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What are l these?
Michael199
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Can anyone help. Beginner here and wondering what these are as they do not match anything I have planted here. Are the second two ivy? Thanks
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Sorry...I should have mentioned I planted poached eggs, alyssum snow carpet and rudbekia in the same border.
unless I've totally mis-judged the scaled you've got hairy bittercress and an annual weed with blue flowers whose name escapes me for the moment
No ivy or any garden plant
In the sticks near Peterborough
on close inspection I can see some seedlings there, one might be the poached eggs but too small on the screen to be sure. Get the weeds out and see how things develop, or do a close up of the seedlings if you can do close ups
I can't
In the sticks near Peterborough
The first pic is about 5cm tall..and the third pic is about 30 cm long. Which is the hairy bitter cress? And should I pull them up?
Is this poached egg?
The hairy bittercress is the top pic, its seeds shoot everywhere, I can see seed pods,
The blue is a speedwell, Veronica agrestis probably, both prolific seeders, annual weeds, very common, unlikely to find a garden without them. get 'em out
In the sticks near Peterborough
Thanks for the help nutcutlet. I'll weed them out asap
yes, I think that's a poached egg
Someone else may be more definite, I haven't grown that for a long time
In the sticks near Peterborough
Bottom two are ivy leaved toadflax (I think) and the top one is a common garden weed whose name escapes me at the moment.
Bittercress is the name that had escaped me. Things eventually come round in the carousel I have for a brain these days!