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Plant ID please
StanyeWest
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Hello - can anyone tell me what this is?
It has just shot up in the veg patch this week and it wasn't there last year!
thanks
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scratch and sniff, looks like rhubarb to me
In the sticks near Peterborough
Rhubarb on the right hand side of the second photo - definitely.
Not so sure about the pink stem in the centre of the first pic tho' ...
What's on the other side of the fence?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Hmmmm, maybe you're right Dove
In the sticks near Peterborough
sorry yes, we've definitley got two rhubarb that have come back from last year....it's the standalone stem that I'm not sure about.
The fence is our neighbours garden and I have heard that they had a Japanese knotweed problem a few years ago so am a little bit concerned. Although I would have though if it was knotweed, it would have appeared before now...?
thanks for your advice!
Possibly a rhubarb flower? You don't often see them so I can't recall what they look like when they are still just sprouting
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Ah, right well yes. It could be knotweed
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
looks like knotweed as the leaf doesn't look as curly as rhubarb