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Desirable or undesirable?
Please could someone tell me what this is. As usual I feel I should know this plant and may have asked about in the past but I can't find it in my previous posts.
I seem to remember it's an undesirable as it has unremarkable flowers and seeds prolifically. I have a few of these around the back garden at the moment and I'd like to make sure it is as I've described before I pull them.
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Hard to be sure, it looks as though it's had a dose of something with all those curled leaves. Might be Sweet Rocket
In the sticks near Peterborough
Hi Nut, thanks for your response. I remember now that we had this conversation in August last year (I found the post). Then they were just a small mound of basal leaves.
At the time, and now, I wasn't sure about your suggestion of sweet rocket because the leaves seem to be wrong. However, the stems and leaf arrangement seem to be about right, so you're probably correct. For that reason I'm going to leave them until they flower and then we'll know.
There are a couple of things that may be making the leaves curl like that. First, the garden really needs some water. The other is that the little plot they're in was prepared last year and only has a a few centimetres of soil on top of the base clay. My intention was to dig in lots of compost but I discovered quite a lot of horse tail growing.
I managed to dig all that out and left the soil enrichment for this year, which I'll be doing this week. I'll post some pictures when thye flower.
An update on this request for an ID. Nutcutlet was right, as usual, this is sweet rocket. The first flowers appeared in the last few days. Beautiful they are, too. I have several of them in the back garden so I'm really pleased. Unfortunately, I don't have my mobile at the moment so I can't post pic's.
I have sweet rocket in my garden ........ love it ................ the perfume on warm summer evenings is amazing ..................... warm summer evenings .............. wots one of those then?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Hi Dove, I love them, too. If I remember correctly you posted some pic's of yours the last time I posted a question about sweet rocket, a year or so ago. They were in or near a small veg' plot. Or am I confusing you with someone else? Some properly warm weather has just arrived in Sheffield!
I have some too in planters , not sure how the got there but last year I asked for an ID of some leaves and Nutcutlet let me know what they were - thank you Nutcutlet . . This year they are bigger and already in bloom. They smell lovely too. ?
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