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Weed ID

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  • 30-09-2018 10:06am
    #1
    Live at Three
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    Scary looking thing....


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    #2
    Live at Three
    Registered Users Posts: 300 ✭✭Live at Three


    Another pic


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    looksee
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    Is it some sort of a euphorbia? Looks more like a garden escapee than a conventional weed, though it looks a bit familiar.


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    New Home
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    Euphorbia Lathyris

    https://www.victoriananursery.co.uk/Mole_Plant/

    Be careful with its sap, like with all euphorbias it can be caustic.


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    Live at Three
    Registered Users Posts: 300 ✭✭Live at Three


    That's it exactly! Yes I think it's an attractive looking plant. I have 3 or 4 along a boundary.

    I think I'll transplant it to a border...was reluctant to kill the few I did.

    Thanks


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    seagull
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    Although that is a willowherb right next to it.


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    fryup
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    while we're at it, what this....

    weed3.jpg


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    New Home
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    Looks like aquilegia (aka columbine).


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    looksee
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    New Home wrote: »
    Looks like aquilegia (aka columbine).

    and definitely a weed. A pretty weed, but still.


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    #10
    New Home
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    NOOOOOooo!!!! It's a pretty, pretty flower! :)


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    lottpaul
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    New Home wrote: »
    NOOOOOooo!!!! It's a pretty, pretty flower! :)


    Agreed - sometimes called Grannys Bonnet - but they do seed all over the place and you need to keep some control over them! A bit like Forgetmenot - if you have them once you'll have them forever.

    Always find that they attract a lot of greenfly too. Not sure if that means there are extra greenfly or if they all head straight to the aquilegeas and leave everything else alone.....


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    twignme
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    I always call those Grandmother’s Bonnets. Love them.


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    #13
    fryup
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    ^^^^^^^^^^^

    how can you love a weed?


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    New Home
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    This is why.


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    twignme
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    fryup wrote: »
    ^^^^^^^^^^^

    how can you love a weed?

    A weed is just a flower growing in the wrong place.


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    Lumen
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    twignme wrote: »
    A weed is just a flower growing in the wrong place.

    Please come to my garden and pick all of the bindflowers. Thanks.


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    twignme
    Registered Users Posts: 344 ✭✭twignme


    Lumen wrote: »
    Please come to my garden and pick all of the bindflowers. Thanks.

    I will swap you for some of my mare’s tail:D


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