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Thanks all. It's not in my garden thank goodness, but a friend of my daughter's. I've got enough problem weeds to deal with, I don't need any more.

That could be my garden. They splash so much water out of the bird bath we have to top it up at least once a day.

Thank you, looks like something I'll be removing later this year.

Great! Doesn't sound too good. Just have to keep digging it out. Sometimes get the weedburner on them if not too near plants but that only kills the part on view not the roots.

of the striatum kind.

Mine is just coming into bloom at the moment.

Many thanks both of you

@Nikolaos Is this a Marmalade Hoverfly?I get a lot of these in my garden. This year they don't seem to be collecting nectar from flowers as much as last year, but last year I grew absolutely loads of Alyssum (Carpet of Snow and Magic Circle Mixed), and this year I tried to keep it in just a...

Thanks both of you

Potentilla reptans...blinking pain.

I'll have to get a proper Geordie to answer that Very off topic, a dear colleague has a real Geordie accent that for some reason totally contradicts with everything I had learnt about English language-we just couldn't get through a sentence about the weather without a lot of confusion. We...

I held off giving pruning advice as I assumed others would know more than me. But for what it's worth I'd prune it back now, taking equal amounts off all round. Best pruned immediately after flowering if possible, so hurry up.

Near here is a similar one ..Fagus sylvatic atropurpurea...common name Copper beech. Normally I hate pruned trees but in a tiny garden this one still fits and does look good. It is a work of art to keep it looking so immaculate. Pic below was taken in February.

Thanks @shiney and @Nikolaos I never remember buying any product called Provado Ultimate Bug Killer. However, the plastic top was in my drawer although had cracked so much as to become unusable. From @Nikolaos's pic, I recall that the lid right hand side (you can see a vertical 'partition' in...

I agree, it's liverwort ... It spreads by spores formed in those starry things. If you look under them you'll probably see flat stems like lobes sprawling on the ground.