What is this triffid?

[sizeofalentil]

These giant beasts have sprung up in my garden. I don't mind weeds, as long as they are pretty, as I'm just doing a wildflower lawn.

Any idea what they could be please?

[sizeofalentil]

Just to add - it could literally be anything. We have the only patch of green for a few gardens each way, at least, so seem to be a trap for all manner of seeds.

Have had strawberries and carrots appear in the lawn, which was lovely!

[MissWilmottsGhost]

I think it's umbelliferae (same family as carrots, parsnips and parsley) a wild one though, maybe hogweed

[MissWilmottsGhost]

There is a cabbage of some sort in the left of the picture too.

[sizeofalentil]

I thought it might be hogweed. I'll pull it up then before it spreads too much. Thank you.

Is there really a cabbage? Can't tell if you're joking…

[Sunseed]

Yes, that's a brassica (cabbage family) of some sort on the left.

[sizeofalentil]

How funny. I wonder what it's going to turn in to. Or how I am getting these random veg plants in my garden…

[MissWilmottsGhost]

Do you think it used to be a vegetable patch at one time?

I love the idea of a carrot and strawberry lawn 😁

[sizeofalentil]

Hmmm… MissWilmottsGhost , possibly. But probably not for a good few years. There's a lot of bluebells, lily of the valley, and plants that grow from this (not my picture, but I've forgotten the name of it…) i.stack.imgur.com/49kvB.jpg in the same area.

A lot of poppies seem to have sprung up too, in random pots of soil, which is lovely.

[sizeofalentil]

Crocosmia, might be the last bulb. They all came up blind though, so unsure :/

[sizeofalentil]

Yellow flowers Have appeared so I don't think it is hogweed?

[MrsT2007]

Hemlock or ragwort?

[sizeofalentil]

I don't think it's ragwort, because we've got that too. I hope it isn't hemlock. Hmmm think I'm going to dig it up in case it is poisonous

[scotjls]

It looks quite like angelica