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Ann-8Ann-8 Posts: 8

Hi does anybody know what this plant is a few of them have sprung up in my garden 

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  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039

    It is a Teasel. Sorry forgotten Latin name.

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

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • TinglyTingly Posts: 140

    Largicus Teasli?

  • B3B3 Posts: 27,504

    Are you sure it's not teasullus enormus, tingly?

    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Ladybird4Ladybird4 Posts: 37,905

    Tee hee - Dipsacus fullonumimage

    Cacoethes: An irresistible urge to do something inadvisable
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,504

    It's certainly fullonum in my garden. It gets very big, but it's easy to pull out seedlings if they're in the wrong place. Seedlings are easy to recognize as they have a row of little spikes on th leaves. The younger ones are covered in little bumps.

    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,143
    B3 says:

    .......... it's easy to pull out seedlings ........... Seedlings are easy to recognize as they have a row of little spikes on the leaves. ..........

    See original post

     Ouch   !!!!!!!!!!!!!  image


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • B3B3 Posts: 27,504

    Yes dove. You can identify them by touch!

    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Ann-8Ann-8 Posts: 8

    Thank you all for the info I've no idea where they have come from . They have certainly grown very quick my husband thought they were triffids . ? 

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,143

    Bird feeders? 


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Ann-8Ann-8 Posts: 8

    ? You are right ,never thought of that I have bird feeders in the trees above ? Thank you 

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