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Help to identify plants please
Hello,
We live in Ottawa Canada and we have a couple plants in our yard that my wife feels are flowers, while I think that they are simply good looking weeds :-) If anyone could help identify them we would appreciate it very much. Hopefully the links below will provide images. http://jdmst.freewebspace.com/plant1.jpg http://jdmst.freewebspace.com/garden1.jpg Thanks, John |
Help to identify plants please
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oups.com: Hello, We live in Ottawa Canada and we have a couple plants in our yard that my wife feels are flowers, while I think that they are simply good looking weeds :-) If anyone could help identify them we would appreciate it very much. Hopefully the links below will provide images. http://jdmst.freewebspace.com/plant1.jpg http://jdmst.freewebspace.com/garden1.jpg Thanks, John The second photo (I'm not sure it is the same as the first or not) is Henbit. Highly invasive plant that was introduced as ground cover originally because it covers ground -- FAST. Whether it is a weed or not depends on whether you like it or not. Personally, I've spent many hours this spring removing it from herb beds and I consider it a weed but it can sure look pretty if there's nothing else there. http://ipm.ppws.vt.edu/scott/weed_id/lamam.htm |
Help to identify plants please
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" writes Hello, We live in Ottawa Canada and we have a couple plants in our yard that my wife feels are flowers, while I think that they are simply good looking weeds :-) If anyone could help identify them we would appreciate it very much. Hopefully the links below will provide images. http://jdmst.freewebspace.com/plant1.jpg Some form of Myosotis (forget-me-not). I don't think it's the cultivated form. http://jdmst.freewebspace.com/garden1.jpg If I saw that in the UK I would identify it as Glechoma hederacea (ground ivy) Thanks, John -- Stewart Robert Hinsley |
Help to identify plants please
Stewart Robert Hinsley wrote in
: [..] http://jdmst.freewebspace.com/plant1.jpg Some form of Myosotis (forget-me-not). I don't think it's the cultivated form. Yep! I agree! It was sort of hanging around the edges of my tired mind but I couldn't quite place it. http://jdmst.freewebspace.com/garden1.jpg If I saw that in the UK I would identify it as Glechoma hederacea (ground ivy) It's Lamium amplexicaule here in the States but still a ground ivy. |
Help to identify plants please
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writes Stewart Robert Hinsley wrote in : [..] http://jdmst.freewebspace.com/plant1.jpg Some form of Myosotis (forget-me-not). I don't think it's the cultivated form. Yep! I agree! It was sort of hanging around the edges of my tired mind but I couldn't quite place it. http://jdmst.freewebspace.com/garden1.jpg If I saw that in the UK I would identify it as Glechoma hederacea (ground ivy) It's Lamium amplexicaule here in the States but still a ground ivy. Now that it's been mentioned I'd think that I'd agree with Lamium amplexicaule. That's absent, or at best scarce, in my part of the UK, so I don't immediately recognise it. -- Stewart Robert Hinsley |
Help to identify plants please
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: In message , FragileWarrior writes Stewart Robert Hinsley wrote in : [..] http://jdmst.freewebspace.com/plant1.jpg Some form of Myosotis (forget-me-not). I don't think it's the cultivated form. Yep! I agree! It was sort of hanging around the edges of my tired mind but I couldn't quite place it. http://jdmst.freewebspace.com/garden1.jpg If I saw that in the UK I would identify it as Glechoma hederacea (ground ivy) It's Lamium amplexicaule here in the States but still a ground ivy. Now that it's been mentioned I'd think that I'd agree with Lamium amplexicaule. That's absent, or at best scarce, in my part of the UK, Lucky you. so I don't immediately recognise it. What a few metric tons of it? I'll pay postage. |
Help to identify plants please
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... " wrote in oups.com: Hello, We live in Ottawa Canada and we have a couple plants in our yard that my wife feels are flowers, while I think that they are simply good looking weeds :-) If anyone could help identify them we would appreciate it very much. Hopefully the links below will provide images. http://jdmst.freewebspace.com/plant1.jpg http://jdmst.freewebspace.com/garden1.jpg Thanks, John The second photo (I'm not sure it is the same as the first or not) is Henbit. Highly invasive plant that was introduced as ground cover originally because it covers ground -- FAST. Whether it is a weed or not depends on whether you like it or not. Personally, I've spent many hours this spring removing it from herb beds and I consider it a weed but it can sure look pretty if there's nothing else there. http://ipm.ppws.vt.edu/scott/weed_id/lamam.htm Yes, Lamium is a royal pain. -- Travis in Shoreline Washington |
Help to identify plants please
wrote in message oups.com... Hello, We live in Ottawa Canada and we have a couple plants in our yard that my wife feels are flowers, while I think that they are simply good looking weeds :-) If anyone could help identify them we would appreciate it very much. Hopefully the links below will provide images. http://jdmst.freewebspace.com/plant1.jpg http://jdmst.freewebspace.com/garden1.jpg Thanks, John The plants in the first photo are forget-me-nots. I grow them as a flower, but they self seed all over the place and can take on weed status very quickly. Just pull any you don't want! The second I have growing in my flower beds too (Hamilton, ON). I consider it a weed and is one I will never be rid of :-( It is incredibly invasive. Jacqui |
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