Plant & Weed ID Megathread

macraignil

hole in my lovelywall wrote: »

Will be delighted if anyone will identify this plant please?
Thanks.

Is it a variety of pseudowintera colorata (pepper tree)?

New Home

Oooh! A curved ball! macraignil vs. GinSoaked.

diabhail

Moved to a new house with (POTENTIALLY) beautiful garden. I am not a gardener and have lots to learn and to do. Firstly there is an area in a landscaped rear garden. There are a lot of the closer plant in the planting area. I have no idea - is it a plant/flower or a weed?

Hmmmm…..my link to a photo does not seem to show? Attached a file - yay

GinSoaked

New Home wrote: »

Oooh! A curved ball! macraignil vs. GinSoaked.

I've no problem being wrong, it could easily be pseudowintera colorata. From the first set of pictures it was a pure guess but in the second lot of pictures I thought the twigs and leaf form looked very like Pittisporum? But there are alot of similarities between the two that make it a little tricky, both have alternate leaves both have forms with leaves that are rounded at the ends.

tbh I'm about 50/50 on it and wouldn't be betting a lot of money on one or the other.

New Home

diabhail wrote: »

Moved to a new house with (POTENTIALLY) beautiful garden. I am not a gardener and have lots to learn and to do. Firstly there is an area in a landscaped rear garden. There are a lot of the closer plant in the planting area. I have no idea - is it a plant/flower or a weed?

Hmmmm…..my link to a photo does not seem to show?

The smaller one with rounder leaves looks like a euphorbia; the taller one with long, thin leaves looks like a montbretia/crocosmia, but could easily be something else.

GinSoaked

New Home wrote: »

The smaller one with rounder leaves looks like a euphorbia; the taller one with long, thin leaves looks like a montbretia/crocosmia, but could easily be something else.

Alchemilla mollis - both much loved and much hated. My wife loves it I love to kill off all the bl00dy seedlings it produces.

macraignil

GinSoaked wrote: »

I've no problem being wrong, it could easily be pseudowintera colorata. From the first set of pictures it was a pure guess but in the second lot of pictures I thought the twigs and leaf form looked very like Pittisporum? But there are alot of similarities between the two that make it a little tricky, both have alternate leaves both have forms with leaves that are rounded at the ends.

tbh I'm about 50/50 on it and wouldn't be betting a lot of money on one or the other.

I agree there are varieties of pittosporum that look like this as well. Not going to bet any money on this one myself either but I do have a pseudowinteria that I think looks more like the photos so making my guess based on that.

New Home

GinSoaked wrote: »

Alchemilla mollis - both much loved and much hated. My wife loves it I love to kill off all the bl00dy seedlings it produces.

I'm not a fan myself. I bow to your wife's superior knowledge!

hole in my lovelywall

New Home wrote: »

Oooh! A curved ball! macraignil vs. GinSoaked.

Thanks for the suggestions. It could be either, but Pittosporum rings a bell with me, rather than pseudowintera. I’ve no idea why though.

standardg60

hole in my lovelywall wrote: »

Thanks for the suggestions. It could be either, but Pittosporum rings a bell with me, rather than pseudowintera. I’ve no idea why though.

No 50/50 here..Pseudowintera colorata.

looksee

I'd opt for Pittosporum...

standardg60

looksee wrote: »

I'd opt for Pittosporum...

Not a chance

https://www.farmyardnurseries.co.uk/shop/User/Products/MedImg/pseudowintera-colorata-red-leopard-2.jpg

looksee

standardg60 wrote: »

Not a chance

https://www.farmyardnurseries.co.uk/shop/User/Products/MedImg/pseudowintera-colorata-red-leopard-2.jpg

You could well be right. Owing to a convoluted coincidence that is too involved to go into here (and not very interesting) I was under the impression that was Pittosporum, and it looks as though my impression was wrong.

diabhail

Thank you to the previous replies to help me identify the plants. Greatly appreciated.

I have many weeds in my flowerbeds, most are easily googleable, but I would like to find what weed this is - cant find it so far.

Thanks as always.

Reckless Abandonment

willow herb I'd say. Self seeds like mad. But usually easy enough to pull up and keep on top of.

GinSoaked

Reckless Abandonment wrote: »

willow herb I'd say. Self seeds like mad. But usually easy enough to pull up and keep on top of.

Its one of that family but not the big one.

New Home

I'd have thought willowherb, too, tbh. Have you asked your wife, GinSoaked? :P

GinSoaked

New Home wrote: »

I'd have thought willowherb, too, tbh. Have you asked your wife, GinSoaked? :P

No she doesn't like them either but I've grown the white form of Rosebay Willow Herb which isn't a bad plant at the back of a really large herbaceous border.

GinSoaked

Another handy weed reference for seedlings http://www.downgardenservices.org.uk/weedseedgs.htm

New Home

Since we're talking about willow(herb), is this a willow? It's been growing in a growbag for the past 10 years or so, so I'd say it's more like a bonsai.

finla

That looks very like a hawthorn , but very small for 10 years old...

New Home

Oh, absolutely tiny, but it's been in that bag for over 10 years, I'm going to re-pot it soon. TBH, I'd exclude a hawthorn, neither the leaves nor the flowers match, from what I can see (there's a reasonably visible flower on bottom left of the picture) but thanks for the suggestion.

magicbastarder

i'd have said willow on first glance too, but the pic is small.

New Home

Here's a bigger one I've just taken, the leaves are more open than they were then.

macraignil

+1 for willow.

standardg60

same here

standardg60

diabhail wrote: »

Thank you to the previous replies to help me identify the plants. Greatly appreciated.

I have many weeds in my flowerbeds, most are easily googleable, but I would like to find what weed this is - cant find it so far.

Thanks as always.

I wasn't sure you wanted both plants ID'd in your last post (the Alchemilla one).
The grassy one behind it i'd be pretty certain is Hemerocallis.

looksee

NewHome - I would have said hawthorn at first glance of the first pic, but then I enlarged it a bit and it instantly ceased being hawthorn! I have no idea what it is though I do agree it looks a bit willow-ish.

New Home

Thanks folks, I thought it was willow because of the flowers, but it does look a bit odd.

Accidentally

New Home wrote: »

Thanks folks, I thought it was willow because of the flowers, but it does look a bit odd.

Most likely grey willow, going by the leaf shape, but they hybridise easily.