Does anyone recognise this plant?

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I scattered some bee bomb type things from the Gower flower company on a bit of banking we’d dug into (onto bare earth). Lots of this has come up. It’s taking over everything. I’ve pulled a lot out. Am I right in thinking it’s not a flower?

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Is there a list of what was in the seed bombs? Might be helpful.

Thanks but I’m not sure it’s any of those. It’s like the coltsfoot but it doesn’t grow so clustered together and it gets so big.

Oh good idea. There might have been, but I haven’t got the packet now. I could google the company. There aren’t any flowers. Otherwise there are just the grass, nettles and thistles that grew on the banking before!

Hollyhock maybe?

This is the contents list

Grandiflora?

I’m not sure. It spread like wildfire and was smothering other bushes I’d planted (small Xmas trees etc).

I’ve left one or two bits to see if it flowers!

Gosh that’s quite a list! I’m not familiar enough with all of them to say. But if there’s a lot of it coming up all over it’s unlikely to be from that seed bomb unless that was the dominant seed and there were handfuls of them?

If you’ve dug over the bank it’s more likely you’ve chopped up the tendrils of something else perhaps, and it’s all taken root?

Are you sure it's not Ivy, I have one that looks like that.

Someone else thought it could be an ivy. I’ve no idea. It’s big leaves (I’ve pulled out two bin bags worth on a 6’ x 6’ plot), the picture is of a new shoot.

We basically dug out 20’ x 3’ of banking and piled the soil either side. I just scattered a few packs of seed bombs on the soil. I did wonder if it was something that was already there, but can’t see anything remotely like it anywhere else on the remaining bank. It’s curious!

That fern type plant that’s on the picture, is it quite tough? It could be mares tail, unfortunately.

I’m not sure. Probably. It’s not actually garden, it’s a banking at the side of a stable yard. I will take another picture later.

A few more photos of both aforementioned plants taken tonight.

Oops sorry posted one twice instead of this

Looks as if it could be Coltsfoot, known as butterbur. Throws up yellow flowers like dandelions. Spreads quickly through underground running roots.

Apparently the rhizomes of Colts foot gran go several metres down. I wonder if when you turned the soil over you unearthed a dormant bit from underneath.

Coltsfoot can*

I see no reason why that isn't coltsfoot. Coltsfoot does not usually grow so clumped as in the photo on the app - it more typically isolated leaves as in OP's photo. It has slightly woolly undersides to the leaves. Coltsfoot is a UK wildflower. It used to be used in cough mixtures hence its scientific name Tussilago (the medical name for whooping cough is Pertussis). The flowers are produced in early spring, before the leaves appear.

Beebumble I've not come across butterbur as a name for coltsfoot (Tussilago farfara) - it's usually applied to Petastites (which doesn't have yellow flowers).

Yes, the fine leaved thing is horsetail (marestail is the name used for a different but similar looking aquatic plant).

Ah yes of course MereDint horsetail, not mares tail, I relied on my memory and should have checked. I’m quite tickled by the equine names of these plants so close to a stable.

Yes it is quite funny that they’ve horsey names!

Yes the leaves do look very like that. I’ll have to see if it flowers.

And it does look like mares tail too. The bank we dug into was part of an old mill pond.

Thank you very much oh wise ones.x

Beebumble I've not come across butterbur as a name for coltsfoot (Tussilago farfara) - it's usually applied to Petastites (which doesn't have yellow flowers).

Butterbur has leaves big enough to wrap your butter in

Info from Wikipedia on Petastites,

Interestingly I just spoke to my father and he said there used to be quite Coltsfoot around the land when he was young but he hasn’t seen it for years. We will see what flowers arrive in spring.

Wild flowers are incredible, the seeds can lay dormant for years! We dug over an old cottage garden once after pulling up concrete path and the following summer had an amazing range of plants and flowers. Caterpillar and pollinator heaven.