ID my weed please!

[TheSpottedZebra]

Yes, I know, a weed is just a plant in a place you don't want it...

These are in a redundant bed, enthusiastically fertilised by the pigeons. So please excuse the mess!

It's the fluffy leafy things.

Need a pic!

Pics here. I don't even know if they're the same! They're similar.
I've been tolerating them until they grew enough for me to ID, but I have lost patience.

Also in the bed is some very lazy prunings/cuttings of dogwood and forsythia, a few of those ridiculous mini roses that you get given in twee baskets and an old snapdragon. And some of my ubiquitous nigella seedlings. And, er, some tidying up that I need to do.

Hah, I know! Half my message vanished when i hit post!

I feel like they're biennial and about to do something really exciting which is why they've lived until today.

Isn’t that a ragwort rosette?

Looks like Ragwort to me, it’s a poisonous one but will flower at some point I think so up to you if you want to keep it.

Ragwort
Nope, not for me. Even for the pretty moths.

Googling images of ragwort and it looks EXACTLY like my fluffies!
I only recognise the flower of ragwort, not the leaves.

Green bin it is for them then.

Thanks!

Those stupid teeny roses will often grow into lovely big plants when planted out and mulched. I have one that's now 8 feet tall and covers a shed with hundreds of small roses all summer.

If you can leave a ragwort of two, it will do no harm to anything and might attract the prettiest moth in the UK, the Cinnabar.

It gets a bad name, undeservedly so. It's only a danger if cut with other grasses, dried and bundled in hay bales. As a plant, grazers just ignore it entirely.

I wouldn't have realised it was ragwort either! I'm impressed!