having to try and guess some of the plants. If you have a few names you can go and look them up online and see if they match your plants.
I hope I am wrong but the last plant looks like it could be bindweed to me and going from your description that it is growing before your eyes makes it my suspect. It could also be a clematis but not being able to enlarge the pictures makes it difficult. If the 'plant' seems to be twisting around anything nearby that would make it bindweed. I'm not sure about the plant with the unusual leaves and the bud about to burst. The serrated leaves look like poppy leaves and the finely divided leaves could be nigella. The top leaves might belong to one of the geum family. Not sure on either of the pink flowers. Sorry that I cannot be more definite but there are many more people on here who can help.
Picture 2 of the plant with pink flowers and variegated leaves is a type of dead nettle, but the wild variety.
Picture 7 - I wonder if it is a californian poppy? It's very early for it to flower, but it may have been sheltered. This could explain no flowers on other plants of the same type. Are the leaves a sort of bluey-green and finely cut?
Picture 8 - I was also worried that it might be bindweed when you spoke of the speed of growth. Wait for the flower to open and if it is white I would check the flower shape against a picture of bindweed and then get it out as fast as you can, trying to get all the root out, as any little bit will continue to grow! If it opens with individual pointed petals then it is a clematis.
Happy gardening!
I'm having the same problem and can't zoom in on the pictures, but I'll have a stab at them
1. Could be one of the malvia family - probably the wild one.
2. Pink/red dead nettle
3. Possibly nigella
4. Possibly a large field poppy
5. Possibly opium poppy
6. Scarlet flax (Linum grandiflorum rubrum)
7. ???
8. As with Ladybird, I can't see it well enough - it could be a bindweed or possibly a type of clematis. If the stem twines it's likely to be a bindweed - if the leaf stalks curl around and cling onto supports it could be a clematis.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
If you hold your finger on the picture and then open a background tab, you can enlarge a picture
Thanks so much everyone! I'll keep an eye on the bindweed/clematis situation. My mums garden is full of bindweed so I know what the flower looks like. It's on it's own and leaving plants around it be without invading them.
I never knew poppies had such dense foliage for such a delicate flower! You learn something new every day!
I have been looking at the bindweed online and the leaves are similar but their pattern on the stem may be different, My leaves on whatever is growing grow in pairs on either side of the stem. The bud is at the tip on the stem rather then growing along the stem. Am I wishing this not to be bindweed a bit too much!!
I think that last one is a clematis, the growth style isn't bindweed, nor are the leaves and the bud right at the top is typical clematis.
Thanks for directions re enlargement B3
In the sticks near Peterborough
Fabulous news! Now to wait and see what colour the flower is to determine the variety. I already have an apple blossom clematis that I bought which is thriving at the bottom of the garden!
Last edited: 26 May 2016 21:34:53
It's a clematis
In the sticks near Peterborough