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Help identifying plants!
dannii83
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I am a novice but keen gardener and instead of just pulling everything out of the ground in case they are weeds I would like to know if anyone can identify what the attached are please?! Weeds or not?! Thanks!
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3 is alchemila and Californian poppy
4 is euphorbia, all are fine garden plants.
The other pictures look like weeds to me.
5 is the euphorbia, not 4.
the one before the euphorbia is a Japanese anemone
I don't recognise the biggest plant in 2.
1 is a mix of seedlings, can't see them too well, probably a mix of good and bad.I think I can see some forget me nots and the one in the middle looks like a weed
In the sticks near Peterborough
Number 2 could be rosebay willow herb - weed. Number 1 the plants with the long stems could be candelabra primulas. They seemed to have seeded around so they are definitely to be saved.
Thank you this is all really useful!
Last edited: 22 May 2016 20:44:44
1 tall weed + maybe forget-me-nots
2 Don't know but looks a bit like a bedding dahlia
3 Alchemilla mollis at the back + tiny seedlings + poppy at the front
4 Japanese anomone with aquilegia underneath
5 Euphorbia
Last edited: 22 May 2016 20:50:28
The little seedling in 3 is Eschscholzia - I've just planted out 60
Billericay - Essex
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I plant them every year and every year I get dire warnings about never being rid of them and every year they don't come back!
Number one looks like a form of bitter cress? a weed that will seed prolifically if left. Number two looks like a member of the willowherb family - another one that, left to its own devices, will seed prolifically. It also looks as if there are some forget-me-not seedlings in there, too.
Agree with the other plants, but would add that it looks like you have a Linarea Purpurea behind the Euphorbia. Pretty plant, can be left to grow if wanted or pulled out if not. It can be quite a useful filler, though, providing you don't let the seedlings get out of hand.
All in all a pretty good haul Dannii.