Plant & Weed ID Megathread

Looks like wild violet I think. One of the weeds that gets a free pass in my garden 😀 It can be very vigorous if it is happy.

Any ideas what this is - growing in my “lawn”?!

That’s it alright!

Can anyone tell me what this is? It's grown up through the middle of another plant at lightning speed over the summer.

Oh dear - I hope I haven't left it too late for that. It's looking pretty formidable.

It appears to be creeping buttercup, though its a bit hard to see. It seems most likely. My 'lawn' is about 70% creeping buttercup, I just keep mowing it, its green, what harm? It does tend to creep into all the non-lawn bits of garden though!

You could try using a selective weedkiller for lawns, but its pretty tough stuff and you probably won't have much grass left when it is gone.

I'm note sure what your game is, or how you get amusement from this, but I had no doubts about anything.

#IGNORE.

Me too and I don't remember doing it! 😃

Sorry.

Yes I considered willow, but willow leaves are generally wilty, I had a branch of that stuff in some flowers over Christmas and it lasted at least a month! It seems to have much more robust leaves than willow, and I know a lot of florists' foliage is basically eucalyptus so that was a first thought. Come to think of it though my branch might well have been Parvifolia, I don't recall the leaves were quite the same as NH's sample, they were more pointy.

Whatever it is it would have to be something that could be pollarded pretty much, in order to be able to harvest the huge quantities they would need.

Olive was my first thought. Branch shape looks right. Leafs maybe a bit to round.

I had always been under the impression that pinnate leaves just referred to the pairs of leaves and that the one at the end was a given, I have just looked up imparipinnate and find my impression was wrong!

Lol, google is a great yoke for upping our skillz 😀

Can anyone ID this please. Shrub or small tree. In bloom now. Very fragrant.

I wonder if someone can ID this weed that is growing under and within some climbing rose bushes that I have in my garden - trying to figure out a way to kill it without negatively impacting my rose bushes (which are growing wild and definitely need a good pruning!)

Looks like that to me as well. I find the roots not to be too difficult to dig out once you can avoid the thorns on the stem when you trace them back to where it is growing out of the ground. A loppers can help renove parts of the stem (and some rose branches if needed) to make the base more approachable. Might be a bit more awkward if the roots are knotted in with the rose plant but a trowel or a good garden fork would be the way I'd approach getting it out anyway. A bramble that size would not have a big root in my experience. Just be sure to bury the rose plant roots again if they get exposed by the digging.

Looking for some help with this tree. There are 3 of them, growing together in a remote part of the farm. From what I've seen, there's nothing else like them around the area.

Would like to try to grow some more nearer my house, but need to identify them first. Are they native Irish?

Yes Scots Pine. I was delighted lately to get a present of five potted trees about 45cms tall to plant in a woodland I am developing. Was told they came fro Clare so may be the same you mentioned.

Might be worth seeking self seeded plants near the existing trees.

They have shallow enough root systems, don't plant them too close to the house!

That would be one heck of a tree at 80m!

I've been told this is Wood Sorrel but I don't think so. Anyone got any idea?

100% Anemone and I'd tend towards Anemone Nemorosa - Wood Anemone, because the leaves are sort of bigger on Canadensis.