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Any ideas what this is?

  • 18-06-2011 12:59pm
    #1
    kylith
    Registered Users Posts: 17,736 ✭✭✭✭


    There's two of these after coming up in my garden, I don't recognise them, but then I have a terrible memory so I could very well have put them in in a mass bulb planting a few months ago. I know it can be hard to tell if it's not in flower, but if it's an invader I'd like to get it out asap.
    picture.php?albumid=1626&pictureid=9828
    picture.php?albumid=1626&pictureid=9827


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  • #2
    looksee
    Registered Users Posts: 28,018 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Could be a dahlia.


  • #3
    Dizzyblonde
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Politics Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 12,108 CMod ✭✭✭✭Dizzyblonde


    They do look like dahlia leaves all right.


  • #4
    kylith
    Registered Users Posts: 17,736 ✭✭✭✭kylith


    It's possible. I wrote down what I'd planted, but for the life of me I can't find the blooming list. Dahlia sounds familiar, I hope that's what they are, they're a smashing looking flower.


  • #5
    mountainy man
    Registered Users Posts: 981 ✭✭✭mountainy man


    Looks a bit like ground elder to me a terible weed


  • #6
    kylith
    Registered Users Posts: 17,736 ✭✭✭✭kylith


    If it is a dahlia will it flower this year?


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  • #7
    looksee
    Registered Users Posts: 28,018 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Should do. I agree it does look like ground elder, but it has a rather different style of growth. Still if it suddenly pops up loads of shoots then maybe you should reconsider! I still think its a dahlia.


  • #8
    Nonmonotonic
    Registered Users Posts: 422 ✭✭Nonmonotonic


    Must admit the second image made me think of Elder however as looksee says its a different growth pattern (closer to ground).
    Looks like a Dahlia all right ( phew!)


  • #9
    kylith
    Registered Users Posts: 17,736 ✭✭✭✭kylith


    Cheers everyone, hopefully it's a dahlia. A friend of mine has recommended I leave it for a couple of years, and if it's blocking the back door by then it's probably not a dahlia:rolleyes:


  • #10
    kylith
    Registered Users Posts: 17,736 ✭✭✭✭kylith


    picture.php?albumid=1626&pictureid=10189

    This plant is still growing away. It's now about 3' high, hip height. There's no sign of a bud on on yet. My dad said he thinks it's Elder, but I think the leaves are wrong.

    Are ye still saying Dahlia?


  • #11
    mountainy man
    Registered Users Posts: 981 ✭✭✭mountainy man


    Your dad is right:)


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  • #12
    Nonmonotonic
    Registered Users Posts: 422 ✭✭Nonmonotonic


    It WILL flower! :(
    elderberry-bush-in-flower.jpg

    However all is not lost. You can eat and drink it! :)


  • #13
    littlemis
    Registered Users Posts: 430 ✭✭littlemis


    Yes it's elder alright.I grow them for eating,drinking and for medicinal purposes...


  • #14
    kylith
    Registered Users Posts: 17,736 ✭✭✭✭kylith


    Well, feck. Out with the shovel tomorrow so.


  • #15
    looksee
    Registered Users Posts: 28,018 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Yup - its looking a lot less like a dahlia now!


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