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Can anyone identify please?
jaffacakes
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Hi all, just hoping someone can identify these please?
This one appeared last year growing in a crack in the wall. I had no idea what it was. Feels like a cordyline as leaves are stiff. i since moved it to garden but is it worth keeping?
This looks like a eurphorbia. It was growing in my local beach and i'm just curious as it looks quite nice and fairly low growing.
Thanks all 
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First one looks very much like the dreaded Carex pendula. A seed weed of the worst kind. Check if the leaves are triangular in cross section.
Second does look like a Euphorbia, some of them are a bit inclined to seed all over the place too. Eyesight is not up to id from the photo though.
Thanks Berghill, i think you are right. It appears to be Carex Pendula. Why is it dreaded though? I have it in the garden for a year and it hasn't spread or self seeded or anything. I find it quite attractive
self seeds here more than I will tolerate.
It is indeed attractive, just remember to remove the flower heads before they set seed would be my advice
Ah - the innocence of youth! Wait till next year
It's worse if the ground's wetter rather than drier - but frankly, it ain't too fussy
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Thanks all. I'll have to keep an eye on this one and remove the seeds before they have a chance to spread.
...and even then you'll get more. Don't forget you found it growing in a crack in the wall!!
We have never let it even grow here for the last 20 years and still we get seedlings!