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What are these please?

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DavetheCat2001 · 03/06/2020 11:50

Another wildflowers id please. From a packet and have no idea what is what and whether anything needs pulling out?

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Beebumble2 · 03/06/2020 13:43

The little purple flowered one is Lamium often known as Dead Nettle. Doesn’t sting.
The serrated leaves could be Poppy, the fluffy leaves could be a form of Cosmos. Not all necessarily wild flowers, but lovely mixture.

DavetheCat2001 · 03/06/2020 13:52

Thank you so much @Beebumble2

I scattered them weeks ago and have no idea what any of them are! So the little purple ones aren't just weeds trying to take over?

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parietal · 03/06/2020 14:01

the last photo might be Nigella

I don't think the purple ones are weeds, and if you pull them out you'll probably damage the things nearby too.

Beebumble2 · 03/06/2020 14:39

No Lamium has several forms, some have pink flowers and silvery leaves, others yellow with variegated leaves.

FromIbizaToTheNorfolkMaud · 03/06/2020 16:09

I think the finely-cut leaves are nigella (love-in-a-mist) rather than cosmos.

MereDintofPandiculation · 03/06/2020 16:15

Yes, the little urple one is red dead nettle Lamium purpureum, the lobed leaves look like groundsel, the very thin looking simple leaves look like a chickweed, and the feathery ones look like love-in-a-mist (Nigella damascena) which isn't a native wildflower.

Which of the others came from the packet and which came from your soil is a different matter. Red dead nettles cost £1.50 each as plug plants which may or may not influence your desire to pull them out.

DavetheCat2001 · 03/06/2020 16:56

Amazing! Thanks for the info

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ErrolTheDragon · 03/06/2020 22:42

Red dead nettles can be a bit invasive IME. So if you start getting too much where you don't want it you may want to pull some out.

The thing in the centre of the first photo looks like a weed to me, but I'd wait till it flowers to be sure.

MereDintofPandiculation · 04/06/2020 09:49

The thing in the centre of the first photo looks like a weed to me, but I'd wait till it flowers to be sure. It looks like groundsel, which is a native UK wildflower. It probably arrived from the OP's own soil not from the packet. But "weed" isn't a type of plant. It's a term for a plant (usually vigorous) which the gardener doesn't want growing, so I don't think it is sensible to say "that's a weed" with the implication that it needs to be got rid of. The things I "weed out" from my garden include Alchemilla mollis, violets and primroses.

ErrolTheDragon · 04/06/2020 11:13

Yes, quite so - though I'd always call groundsel a weed if it appeared anywhere in my garden, whereas the red dead nettle would be a flower in parts and a weed in others. I've got a corner at the moment where there's a combination of red campion and buttercups which I may regret leaving but they just look so lovely together that they have a stay of execution.

Bluemoooon · 04/06/2020 13:49

They can be allowed to grow and flower - but don't let them seed if they turn out to be weeds ( a plant in the wrong place), you have a week or so before a flowering weed seeds so no panic.

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