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Plant ID please
emilyb199320
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We've just moved into a new house, with some plants in the garden that I do not recognise. Please could anyone help?
1. This has just sprung up with a pale yellow flower. Weed or not?
2. This has sprung up in a bed I had prepared for sweet peas. Butterfly shaped seedlings. Research tells me an ivy or bind weed, can anyone confirm?
Thanks.
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Not sure about the first one ... someone will know ...........
The little seedlings with the interesting shaped leaves are Morning Glory (ipomoea) seedlings ... put some tall canes up into wigwams and they'll climb up and cover them with gorgeous flowers
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=morning+glory+ipomoea&rlz=1C1PRFC_enGB734GB735&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjG5vrE_pnUAhWrL8AKHekKC8kQ_AUICigB&biw=1366&bih=662
I grow some every year
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Nice, thanks! I've already got stakes in for my sweet peas, so hopefully they'll grow up those. Do they need help climbing? Do I need to tie them in once they're big enough?
Think the first one is a variety of Evening Primrose - some consider it a weed but it is very beautiful and cheery addition to the garden for others.
No need to tie them in ... they'll wind around the canes like runner beans do. Each flower only lasts a day, but there's always more each morning.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Thank you! That was quick!
Yes, the first one is an evening primrose, they smell very nice in the evening/night, the moths are feeding on them