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angie

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Is this a weed or not ?
« on: August 06, 2010, 07:43:03 PM »
Hi everyone I have this plant seeded all over my garden I think its maybe is a weed... but before I pull it all out I thought I would ask the experts.

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Re: Is this a weed or not ?
« Reply #1 on: August 06, 2010, 07:46:41 PM »
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOps I forgot the picture :-[
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Re: Is this a weed or not ?
« Reply #2 on: August 06, 2010, 08:05:38 PM »
I wonder if it might be a euphorbia? Have you one in the garden? E. mellifera, perhaps?

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Hans J

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Re: Is this a weed or not ?
« Reply #3 on: August 06, 2010, 08:18:30 PM »
Angie ,

I suppose it is Euphorbia amygdaloides v.robbiae ....

it is a nice plant !
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Re: Is this a weed or not ?
« Reply #4 on: August 06, 2010, 09:37:28 PM »
Hi,  I have a few Euphorbias in the garden and this is what I thought it might be...but what makes me think its not a Euphorbia is that when you break the leaf there is no white sap. There are hundreds of these all over my garden. maybe there isn't sap there because its only a seedling ?
I bet its some ugly weed :'(
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Re: Is this a weed or not ?
« Reply #5 on: August 06, 2010, 09:43:43 PM »
Angie ,

if this has not the typical white milk like all Euphorbia so it must be something other ....
sorry but I can not help

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Re: Is this a weed or not ?
« Reply #6 on: August 06, 2010, 09:53:08 PM »
Thanks Hans for the help. I see you are still having lovely weather over there, please can you post some over.

Angie :)
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Re: Is this a weed or not ?
« Reply #7 on: August 06, 2010, 10:34:14 PM »
Perhaps Lychnis coronaria ? but its foliage is greyer  ::)
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Re: Is this a weed or not ?
« Reply #8 on: August 07, 2010, 08:54:19 AM »
Quote from: fleurbleue on August 06, 2010, 10:34:14 PM
Perhaps Lychnis coronaria ? but its foliage is greyer  ::)

No its not this as you say the foliage of Lychnis coronaria is greyer...this I have seeded everywhere but I do like this bright flower.

Thanks, I will maybe just pot some up and wait and see.

Angie :)
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Re: Is this a weed or not ?
« Reply #9 on: August 07, 2010, 09:07:38 AM »
A Centaurea ?  ::)
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Re: Is this a weed or not ?
« Reply #10 on: August 07, 2010, 10:17:32 AM »
Can you show a photo of one growing in the ground?
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Re: Is this a weed or not ?
« Reply #11 on: August 07, 2010, 10:32:20 AM »
Angie, when it is seeding around it might come from some neighbor garden and could be Silene armeria.
We had it once and I remember that the young plants looked similar.
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Re: Is this a weed or not ?
« Reply #12 on: August 07, 2010, 01:05:03 PM »
I have googled Lychnis coronaria I don't have this in the garden but like you said it might have come from elsewhere. I don't have any houses close to be but one of the woods behind us was felled and everything seems to have seeded itself there except of course this plant that I want to identify.

I have pulled out loads this morning but I cant throw any plants out until I see what it is...don't tell anyone but I have even potted up a plant which ended up just being some sort of strong grass :-[ I have now ten pots of ?

Angie :)

Oh here are some that are tucked away in a corner...so I will leave these.
Sorry pictures aren't very good.
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Re: Is this a weed or not ?
« Reply #13 on: August 07, 2010, 03:02:01 PM »
Looks very similar to Dianthus armeria - spent ages weeding a bed where it had seeded itself at will just the other day...
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Re: Is this a weed or not ?
« Reply #14 on: August 07, 2010, 05:55:25 PM »
What about Linaria vulgaris  ? ? ?

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