weedy ID's please
..I might be taking over an allotment and I found these today growing... any idea what they are please? the first ones look as though they form a distinct patch, as if planted deliberately, although that may not be the case...
second is a little yellow flowered plant... I see that here and there on the plot..
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Hi Salino
At that stage of growth and still upright, the umbellifer is likely to be hogweed, Heracleum sphondylium. the yellow one is a lysimachia, yellow loosestrife
..thank you nut, I think I shall be getting rid of them although I see they are edible, as long as they're not the Giant version... I wonder if a previous tenant was growing them to eat..
..I should have known that Lysimachia... thanks again...
The hogweed is easy to get rid of in cultivated soil but a right b....... in the meadow where it was running riot when we got here
That yellow loosestrife can be a right b**** too Salino!
a bit tall and the wrong shape at the top I think potsandpansies
easy enough to tell, carrots and parsnips are biennials, they're over and will pull up at that stage. B........ hogweed won't
..thanks for input everybody... I shall try pull one up and see... quite interesting seeing all these weeds running riot... fortunately, I see only a little bindweed and absolutely no horse tail...which is a relief... only a bit of rosebay willowherb but lots of yellow-y things... some ornamental onions I'd like to save.... but I have to see if they give me this plot... not certain as yet... it can't have been in use for years... there is a lovely wooden pergola in the background which is still in excellent condition.... I want my tea and Victoria sponge under that...!..lol...