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Plant & Weed ID Megathread

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  • Registered Users Posts: 27,902 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    I think it is two different types of ragwort. The one growing is common ragwart, not sure about the other, the leaves seem to be different but its a bit dead looking to know.




  • I'd say both Common Ragwort


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,317 ✭✭✭macraignil


    It could be verbascum nigrum.




    I just bought a verbascum and as New Home was saying the leaves look a bit different to the plant in the video clip. I think it is yellow loosestrife as lottpaul and speedsie were suggesting.
    Thanks for the replies.


  • Registered Users Posts: 16 Hughsie75


    I'll take a wild guess at a dahlia, so could be capsid bugs, and spraying with insecticide or soapy water is necessary


    I think you're right with the Dahlia suggestion - i definitely planted 2 types of Dahlia.
    I'll try the soapy water...


    Thanks!!


    Here are some more pix:


  • Hosted Moderators Posts: 18,115 ✭✭✭✭ShiverinEskimo


    Found this hidden in my parents' garden today. Superb colours.

    484511.jpg


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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,162 ✭✭✭Wyldwood


    ^^^^

    Escallonia Gold Brian.


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,107 ✭✭✭standardg60


    Hughsie75 wrote: »
    I think you're right with the Dahlia suggestion - i definitely planted 2 types of Dahlia.
    I'll try the soapy water...


    Thanks!!


    Here are some more pix:

    Capsid bug alright..spray any that you can see aswell as the plant and the compost


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,966 ✭✭✭Be right back


    Anyone know what this is?


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,301 ✭✭✭Speedsie
    ¡arriba, arriba! ¡andale, andale!


    Anyone know what this is?

    Looks like Selfheal, do you have a side on shot?


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,966 ✭✭✭Be right back


    Hope this picture is clear.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,301 ✭✭✭Speedsie
    ¡arriba, arriba! ¡andale, andale!


    Hope this picture is clear.

    Yeah, looks like Selfheal, sort of square hairy stalk. Bees love it, grows in shady, damp part of a lawn.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,274 ✭✭✭MacDanger


    Hope this picture is clear.

    Have that in my garden, it looks kinda like a type of clover but not clover. Lovely wildflower though


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,301 ✭✭✭Speedsie
    ¡arriba, arriba! ¡andale, andale!


    MacDanger wrote: »
    Have that in my garden, it looks kinda like a type of clover but not clover. Lovely wildflower though

    Yes, clover has trefoil leaves (like a shamrock), Selfheal had dagger shaped leaves. Here's a photo with both in it.
    https://imgur.com/a/dAg8kyH


  • Registered Users Posts: 196 ✭✭Granite Head


    Another one I am looking for help on - pink and white flowered perennial.

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  • Registered Users Posts: 27,902 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Bit hard to make out, but I think they could be snapdragons - antirrhinums.


  • Registered Users Posts: 13 itsme2


    Anyone know what this is and how would you go about killing it off. Always a bright green colour, growing in lawn, have tried moss killer but has no affect on it.
    Keeps expanding in area. basically smoothers grass and over takes it.


    Thanks,
    Kev


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,301 ✭✭✭Speedsie
    ¡arriba, arriba! ¡andale, andale!


    itsme2 wrote: »
    Anyone know what this is and how would you go about killing it off. Always a bright green colour, growing in lawn, have tried moss killer but has no affect on it.
    Keeps expanding in area. basically smoothers grass and over takes it.


    Thanks,
    Kev

    Looks like Mind Your Own Business. I'd say a regular broad leaf herbicide would kill it. It's not a moss, so moss killer would have little effect.

    I've tried to get it established before with little luck (wanted something to mimic a moss garden), so I've no experience of it growing at all!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    I was just about to post a photograph of Selfheal for ID - and as with MacDanger I've found it's hard to photograph with a point and shoot camera! I noticed these appearing this evening - here is my attempt.

    2VkSN.jpg

    However I also have this to ID, its about a metre high at this point and is a single example which is odd. Plants tend to come in clusters.

    2VkSS.jpg

    2VkST.jpg


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,317 ✭✭✭macraignil



    However I also have this to ID, its about a metre high at this point and is a single example which is odd. Plants tend to come in clusters.

    2VkSS.jpg

    2VkST.jpg


    Is it a wild oats plant?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    Thanks, looks like it having googled the name. I'll leave it be.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 267 ✭✭coathanger


    Hi, can anyone identify this plant, it has just finished flowering, bright yellow flowers, & now has these pods, wondering can I reuse them some else in the garden. Thanks for your help.


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,107 ✭✭✭standardg60


    coathanger wrote: »
    Hi, can anyone identify this plant, it has just finished flowering, bright yellow flowers, & now has these pods, wondering can I reuse them some else in the garden. Thanks for your help.

    It's a tree peony..some are infertile and won't produce viable seed and most won't be true to the parent plant, but you can read more up on them if you want to give raising from seed a go.


  • Registered Users Posts: 173 ✭✭finla


    Would anyone know what this might be please? It appeared this year and is spreading. It's got purple square stems (on the young growth anyway). Cheers.




  • Looks like Angelica


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,317 ✭✭✭macraignil


    Hi,
    Just made short video clips of two plants in the garden and I am interested in finding out what they are.

    There is one that I planted a few years back but have forgotten what it is. It is about 2 metres tall and sprouts up to flower about this time each year since I planted it. It is not very easy to make out on the green background but it has leaves that are very segmented and it has bunches of small flowers at the end of tall stalks.

    There is also this wild plant that I did not weed out in the spring when tidying up around a newly planted mixed hedge. It has spread fairly quickly to form a thick enough mat and the flowers are tiny. It seems to be more like a weed than a wild flower so if someone can confirm it is not something useful I might remove it to help the common daisy, the gooseberry and the olearia shrub that it is growing around.

    Thanks for any suggestions.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 47,920 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    is the first one yarrow?


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,317 ✭✭✭macraignil


    is the first one yarrow?


    It is similar but the yarrow I have growing elsewhere seems to have thinner leaf segments.




  • The second looks like Lesser Swinecress, Lepidium didymus, no harm in it but most gardeners would consider it a weed


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,317 ✭✭✭macraignil


    The second looks like Lesser Swinecress, Lepidium didymus, no harm in it but most gardeners would consider it a weed


    Looked at the photographs online and it looks like you have identified it alright. Thanks!


    I think I will dig it out since I only just planted the gooseberry cuttings that it is growing over so I want to help them settle in. It's their first year growing there and they wont have a full root system yet so might not be able to compete with the swinecress.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 364 ✭✭Frogeye


    Hi lads. Any idea what this is? There is loads of it around parts of my site and in a ditch recently earthed up.

    Should i be worried!

    Frogeye


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