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Oliya
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April 2021
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Any idea what any of the following plants are? They are growing on what was a very long ago neglected flowerbed (in communal back garden). Are any of them worth keeping?
Many thanks!
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pitter-patter
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April 2021
1. Galium odoratum
2. Poppies
3.?
4. Lamium
5. Creeping buttercup
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Oliya
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April 2021
pitter-patter
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1. Galium odoratum
2. Poppies
3.?
4. Lamium
5. Creeping buttercup
Great, thank you!
No. 3 looks very much like rocket but it doesn’t smell at all.
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Dovefromabove
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April 2021
I think 1 looks more like Cleavers/goose grass aka Sticky Willy ... Galium aparine rather than Galium odoratum.
https://www.gardenorganic.org.uk/weedy-wednesday-goosegrass-cleavers
4 is Lamium purpurea the Red deadnettle ... a pretty wild plant great for bumblebees
https://www.plantlife.org.uk/uk/discover-wild-plants-nature/plant-fungi-species/red-dead-nettle
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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Oliya
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@Dovefromabove
Thanks!
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fidgetbones
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April 2021
edited April 2021
I think 3 is a giant yellow scabious. Cephalaria gigantea. The poppy look like welsh poppys.
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Buttercupdays
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April 2021
I have hundreds of Welsh poppies. They don't look like that.
Could be another kind of poppy though.
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Oliya
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April 2021
@fidgetbones
thanks for your input.
@Buttercupdays
thanks for letting me know. I’m going to keep it and see what it grows in to:)
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2. Poppies
3.?
4. Lamium
5. Creeping buttercup
No. 3 looks very much like rocket but it doesn’t smell at all.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
@Buttercupdays thanks for letting me know. I’m going to keep it and see what it grows in to:)