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Plant identification

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youdontnome · 23/04/2024 11:45

Hey, can anybody tell me what this is? It's growing in a lot of my pots so I'm guessing weed/wildflower.
Thanks in advance.

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neverknowinglyunreasonable · 23/04/2024 11:45

Daffodil

Fizzadora · 23/04/2024 11:48

Is it green?

youdontnome · 23/04/2024 12:00

Thank you for your help 😂
I'll try with a photo now. Apologies, it keeps loading it the wrong way up 😳

Plant identification
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MereDintofPandiculation · 23/04/2024 15:53

Epilobium, willowherb. Seeds around easily and spreads by runners., small pale pink flowers.

TerfTalking · 23/04/2024 15:55

I always pull these up, appear randomly in the garden along with dandelions and clover. I assumed they were weeds. Aren’t they?

catwithflowers · 23/04/2024 15:58

Willowherb is the bane of my (gardening) life. This year it's especially rampant. I'm on a mission to eradicate it 😂

fromaytobe · 23/04/2024 16:00

Oh get rid - pretty flowers but my God they seed EVERYWHERE.

You have been warned...😐

muddyford · 23/04/2024 16:38

Lesser hairy willowherb. Spreads like but very so yank it out asap.

catwithflowers · 23/04/2024 17:28

I can't believe Willowherb seeds are being sold on eBay! Maybe I'm missing a trick here, though I don't think I could knowingly profit from people sowing this weed 😬

CosmosQueen · 23/04/2024 17:32

Sodding willow herb, the bane of my life because our garden backs onto woodland that’s full of it 🤬🤬

SnapdragonToadflax · 23/04/2024 17:37

CosmosQueen · 23/04/2024 17:32

Sodding willow herb, the bane of my life because our garden backs onto woodland that’s full of it 🤬🤬

Same! Bloody everywhere.

If anyone would like some I need to do some weeding in the back border... 😂

MereDintofPandiculation · 24/04/2024 11:23

TerfTalking · 23/04/2024 15:55

I always pull these up, appear randomly in the garden along with dandelions and clover. I assumed they were weeds. Aren’t they?

A weed is simply a plant you don’t want growing where it is. So a grass in a lawn may be very much wanted, but the same grass may be regarded as a weed when it strays into a flower bed. There’s a current thread with people praising Alchemilla mollis, but I regard it as a weed, conversely, Tellima grandiflora, which I grow under my medlar tree, was described as a weed by another poster.

MereDintofPandiculation · 24/04/2024 11:24

muddyford · 23/04/2024 16:38

Lesser hairy willowherb. Spreads like but very so yank it out asap.

Not lesser hairy - it’s not hairy! But one of the small-flowered willowherbs, need to look at the stigma to see which.

youdontnome · 25/04/2024 23:47

Thank you all. Its invaded virtually all of my pots, so I will have to pull it out and start again.

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