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Old 10-04-2012, 10:27 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
Stewart Robert Hinsley Stewart Robert Hinsley is offline
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Default can someone please id these please

In message , kay
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lfc2dogs;955584 Wrote:
i think iv uploaded the pics, if not im sorry not sure how to do it


pics are a bit out of focus. First glance they look like rosebay, but
the massive underground root suggests perhaps not.


The pics don't seem to have escaped from GardenBanter, but the
description sounded like rosebay. It depends on what he thinks is a
massive root.

The other possibility
is one of the euphorbias - probably Euphorbia griffithsii. It will have
no flowerheads at theis time of year, just shoots, and it spreads by
thick underground roots. If it is that, it's worth keeping - it has
flowers surrounded by showy orange bracts which last for a long time.

If you haven't got other plans for that area, I'd suggest letting at
least some of it grow for another couple of months until it flowers and
you get a firm id.


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