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Plant & Weed ID Megathread

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 356 ✭✭flended12


    In a semi shaded part of garden next to bamboo and some Rose's. The stem appears to be very strong, almost tree like.




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,185 ✭✭✭wildwillow


    It’s an Elder tree. They often self seed thanks to bird droppings. Try digging all the root out and do so ASAP



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,086 ✭✭✭The Continental Op


    Its elder but if your not sure crush the leaves and smell them - smell is best described as unpleasant.

    Wake me up when it's all over.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 356 ✭✭flended12


    Great info, I hope indent regret asking why should I dig it out asap. It is in an awkward spot next to a passage way leading into another garden.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,767 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Just that they are fast growing and not suitable for urban gardens as they are sprawling and not particularly attractive, though they are fine in a hedgerow or a bigger wilder garden.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,185 ✭✭✭wildwillow


    Looksee is correct. In a hedge row they provide flowers and berries and are lovely. If allowed to grow in your garden you will have little else as they will out perform all your ornamental plants. The roots are particularly difficult to remove and the sooner the easier.

    Right plant, right place.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,361 ✭✭✭mojesius


    Can someone please ID these flowers for me? Not sure what they are but they've popped up on edge of our garden. They're a lovely red/burnt orange colour Thanks



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,802 ✭✭✭MacDanger


    Poppies?



  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 77,020 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    100% poppies. The field variety, Papaver Rhoeas.

    http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:306058-2

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,361 ✭✭✭mojesius


    Thank you! I'm a total newbie to gardening so often ask v basic questions here. That article is really helpful. Delighted to have poppies popping up here :)



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,593 ✭✭✭karlitob


    Any ideas what this is? Thanks in advance




  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 77,020 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Bindweed.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,767 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    If it is all over the place (as it is in my garden, but I have been generously leaving it so there is maximum available to spray) try and arrange as much as possible onto bare earth or hard surface then spray it - on a still day - with a systemic weedkiller like roundup. I prefer not to use weedkiller but this is one of the exceptions. If you just pull it up you will leave roots in the soil, masses of them, and it will just grow again. If you use a systemic weedkiller it will take it back right into the roots and kill them, then you can gather up the dead tops and hopefully you will have made a serious dent in the amount you have.

    It takes about two weeks for it to be absorbed then do its work, so don't be disheartened if it looks fine after you have sprayed it. Just wait. Do be careful not to get the spray onto other plants, it doesn't matter about bare earth, it becomes inactive on soil and hard surfaces. However don't walk on the wet spray then walk on the lawn as you will get weedkiller footprints.



  • Registered Users Posts: 194 ✭✭galaxy12


    Can some help name this weed or plant growing between salvias ..




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,509 ✭✭✭Reckless Abandonment




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,185 ✭✭✭wildwillow


    Yes astilbe. Lovely plant.



  • Registered Users Posts: 194 ✭✭galaxy12




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 602 ✭✭✭Holy Diver


    Can anyone tell me what this is?

    it has (had) taken over a corner of the garden growing in long vines and self rooting as it went




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,185 ✭✭✭wildwillow


    I'd say its Lonerica, common name is honeysuckle. Takes a while to establish but the flowers and scent are wonderful. You see it growing in hedgerows.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,767 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Agree about honeysuckle, though vinca is a possibility too. The stems look marginally more like honeysuckle I agree but they would be very similar. Were you holding that branch up? Honeysuckle would be more inclined to grow up and arching whereas vinca would spread and root but stay closer to the ground. Vinca flowers (blue/purple) are gone at this stage but there might be the odd honeysuckle flower still there. Wild honeysuckle can be a bit reluctant to flower - I have a similar corner of tangled honeysuckle and I have not yet seen a flower on it.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,216 ✭✭✭✭Jim_Hodge


    Agree about the flowering, When I planted my hawthorn hedge I put honeysuckle through part of it. I've had about 5 flowers in 35 years. 😪



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,185 ✭✭✭wildwillow


    Honeysuckle can sulk for years and then reward your patience.



  • Registered Users Posts: 2,418 ✭✭✭BluePlanet


    Anyone know what this guy is?

    Perennial, kept its blue flowers throughout the summer.

    I might have to move this one, but would like more of the same.




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,767 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    That's very pretty, I think I have something similar that I grew from mixed seeds, but I don't know what it is called, will wait with interest!

    Edit, is it lithodora, I just remembered I had noted it on an identification attempt. Not absolutely sure I am correct though.



  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 77,020 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Could it be Lithodora? Or a variety of Aubretia, Rock Cress?



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,483 ✭✭✭macraignil


    I would have guessed Lithodora as well.



  • Registered Users Posts: 10 tenterhook


    Does anyone know what this plant is?




  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 77,020 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    It does ring a bell, but I can't quite place it.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,216 ✭✭✭✭Jim_Hodge




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    And one of my id guides gives Flowering Nutmeg as it's name. The berries are unusual, caramel/chocolatey taste, some people hate them, I quite like them.

    It is beginning to be a bit of an invasive problem unfortunately, birds love it. It will pop up in hedgerows, bog edges, wasteground, in one piece of limestone pavement I know it has become dominant over several hundred square metres.



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,786 ✭✭✭Bawnmore


    Is this Japanese Knotweed?





  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,509 ✭✭✭Reckless Abandonment


    Persicaria longiseta by the looks of it, Its knotweed but not japanese. Nothing to worry about.



  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    I'd say it's Redshank, Persicaria maculosa



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,078 ✭✭✭bogman_bass


    Not redshank. Too delicate



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,786 ✭✭✭Bawnmore


    Is it relatively safe to say we've nothing to worry about bad knotweed wise? It looks like both suggestions above in places.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,216 ✭✭✭✭Jim_Hodge


    Oriental Lady's Thumb Knotweed Persicaria longiseta

    An annual weed. No big deal. Just pull it out before it seeds.



  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Is this plant grown in gardens in Ireland?

    I haven't been able to find any records of it growing as a weed/alien in UK or Ireland, although it may be known from Italy, and is a common weed in the US.

    P. maculosa is highly polymorphic.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,216 ✭✭✭✭Jim_Hodge


    I can't imagine anybody planting it nowadays but it was introduced as a cultivated plant.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,767 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    I have Persicaria affinis in my garden - I have a very barren bank to cover and it will do that nicely. If you put it in decent soil though it will take over the garden - as I found in a previous garden. You see it planted on places like roundabouts - it covers a lot of area and looks tidy if not anything special. The affinis has more flowers and on shorter stems than the straggly wild one.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,767 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Can anyone identify these plants please? I was given them as Lily of the Valley, but the leaf is completely wrong. Presumably they are something similar, I did wonder about Leucojum but I think Summer snowflakes are bigger and more robust, the leaf growth is quite grass-like, the green tops of the plants shown are no more than 4 inches high (they have been trimmed down).



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 602 ✭✭✭Holy Diver


    Can someone tell me what this tree is?




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,802 ✭✭✭MacDanger


    Looks like Mountain Ash / Rowan to me?



  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    There is a very frequent variety called Joseph Rock with these yellow berries. Lovely tree.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,483 ✭✭✭macraignil


    I agree it looks like a Mountain ash and the berry colour reminds me of the Joseph rock variety.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 602 ✭✭✭Holy Diver




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 602 ✭✭✭Holy Diver


    Another one - this is popping up all over the place at the moment

    Not sure why my photos keep going on sideways



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 278 ✭✭tiredcity



    Anyone have any ideas what this this? I think it has to be a weed given how quickly it spreads and how it forms an annoying clump with roots that snap when you try dig it out. Leaves are small and heart shaped. Many thanks!



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