Flower or weed - can anyone tell?

ionapaul

I had planted a wide variety of flower seeds and bulbs over the last year, and originally thought this was a flower - but is so big and the flowers are so small I'm now thinking this is a weed. Any thoughts?

magicbastarder

it's a willowherb of some description. and it is a flower, often considered a weed also.

Hocus Focus

A weed is just a plant in a place where it's not wanted.

Day Lewin

Common willowherb. Very common and seeds everywhere. IIt over-winters asa rootless bud which you may find in spring.
The seedlings will come up in all your flower-pots, etc, but they are easy enough to pull up. This classifies it as a "weed" in your garden, and most gardens: though there is no precise definition of "a weed" - it only means a plant making a nuisance of itself in the wrong place

Dotgos

Hi,
That looks like Joe pie weed,very prolific and needs to be pulled up.you will find it very easy to pull.i had the same disappointment last year

lk67

Joe Pye Weed is not common in Ireland unless sown for ornamental value, and looks nothing like this Willow Herb...