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  • 21-05-2016 3:14pm
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    goose06
    Registered Users Posts: 742 ✭✭✭


    Any ideas what this is

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    iLikeWaffles
    Registered Users Posts: 4,325 ✭✭✭iLikeWaffles


    Could be wrong but looks like Pale Smartweed, Pale Persicaria identified from this page http://www.gardenwithoutdoors.org.uk/weed_guide
    Have them in my garden too they go to seed the same way dandelions do.


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    Rancid
    Registered Users Posts: 1,434 ✭✭✭Rancid


    One of the Willowherbs.. ?


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    _Brian
    Registered Users Posts: 18,517 ✭✭✭✭_Brian


    Willowherb.


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    goose06
    Registered Users Posts: 742 ✭✭✭goose06


    Thanks everyone I'll dig it up so and keep an eye out for more of it popping up.


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    the goon
    Registered Users Posts: 456 ✭✭the goon


    I posted about this a few weeks back looking to find out what it was. Have it in my back garden. Since then I have noticed it all round the town I live in. I never noticed it prior to this year, is it very common?


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    highdef
    Registered Users Posts: 6,186 ✭✭✭highdef


    I think I am in the same boat. See my attachment. I am forever pulling these out of the ground in the currently barren parts of my new garden. Note that the leaves are slightly serrated - Would they still be willowherbs?


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    fryup
    Registered Users Posts: 18,069 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    is it native to ireland?


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    Marhay70
    Registered Users Posts: 1,913 ✭✭✭Marhay70


    highdef wrote: »
    I think I am in the same boat. See my attachment. I am forever pulling these out of the ground in the currently barren parts of my new garden. Note that the leaves are slightly serrated - Would they still be willowherbs?

    Yes it's Willowherb, sometimes known as Rosebay. Best controlled in the garden by glyphosate, if thats your thing as it's roots are extensive and it can be difficult to weed out of flower beds etc. it breaks easily. It is more often found in waste ground as extensive cultivation keeps it in check.


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    fryup
    Registered Users Posts: 18,069 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    Whats the best on the shelf weedkiller for Willowherb ??

    and while i'm at it whats the best weedkiller for...sticky willy (Galium aparine)


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