I grew up with oxalis as a weed, and we called it donkey weed or sweet grass. As kids we used to pick the leaves and chew them. It multiplied rapidly from small white bulbs which turned brown when ripe, and was an absolute menace!
FBTurtle, sorry if I got you worried about your oxalis. I should have said I grew up in Africa, very different climate to here! I have now looked up and learned quite a bit more about oxalis, and I'm sure your one is not the one I knew.
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Looking at the photos I thought that the top photo might be a Geum and the bottom an Oxalis. An amateurs guess.
Is the second one a type of oxalis?
I grew up with oxalis as a weed, and we called it donkey weed or sweet grass. As kids we used to pick the leaves and chew them. It multiplied rapidly from small white bulbs which turned brown when ripe, and was an absolute menace!
But I don' t think this is that one.
I agree, the top one is a geum - it looks like the native one - Water Avens - I have them growing around my wildlife pond.
The bottom one is oxalis
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Ok thanks for replies. Is it bad to have Oxalis in garden then? I think it looks quite nice!
Re oxalis - If you like it then it's a flower - if you don't then it's a weed - they do spread a bit.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
That particular Oxalis is not a thug like O. corniculata. It generally does not seed around.
The Geum could be one called Marmalade. That is a drooping headed orange flowered one.
As Dove says, the Geum does look very like the native water Avens.
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FBTurtle, sorry if I got you worried about your oxalis.
I should have said I grew up in Africa, very different climate to here! I have now looked up and learned quite a bit more about oxalis, and I'm sure your one is not the one I knew.
Agree with you, it is pretty.