Plant & Weed ID Megathread

Yes that's it. Perfect time for trimming/pruning them now just as the flowering finishes. Then you leave them alone for the rest of the year to let them flower next Winter.

OK, I know its an aloe Vera of some sort, any ideas on how to rejuvenate it? It's a bit sad.

Stand it in some water to give the roots a good soak for half an hour, then repot. Don't overwater but it does need an occasional drink.

Common sow thistle and common dock.

Just to rub it in you also have Cleavers (Goose grass), and oxalis in those pictures ;-)

Thanks to all for advice. What a difference in just a week.

I reckon may have been too humid and not enough light in daughters bedroom. In kitchen now near window in strong but not direct sunlight

Thanks again.

I planted bluebells! But can’t figure out now what I planted and what’s a weed!

Yes it could be ornamental grass, the difference is sometimes a bit subtle.

You seem to have a nice crop of bindweed starting too, as you are digging around if you come across white roots venturing forth they are either bindweed or scutch, neither of which you want. Those bright green roundish little leaves, sometimes with a bit of a curly shoot are bindweed. Its the roots you need to get out carefully, try not to break them and get every bit you can.

The cleavers is the stuff like ribs of an umbrella in the first pic. Easy to pull up and not inclined to send out roots particularly but will go mad as the season progresses. The oxalis is the stuff like shamrock.

No its celandine - but in my garden I consider it a weed. It is however a welcome spring yellow flowed plant in the wild areas of my garden.

Yep it's not bindweed thankfully.

Yep they're the cleavers, start with the easy ones!

The dock and the Oxalis will need careful and deep forking to remove all the root, the dock will be at least a foot down.

If you have scutch you need to be super vigilant about removing it entirely as soon as it pokes up as looksee said. It will spread by rhizomes underground, and if you're not careful you will displace the bulbs as you pull up a plant, causing even more to grow. If there's a big patch I would just remove as much soil as possible and replace as it is much easier. If a small amount use a tool like a dandelion weeder to remove the entire stalk from below (don't pull from above). You can eradicate it from a contained area though. I managed to remove it entirely from a really huge raised bed spanning the back of my garden infested by it by a combination of the above. I used to go out for half an hour every morning with my dandelion weeder removing anything that was poking up. Nothing has reappeared thus far.

The clumps of grass are scutch

You appear to have it planted directly into a cache-pot, which is a fancy pot designed to hold a plantpot with holes. It will not have any holes in it so it is more difficult to regulate watering - any water that goes in (mostly) stays there. Since it is a succulent you may well get away with it if you do not overwater it, but you have to be careful. Also a lot of cache-pots are not completely waterproof and will mark a surface if you do not put a moisure proof mat under it.

Everyone has moss starting at this time of year. Think you can leave that as a worry for now. If you lightly rake the bare surface with a bit of compost and some grass seed then thats all you really need to do. Weedol will kill the scutch but it will probably kill a good be of grass all around it so best avoided. Then of course keep aerating, do a bit before you cut each time along with slashing at clumps of course grass.