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Plant & Weed ID Megathread

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  • #3902
    The Continental Op
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,741 ✭✭✭The Continental Op


    OK so I think I'm getting there. Currently looking up Lycium spp. They are relatives of the Solanums.

    Wake me up when it's all over.



  • #3903
    The Continental Op
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124348947#Comment_124348947

    Thinks you might have it. Its a Lycium and they do have thorns.

    Edit> https://futureforests.ie/products/goji-berry and some useful pictures here

    Wake me up when it's all over.



  • #3904
    Hobby farmer
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    Yep I reckon ye have it!! Delighted i let it grow now



  • #3905
    New Home
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    I read it's very invasive, so if that's what it is you'd need to keep it in check.



  • #3906
    Hobby farmer
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    Yeah it definitely does it's best to spread alright. I have to check it regularly



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  • #3907
    Thargor
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    Damn everyones garden seems to be waking up way earlier than mine!

    Post edited by Thargor on


  • #3908
    The Continental Op
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124350356#Comment_124350356

    Are you in a frost hollow? Low area of land with surrounding higher ground where frost drops into and stays longer.

    We are in a valley and from the cars temperature sensor it often shows up to 4 degrees centigrade lower than the surrounding higher ground.

    Early in the year we are 2 weeks behind everyone else. We are catching up now and only about a week behind.

    Don't forget one hard frost could kill all the new growth in "everybones garden".

    Wake me up when it's all over.



  • #3909
    New Home
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124350498#Comment_124350498

    No, I bet Thargor is the Selfish Giant and he banned all children from his garden and closed all the gaps in the boundary walls.



  • #3910
    looksee
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124351046#Comment_124351046

    I loved that story as a kid, still have it in an ancient compendium book, with the little matchgirl and a couple of other favourites.



  • #3911
    New Home
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124351086#Comment_124351086

    If you can get it, this version is sublimely illustrated by P.J. Lynch. I won't lie and say that I bought it for someone else.

    https://www.kennys.ie/childrens-teens/childrens-teenage-fiction-true-stories/oscar-wilde-stories-for-children-oscar-wilde-9780340841716



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  • #3912
    Thargor
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    Absolutely no idea? appeared in 24-48 hours, thought it was a fungus but feels like leaves:

    IMG_20260402_160449.jpg


  • #3913
    New Home
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    Looks like some weird lettuce/radicchio.



  • #3914
    The Continental Op
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    Variegated Hosta?

    Wake me up when it's all over.



  • #3915
    New Home
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    Google seems to think it's Hosta White Feather.



  • #3916
    magicbastarder
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    hosta wouldn't grow that fast, i'd have thought.



  • #3917
    standardg60
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124359191#Comment_124359191

    Agreed, a fungus of some description I'd have thought. Bark mulch often contains them.



  • #3918
    The Continental Op
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124359191#Comment_124359191

    I've one hosta (‘Empress Wu’) in a sheltered spot that is taller than that already. It did come up very quickly.

    Wake me up when it's all over.



  • #3919
    New Home
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    Well, if you look at the leaf on the right you can see its "veins" and it's been eater by slugs/snails already. That would make me think Hosta, too, aside from google.

    image.png
    Post edited by New Home on


  • #3920
    Macker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 903 ✭✭✭Macker


    I was given this plant but no name , I'd like to know where to plant it ,the main stem is dead ,it was last year's growth but it's throwing up red coloured suckers ,I was told it will need space

    20260405_122316.jpg


  • #3921
    looksee
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    I have what I think is one of those at about the same stage of growth. I think its a loosestrife or something similar, tall spires of small purple flowers. I tend to get a bit mixed up with all those salvia/loosestrife/purple whatevers.



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  • #3922
    The Continental Op
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    Purple loosestrife. Its a plant I hate. Nice looking plant but seeds all over and my wife loves it and hates me digging it out. She can have all the plants that grow in the middle of the beds but the ones at the front go. (pic from web)

    image.png

    Wake me up when it's all over.



  • #3923
    magicbastarder
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124365129#Comment_124365129

    And rosebay willowherb...



  • #3924
    Macker
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124365129#Comment_124365129

    Thanks for that ,I've never seen it in flower but looks nice



  • #3925
    paddylonglegs
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    IMG_6649.jpeg

    Took a walk around Belfast botanic gardens after a work trip there on Friday. These were planted in a shady area, they look really great. Any ID on them?



  • #3926
    The Continental Op
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    Its an Erythronium - Dog Tooth Violet

    Probably Erythronium Pagoda

    If you have the right conditions they are fairly easy to grow but they like woodland conditions with a really good mulch.

    Wake me up when it's all over.



  • #3927
    Thargor
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124359246#Comment_124359246

    Oh yeah forgot I asked about this, thanks all.

    Yeah seems to be a Hosta alright, got back from 3 days away and its gone way more leafy than fungus-y, and a little brother has sprang up beside it. Happy with that, free plants, and the white leaves will distract from all the weeds growing in that bed.

    IMG_20260403_162207.jpg


  • #3928
    Thargor
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    Is this a foxglove does anyone think? Was going to pull it but if its a foxglove Ill leave it:

    IMG_20260405_171645.jpg


  • #3929
    The Continental Op
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    Oh Dear :-( My guess is that is a wild flower but not one I'd want :-)

    I have the name on my phone as I always forget it. Its Figwort, Scrophularia nodusa.

    Good news if you want wild flowers you'll never get rid of it.

    Edit> Double checked and I was almost there. Picked the wrong Scrophularia. As I suspect that is the one I have growing all down the river bank Scrophularia auriculata, water figwort.

    Wake me up when it's all over.



  • #3930
    Thargor
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    Ah right thanks, yeah not the prettiest flower I ever heard of alright 😅

    Ah well, thats where I dump random twigs and other rubbish so Ill leave it for the bees anyway.

    Bought 30 foxgloves in Lidl today and will plant them out tomorrow in random spots, Ive given up on trying to seed them around the place, nothing seems to take.



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  • #3931
    The Continental Op
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124366193#Comment_124366193

    Foliage also stinks when you pull it and it attracts wasps as pollinators by creating a rotting flesh odor although I have to admit I've never noticed.

    If left to go to seed then it produces hundreds of thousands of seeds which can remain viable in the soil for 5 years.

    Wake me up when it's all over.



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