Plant & Weed ID Megathread

tDw6u1bj · 23-06-2021 4:08pm

Controlling the few plants that can so easily cause an accident in your garden will have negligible effect on biodiversity.

tromtipp wrote: »

Or 105, depending on your genes and your luck. Biodiversity supports human health as well as planetary health.

I don't think you got the point I was making about average life-spans.
The huge number of people who made it to the grand old age of "died in childbirth" would also be safe from hogweed.

All I'm saying is that it's silly to base your actions on nostalgia.

tromtipp · 23-06-2021 4:55pm

Gardens are important for biodiversity, and concern for that isn't based on nostalgia. Removing every minor risk from the world is impossible. Herbicides can be useful for persistent deep rooted weeds like bindweed or ground elder, but using them on something like hogweed with a single taproot is overkill.

Life expectancy at birth was lower in the past mainly because so many died in infancy - once you made it to adulthood you were likely to live into your 70s, despite the risks in childbirth, battle, and infection.

tDw6u1bj · 23-06-2021 5:41pm

tromtipp wrote: »

Gardens are important for biodiversity, and concern for that isn't based on nostalgia. Removing every minor risk from the world is impossible. Herbicides can be useful for persistent deep rooted weeds like bindweed or ground elder, but using them on something like hogweed with a single taproot is overkill.

Biodiversity is extremely important, and to suggest for a single second that
this would make any appreciable difference is disingenuous.

tromtipp wrote: »

Life expectancy at birth was lower in the past mainly because so many died in infancy - once you made it to adulthood you were likely to live into your 70s, despite the risks in childbirth, battle, and infection.

Differences made by a gradual improvements in standards. What was an acceptable and/or unavoidable risk at the time is something totally different to now. People put up with things because they had no choice.

Bill Hook · 23-06-2021 8:57pm

Plenty of hogweed here and it gets strimmed along with everything else. Wear a long sleeved shirt, trousers, gloves and the face protection thing and exercise a bit more caution around hogweed than other vegetation and you should be OK. Had an experience with bad burns from fig tree sap a few years ago in France but they cleared up and left no permanent damage.

looksee · 23-06-2021 9:43pm

My daughter was strimming wearing a long-sleeved high neck shirt and a face mask and some of the sap managed to get to her neck between the shirt collar and the mask, she ended up needing medication and it took weeks for the scars to fade.

Sitric · 24-06-2021 8:23am

Hello all. Do any of you know what this is?

MacDanger · 24-06-2021 8:24am

Sitric wrote: »

Hello all. Do any of you know what this is?

Looks like Rocket that has gone to seed

Sitric · 24-06-2021 8:30am

MacDanger wrote: »

Looks like Rocket that has gone to seed

Thanks very much, I had never seen it before. Petals remind me of moth wings.

Kewreeuss · 27-06-2021 12:22pm

Would anyone know what this tree is please?
I think it might be a sweet chestnut, but the leaves are a bit soft.

The Continental Op · 27-06-2021 12:35pm

Hickory/Wingnut family if anyone wants to look them up.

27-06-2021 12:36pm

No not a Sweet Chestnut. Looks a lot like a Caucasian Wingnut.

Kewreeuss · 27-06-2021 1:20pm

Hi, yes I looked it up.
It’s a caucasion wing nut. It is beautiful at the moment with the very long catkins.
Thank you

dePeatrick · 28-06-2021 9:36pm

Sitric wrote: »

Thanks very much, I had never seen it before. Petals remind me of moth wings.

Never thought of that and I have them in my garden for years now.

jmreire · 30-06-2021 12:59am

Hi all,
pretty new to gardening, and have a few questions if thats OK? Over the last few years I planted some appletrees, but as I was away a lot, they did not get the attention they needed. Now some of them have a good crop of apples already formed, while others ( the majority) nothing, even the ones that had flowers earlier on. Not much I can do this year, I suppose, but for next year, some advice would be appreciated.
And one more thing, I also have some cherry bushs which have deleloped a wart like growth on its leaves, as can be seen in the pic. Some advice please on what it is, and how to treat it?

New Home · 30-06-2021 1:36am

Welcome jmreire.

First of all, those are not cherry leaves. Second, those are galls, they can be caused by a lot of different things, from insects to viruses, how you treat them depends on the cause.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gall

I'm afraid I can't help you with your apple trees, but if you post some pictures someone else might be able to.

looksee · 30-06-2021 1:10pm

That looks more like a current bush, and the red blisters are quite common, I think they are caused by aphids but they are not particularly harmful to the bush.

Macker · 01-07-2021 4:40pm

Got this in the post ,it lost its label

looksee · 01-07-2021 5:35pm

My first thought would be Heuchera - Coral Bells.

Macker · 01-07-2021 9:46pm

looksee wrote: »

My first thought would be Heuchera - Coral Bells.

could be but as Ive no flowers yet and there seems to be lots of varieties its hard to tell but thanks

looksee · 01-07-2021 10:54pm

There is one that sounds like a dessert, it might be that

I'll see if I can find it.

Edit - I had no idea how many heucheras have edible sounding names! I have no idea tbh, though they are one plant that you would identify more readily from the leaves than from the flowers.

RebelButtMunch · 05-07-2021 4:43pm

looksee wrote: »

Several teasels have introduced themselves onto a very inhospitable bank of no soil beyond sandy shale, and in complete shade from the house. I am waiting with some eagerness to be sure that's what they are (I'm pretty sure, the leaves are exactly right and they do the water-pool thing which is very intriguing) and I will add them to the fairly blank area on the bio map.

Teasel is going strong in the garden. It must be 6feet high at this stage and has a good few flower heads waiting to bloom. It's an impressive yoke

looksee · 05-07-2021 5:47pm

My ones in the bank have suddenly shot up over 6 ft with lots of flower heads but a sparser amount of leaves. Another group up the garden in much better soil are lush with masses of leaves and about the same amount of flowers as the others. That lot are probably taller, must measure them. Also a Verbascum/Mullein has introduced itself in a quite unsuitable bank and is going well, while it hasn't started to go up yet, it has huge furry leaves.

The Continental Op · 05-07-2021 5:59pm

RebelButtMunch wrote: »

Teasel is going strong in the garden. It must be 6feet high at this stage and has a good few flower heads waiting to bloom. It's an impressive yoke

Leave as many as you can over the winter as its great to see them with Goldfinches feeding on the seed heads.

Sitric · 06-07-2021 7:59am

Hi, I planted a little bee friendly area, seems to be a hit, I've never seen so many bees. Some of the seeds were random, can anyone identify these two?
Is the first a type of corn flower?

tromtipp · 06-07-2021 8:05am

Cornflower, lavender, candytuft. Very pretty.

thejaguar · 22-07-2021 3:18pm

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Hi,

Wondering can anyone help me ID this , I have a few in my front garden. Some appear to be doing well, others not so well even though they're in the same spot. Not particular fast growing by the looks of things.