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Plant ID - quick before we dig it all up

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JeNeSuisPasVotreMiel · 01/05/2017 13:00

On a renovation job, I don't recognise this perennial.
We're digging up the whole area for lawn, I can transplant these if they are worth it...

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JeNeSuisPasVotreMiel · 01/05/2017 13:01

Another shot

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JeNeSuisPasVotreMiel · 01/05/2017 13:03

On the floor

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JeNeSuisPasVotreMiel · 01/05/2017 13:06

One more with a sprig stuck in the gravel

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JT05 · 01/05/2017 13:07

Looks like a Cranesbill geranium and the spotty one is Pulmeria. Both worth saving.

StaggeringOn · 01/05/2017 13:09

Sycamore seedlings?

JeNeSuisPasVotreMiel · 01/05/2017 13:59

It's not pulmoneria, geranium or sycamore. I'm a professional gardener and can identify those easily. It's the one that is the same plant in the foreground of every pic that I'm interested in.
I'm actually sure that it will be obvious once someone has pointed it out, it's one that I don't usually grow.

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JeNeSuisPasVotreMiel · 01/05/2017 14:56

Here, plonked in the gravel for visibility

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AutumnEve · 01/05/2017 15:13

Woodland anemone?

picklemepopcorn · 01/05/2017 15:16

It's a runner? Almost like young Virginia Creeper. Could that have crept in from somewhere?

JeNeSuisPasVotreMiel · 01/05/2017 16:19

It is a bit like a young Virginia creeper. No signs of it on the nearby wall and fence though - I will go and look for evidence.

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JeNeSuisPasVotreMiel · 01/05/2017 17:42

Definitely not Virginia creeper. No signs of it trying to mount the wall it's growing at the bottom of.

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JeNeSuisPasVotreMiel · 01/05/2017 18:13

Whatever it is, there's no shortage of it, which makes me twitchy. ..

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JeNeSuisPasVotreMiel · 01/05/2017 18:32

View from the roots

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ErrolTheDragon · 01/05/2017 18:37

It looks very like one of my herbaceous geraniums - a very rampant one which has pink flowers for much longer than most, and is invasive given half a chance.

TheBitterBoy · 01/05/2017 18:43

Having seen the roots I would agree - geranium, Phoebes blush if the flowers are small and pink. I have this all over my garden.

TheBitterBoy · 01/05/2017 18:47

Or google Geranium Wargrave Pink - the leaves look more like it.

JeNeSuisPasVotreMiel · 01/05/2017 18:51

Yes I'm coming down on the side of your geranium Errol and Bitter.
Not cranesbill but likely a pink and rampant one.

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JeNeSuisPasVotreMiel · 01/05/2017 19:41

Apologies to JT05 for dismissing your earlier suggestion!
I had completely forgotten about that leaf shape for geraniums because I only plant blue or purple ones these days and the varieties I use usually have the rounder leaf shape.
I'm getting old!

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WellErrr · 01/05/2017 19:45

Not some kind of hellebore?

JT05 · 01/05/2017 19:47

Thanks, no worries. I'm a bit of a geranium fanatic! ☹️

ErrolTheDragon · 01/05/2017 20:56

I've got quite a few other geraniums, mostly blues and purples, and it is a quite different leaf to either those or the wild cranesbill types. It's my least favourite colour (of course, yours could be different) but the length of flowering makes it useful in the right place.

cathyandclare · 02/05/2017 21:19

I have some pinky geraniums that look exactly like that and grow rampantly in shade.

JeNeSuisPasVotreMiel · 03/05/2017 06:44

Yes cathyandclare that will be them.
I'm now happy to give the command to dig the whole area out, I'm sure that they will persist elsewhere in the garden.

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