Identification Area

We grow this in our garden and I am never quick enough to pick the young stems to then crystallise them. One day maybe I will.

I find that sometimes they are biennial, others they are short lived perennials, so if you like them, let them seed around.

Looks like it was white campion . Thanks everyone

Just a follow up, did a search for double flowered Cardamine pratensis and found photos of similar ones! Result! One to tick off my list, thanks again. I knew someone on this forum would recognise it!

Yes remove whilst it is little. The seeds blow into gardens on the wind on fairy parachutes

Our Cydonia oblonga "Meech's Prolific" flowered last month and hopefully the flowers have been pollinated and we get some great harvest as always. We have another one in the orchard but can we remember the variety..... instead of pear shape fruit they are apple shape and also finished flowering...

Sadly not, it was one of my colleagues - but she had a fabulous time and some of the photos she came back with were absolutely incredible! Definitely on my list if I can afford to go on a holiday, for sure.Thank you for such a quick ID too, you never let us down I will pass it along.

Thanks guys. As I suspected, a taxonomic nightmare, so I'll just file as Polygonatum spp. @Silver surfer. I knew that there were a multitude of species, but never realised that they were so varied. Thanks for the link.

Thanks @Pete8 that does look like the one!

The upright varieties are less of a pest than the horizontal ones, which smoother everything in their path. And the birds and the bees are definitely fans.

@Mrs Hilliard I think it might well be that. Very floppy as you say and I failed to get the hazel twig corral in place so reduced to canes and string which is a bit unsightly. The patch is about 2x2 feet so may divide it later on.

For weeds with inaccessible roots and other plants nearby, I have occasionally used a large fizzy drink bottle with the bottom cut off, pop it over the weed stuffing as much of the leaves as possible inside, spray through the bottle neck. The best were some 3l (I think) pepsi bottles that OH had...