Plant & Weed ID Megathread

A cherry tree with plum rootstock is why I was asking, they have the look of plum leaves

This looks good https://forum.gardenersworld.com/discussion/1033908/plant-identification-plum-damson-or-something-completely-different

Edit> Should have said yes I agree :-)

My guess would be in the same direction and I think it could be a cherry plum (Prunus cerasifera) and I have read these can be prone to forming suckers as well which would match the description.

Happy gardening!

Plum rootstocks - orangepippintrees.com/articles/fruit-tree-advice/rootstocks-for-plum-trees

Looks like Coltsfoot to me http://www.wildflowersofireland.net/plant_detail.php?id_flower=4&Wildflower=Colt%27s-foot Wildflower, I am very envious!

Admire those lovely flowers OP, then when the round leaves emerge, spray them with glyphosate repeatedly.

It will take over your entire garden!

Looks like a brassica of some kind but unsure

Interesting! I was actually thinking the same

It’s literally growing out of a crack in the patio at the base of my parents house…wonder how it got there!

Brassicas flower and seed with great enthusiasm, some years it seems that half the weeds in the garden are brassicas, then other years not so much.

Cool!

Will leave it there so, would be too dangerous to the plant to try dig it out and plant it in the veg patch

Doubtful it’ll get big enough to produce sprouts worth eating but interesting nonetheless

And there is still no actual proof that it causes cancer.

But in the case of most brassica type weeds a dose of a selective weedkiller into the central rosette will easily deal with it. I get a very similar weed Sea Radish all over the garden particular in the lawns and rough grass and it goes over with the slightest whiff of selective weedkiller. Currently I'm using Dicophar which is a mix of 2,4-D, MCPA and Dicamba. For those that love native wildflowers Sea Radish is a short lived perennial (often biannual) which takes over forming massive clumps that in the Autumn die off and decompose producing an unmistakeable smell of rotting cabbage.

I have it in a few spots and never really noticed it spreading much. Lots of dandelions and they spread more rapidly by seed. I just dig dandelions out of flower beds but leave them in the wilder areas.

In fact, there are studies that show it doesn't cause cancer. Hundreds. And here's a systemic review of them that's worth reading.

I can beat you there, first time I would have used it would have been 1979 so 40+ years. Its probably the least toxic herbicide I've ever used. Thats when compared to the Gramoxon and Simazine that I used a lot of at the time. In fact apart from Glyphosate based herbicides nearly every one I used to use has since been banned. Considering the toxicity and long term damage some of them did its not surprising they are no longer on the market.

Nice puff piece, from a blog. Have a look at this comment:

"These results do not show any causal link to anything"

Now, does this remind you of the sort of argument the tobacco industry used to use? And again:

... research ... seems to lead me to the conclusion that glyphosate is “innocent.”

That's not the great endorsement you might have imagined is it?

But I'll trump that with:

"it depends what you mean by “proof”. On the skeptical/Popperian view of science, nothing is ever proven. For classical skeptics (e.g. David Hume), there is simply no proof there to be had; what scientists term “causation” is merely “constant conjunction”. For Popper, there is only failure to disprove,"

However, if by “proof” you mean the generally-accepted standards of medical proof, I'll direct you back to the court cases that brought Montsanto to its knees. In the real world, cases like these function as a huge big red light for most of us. In general parlance, PROOF enough.

Indeed, and I doubt that there has ever been any "proof" that tobacco causes cancer either.

And yes, it's a blog. It doesn't matter how many cases he links to, and I for one do not know whether or not he was paid to write that article.

It looks like an Echium, very tall (2m-ish) with small purple flowers making a solid spike. Just a chance it might be Verbascum which has yellow flowers, but it looks more like a Echium. They are common along the Waterford coast.

FWIW I got some starts last year from a friend with a garden full of them (a walled garden in West Kerry, where the echium have been described as 'day of the triffids' class, huge, glorious when they flower, growing all over like weeds). Two have survived in pots against a wall here despite the occasional ocean squall, one is a few feet high. I plan to repot and move the pots into another area more protected from the endless wind, hopefully they'll get some height on them.

A weird ID question here. Can anyone remember the name of the Amaryllis type HARDY bulbs that the have sold in the past in Lidl. They come in those mixed boxes of bulbs. They might have just been labelled Amaryllis ;-(

Reason I'm asking is I've a huge clump I planted years ago that has never flowered and I'm guessing at what they are. Fairly sure they aren't Crinums as I have them, the bulbs are similar but the foliage is different. Plus the Crinums flower well.

Only need the name as I'm digging up a load and giving some away.

I suspect they might be Hippeastrum x johnsonii - https://www.southernbulbs.com/hardy-amaryllis-bulb-hippeastrum-x-johnsonii/ but as they have never flowered in 20 years I don't know :-)

Thats half a 20 year old clump that started as three smaller bulbs from Lidl. I should have put something there for scale but the one on the right hand is about 15cm across.

If anyone knows how to make them flower other than moving to a warmer climate I'd love to know.

Ours grow well enough plenty of green foliage but never a flower. You might have it about daylength. They are certainly hardy as they must have gone through one winter we had here where it was below zero for two weeks and the ground was frozen down to over 10cm.

You can see from the picture that the bulbs were a good bit above ground and were in full sun. I've replanted some on the ground with a mix of sharp sand and soil supporting them to see if that helps. Others I've just planted in as near perfect conditions as I can find in a neighbours garden. One clump is now by a south facing wall in full sun with decking 3 meters overhead which should help protect from frost.

tbh it would be better if the bl00dy things didn't bulk up outside as well as they do.

I've checked on line and can't find anyone reporting them flowering planted outside in Ireland.

Can anyone please ID these spikey leaved plants, are they to be rescued, weeds or garden flowers?

Thank you! I think you could be right, as there is a tree over the road from the site.