Identification Area

Don't they squash the bedding plants? I had some nesting in the skimmia...broke the branches flat

I think you are right it is a cinquefoil

We have them, and other species of them, in our garden and we tend to get on very well. They ignore me, even when I speak to them (just like my wife ), and we provide water for bees and wasps. A shallow dish (large plant saucer) with stones and slate at different angles so no matter the...

Thanks for your reply

I loaded the plant app @Texas Pete uses and it came up as Phytolacca americana which we had in Alabama known as Poke Sallet ... so up and away it went in the weed trug. I have never seen it here so some bird must have deposited it as they sit on the guttering above.The Osteo was planted...

I'd go more for gloriosa as there doesn't seem to be, well, filaments hanging off the leaves and yes, spanish dagger

Thanks for the help, much appreciated. I'll return with photos once they bloom.

They look like hawthorn seedlings, although the last time I dug any up was in my parents garden well over 50 years ago.

Just dug it out. When I moved in, this part of the garden had artificial grass is a poor state with assorted weeds - various thorny things and plenty of docks, Briza quaking grass, zantedeschia and all that running riot. Dug it all up. This particular rhizome didn't look like the other...

There is also a green flowered one called O. viridis which I rather like.

Yeah marestail, it pops up in my allotment, everywhere! It's a nightmare

Thank you