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Plant ID please
Hi all.
Can anyone please help me identify this plant. I've a couple of them appeared in my borders this year. I've certinly not planted them myself so presume they've seeded from the horse muck I mulched with earlier in the year. They seem to grow to about 3ft tall. Not unattractive but I don't particularly want too many more of them: http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/g...5082009059.jpg http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/g...5082009058.jpg TIA Clive in Kent |
Plant ID please
"Clive Holden @hotmail.com" cliverholdenremove wrote in message ... Hi all. Can anyone please help me identify this plant. I've a couple of them appeared in my borders this year. I've certinly not planted them myself so presume they've seeded from the horse muck I mulched with earlier in the year. They seem to grow to about 3ft tall. Not unattractive but I don't particularly want too many more of them: http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/g...5082009059.jpg http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/g...5082009058.jpg TIA Clive in Kent It looks like one of the Rose Bay Willow Herb types. Attractive in flower, good for wildlike .. atrocious weed in my garden. I'm constantly pulling it out. Spider |
Plant ID please
On 2009-08-06 14:12:24 +0100, "Clive Holden"
said: Hi all. Can anyone please help me identify this plant. I've a couple of them appeared in my borders this year. I've certinly not planted them myself so presume they've seeded from the horse muck I mulched with earlier in the year. They seem to grow to about 3ft tall. Not unattractive but I don't particularly want too many more of them: http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/g...5082009059.jpg http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/g...5082009058.jpg TIA Clive in Kent Rosebay willowherb - seeds madly everywhere. It's good for the Elephant Hawkmoth caterpillar so if you have an area you dare leave it in, it's worth leaving a bit about here and there. -- Sacha www.hillhousenursery.com Shrubs & perennials. Tender & exotics. South Devon |
Plant ID please
In message , Spider
writes "Clive Holden @hotmail.com" cliverholdenremove wrote in message ... Hi all. Can anyone please help me identify this plant. I've a couple of them appeared in my borders this year. I've certinly not planted them myself so presume they've seeded from the horse muck I mulched with earlier in the year. They seem to grow to about 3ft tall. Not unattractive but I don't particularly want too many more of them: http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/g...5082009059.jpg http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/g...5082009058.jpg TIA Clive in Kent It looks like one of the Rose Bay Willow Herb types. Attractive in flower, good for wildlike .. atrocious weed in my garden. I'm constantly pulling it out. Spider Aka the Railway Weed, I believe, because of it's tendency to grow on embankments? -- Gordon H Remove "invalid" to reply |
Plant ID please
"Gordon H" wrote in message ... In message , Spider writes "Clive Holden @hotmail.com" cliverholdenremove wrote in message ... Hi all. Can anyone please help me identify this plant. I've a couple of them appeared in my borders this year. I've certinly not planted them myself so presume they've seeded from the horse muck I mulched with earlier in the year. They seem to grow to about 3ft tall. Not unattractive but I don't particularly want too many more of them: http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/g...5082009059.jpg http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/g...5082009058.jpg TIA Clive in Kent It looks like one of the Rose Bay Willow Herb types. Attractive in flower, good for wildlike .. atrocious weed in my garden. I'm constantly pulling it out. Spider Aka the Railway Weed, I believe, because of it's tendency to grow on embankments? -- Gordon H Remove "invalid" to reply Quite so. :~) Spider |
Plant ID please
"Spider" wrote in message ... "Clive Holden @hotmail.com" cliverholdenremove wrote in message ... Hi all. Can anyone please help me identify this plant. I've a couple of them appeared in my borders this year. I've certinly not planted them myself so presume they've seeded from the horse muck I mulched with earlier in the year. They seem to grow to about 3ft tall. Not unattractive but I don't particularly want too many more of them: http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/g...5082009059.jpg http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/g...5082009058.jpg TIA Clive in Kent It looks like one of the Rose Bay Willow Herb types. Attractive in flower, good for wildlike .. atrocious weed in my garden. I'm constantly pulling it out. Spider It looks to me like Great Willowherb (Epilobium parviflorum) rather than Rosebay (E. angustifolium syn Chamaenerium angustifolium) R. |
