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Plant & Weed ID Megathread

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  • Registered Users Posts: 299 ✭✭freewheeler


    Yeah looks like Whitebeam (Sorbus aria)


  • Registered Users Posts: 12,688 ✭✭✭✭Dtp1979


    What is this?


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 76,178 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    A fern, but if you meant what kind, I wouldn't be sure.


  • Registered Users Posts: 180 ✭✭JR79


    Hi

    Can anyone tell me what plant this is thanks


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 76,178 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    I'd say blackcurrant.


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  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 76,178 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Or maybe redcurrant.


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


    JR79 wrote: »
    Hi

    Can anyone tell me what plant this is thanks


    I'd guess it's a flowering currant.




  • Dtp1979 wrote: »
    What is this?

    It is a Male Fern, Dryopteris, possibly D.affinis Scaly Male Fern




  • MeTheMan wrote: »
    This grows along the shore near me every year. Roots smell like celery.

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    This is very likely Hemlock Water Dropwort, sometimes considered the most poisonous of all our native plants. Most frequent on seashores. All parts are poisonous, but reported fatalities have come from eating those visible roots


  • Registered Users Posts: 276 ✭✭countrywoman


    First time to upload a photo, hope it works
    Any idea what weed this is. A number of flowerbeds are overtaken by this. Millions of seeds visible on soil too; it's self seeding
    Thanks


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  • Registered Users Posts: 276 ✭✭countrywoman


    Here it is


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


    Still no pic!


  • Registered Users Posts: 276 ✭✭countrywoman


    Look see, i can upload it


  • Registered Users Posts: 276 ✭✭countrywoman


    It's like a clump of grass. Not deep rooted. Self seeds. Seeds visible on the soil


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 517 ✭✭✭Varta


    JR79 wrote: »
    Hi

    Can anyone tell me what plant this is thanks

    I don't know its name but it's not a currant. I have it growing between the neighbour and me. It makes a very large, dense hedge, that gives great cover for birds. Those pink flowers give off the most beautiful fragrance morning and evening from early spring right through to the end of summer. The fragrance brings me back to my childhood as it reminds me of the smell in the church at benediction. It is incredibly easy to propagate - simply cut a piece off and stick it in the ground.


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


    Why do you say it is not a current? Looks like a currant to me - Ribes Sanguineum. Would be improved by being severely cut back and allowed to grow again to improve the flowers.


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


    It's like a clump of grass. Not deep rooted. Self seeds. Seeds visible on the soil

    Before you post a pic is there a bird feeder above the area?
    A carpet of maize is growing under most bird feeders i've seen recently, the birds don't like them and simply throw the seeds out!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 517 ✭✭✭Varta


    looksee wrote: »
    Why do you say it is not a current? Looks like a currant to me - Ribes Sanguineum. Would be improved by being severely cut back and allowed to grow again to improve the flowers.

    Hi Looksee. I have it growing and it grows like a hedge (as big as a small tree). It may be in the currant family but it doesn't bear fruit. Here it is in close up and from further away. It had about three feet lopped off recently! (trying to upload images)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 517 ✭✭✭Varta


    Here we go.


  • Registered Users Posts: 391 ✭✭barneyrub


    Is this a hydrangea?

    And if so, is it possible to move it this time of year? Path going where it is now


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  • Registered Users Posts: 391 ✭✭barneyrub


    Is this a hydrangea?

    And if so, is it possible to move it this time of year? Path going where it is now


  • Registered Users Posts: 391 ✭✭barneyrub


    And also any idea on this. Has bright red berries in autumn.

    Would it be worth/possible moving it? There's paving going where it is now?
    tx


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 76,178 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Not a hydrangea, perhaps a berberis (the tree-like shrub with red berries, I mean).


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 76,178 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    And yes, the first is a hydrangea. Not sure how much they'd enjoy being moved when they're just about ready to bloom. I'd say it'd be safer to move them when they're dormant, but someone more knowledgeable will clarify soon. :)

    Having said that, if the alternative is to get rid of it altogether, I'd say it's worth trying to save it even if the season isn't the most favourable.


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


    Varta wrote: »
    Hi Looksee. I have it growing and it grows like a hedge (as big as a small tree). It may be in the currant family but it doesn't bear fruit. Here it is in close up and from further away. It had about three feet lopped off recently! (trying to upload images)

    Varta it is flowering currant..Ribes sanguineum.


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


    barneyrub wrote: »
    And also any idea on this. Has bright red berries in autumn.

    Would it be worth/possible moving it? There's paving going where it is now?
    tx

    It's an old cankered cotoneaster, not really worth keeping.
    The hydrangea should be fine being moved as it's quite small, just give it plenty of water once replanted.


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


    Varta, it is rather an exceptionally big specimen, but it is a flowering current. It may have the occasional weedy fruit on it but it is grown for the flowers not fruit.

    Agree about cotoneaster. If you look around you may well find a young one growing somewhere - they can throw seeds around with the same enthusiasm as a sycamore.


  • Registered Users Posts: 391 ✭✭barneyrub


    Thanks everyone.

    Figured it'd be the wrong time of year to look at moving any plant really. The hydrangea will have to come up though but will replant it and just hope for the best....

    Will let the cotoneaster go so. It's always baffled me since we moved in here...it's just plonked in the middle of the garden all on it's own! I guess now it wasn't planted and must have strayed from somewhere....must peek over the neighbours wall!!


  • Registered Users Posts: 180 ✭✭JR79


    Varta wrote: »
    I don't know its name but it's not a currant. I have it growing between the neighbour and me. It makes a very large, dense hedge, that gives great cover for birds. Those pink flowers give off the most beautiful fragrance morning and evening from early spring right through to the end of summer. The fragrance brings me back to my childhood as it reminds me of the smell in the church at benediction. It is incredibly easy to propagate - simply cut a piece off and stick it in the ground.

    Thank you all for your info. Yes this is a hedge grows quite large and has a really strong smell, brings me right back to my grandparents house when I was a kid every time I smell it, that and lifebouy soap!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 517 ✭✭✭Varta


    looksee wrote: »
    Varta, it is rather an exceptionally big specimen, but it is a flowering current. It may have the occasional weedy fruit on it but it is grown for the flowers not fruit.

    Agree about cotoneaster. If you look around you may well find a young one growing somewhere - they can throw seeds around with the same enthusiasm as a sycamore.

    Cheers. Lots of people have asked me what it is and I've never been able to tell them.


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