Plant ID please
Ragnar writes
"Spider" wrote in message ... "Clive Holden @hotmail.com" cliverholdenremove wrote in message ... Hi all. Can anyone please help me identify this plant. I've a couple of them appeared in my borders this year. I've certinly not planted them myself so presume they've seeded from the horse muck I mulched with earlier in the year. They seem to grow to about 3ft tall. Not unattractive but I don't particularly want too many more of them: http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/g...5082009059.jpg http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/g...5082009058.jpg TIA Clive in Kent It looks like one of the Rose Bay Willow Herb types. Attractive in flower, good for wildlike .. atrocious weed in my garden. I'm constantly pulling it out. Spider It looks to me like Great Willowherb (Epilobium parviflorum) rather than Rosebay (E. angustifolium syn Chamaenerium angustifolium) Yes, you're right. It's not rose-bay, which has all its flowers in a single spike at the top. It's great willowherb -- Kay |
Plant ID please
In message , Ragnar
writes "Spider" wrote in message ... "Clive Holden @hotmail.com" cliverholdenremove wrote in message ... Hi all. Can anyone please help me identify this plant. I've a couple of them appeared in my borders this year. I've certinly not planted them myself so presume they've seeded from the horse muck I mulched with earlier in the year. They seem to grow to about 3ft tall. Not unattractive but I don't particularly want too many more of them: http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/g...5082009059.jpg http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/g...5082009058.jpg TIA Clive in Kent It looks like one of the Rose Bay Willow Herb types. Attractive in flower, good for wildlike .. atrocious weed in my garden. I'm constantly pulling it out. Spider It looks to me like Great Willowherb (Epilobium parviflorum) rather than Rosebay (E. angustifolium syn Chamaenerium angustifolium) R. Great willowherb - yes. Epilobium parviflorum - no. The latter is hoary willowherb; great willowherb is Epilobium hirsutum. -- Stewart Robert Hinsley |
Plant ID please
On Thu, 6 Aug 2009 16:05:16 +0100, Gordon H
wrote: In message , Spider writes "Clive Holden @hotmail.com" cliverholdenremove wrote in message ... Hi all. Can anyone please help me identify this plant. I've a couple of them appeared in my borders this year. I've certinly not planted them myself so presume they've seeded from the horse muck I mulched with earlier in the year. They seem to grow to about 3ft tall. Not unattractive but I don't particularly want too many more of them: http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/g...5082009059.jpg http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/g...5082009058.jpg TIA Clive in Kent It looks like one of the Rose Bay Willow Herb types. Attractive in flower, good for wildlike .. atrocious weed in my garden. I'm constantly pulling it out. Spider Aka the Railway Weed, I believe, because of it's tendency to grow on embankments? Also known as fire weed, because it grew readily on bomb sites after the war. A pretty sight but a pretty big nuisance ever since. Pam in Bristol |
Plant ID please
"Stewart Robert Hinsley" wrote in message ... In message , Ragnar writes "Spider" wrote in message ... "Clive Holden @hotmail.com" cliverholdenremove wrote in message ... Hi all. Can anyone please help me identify this plant. I've a couple of them appeared in my borders this year. I've certinly not planted them myself so presume they've seeded from the horse muck I mulched with earlier in the year. They seem to grow to about 3ft tall. Not unattractive but I don't particularly want too many more of them: http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/g...5082009059.jpg http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/g...5082009058.jpg TIA Clive in Kent It looks like one of the Rose Bay Willow Herb types. Attractive in flower, good for wildlike .. atrocious weed in my garden. I'm constantly pulling it out. Spider It looks to me like Great Willowherb (Epilobium parviflorum) rather than Rosebay (E. angustifolium syn Chamaenerium angustifolium) R. Great willowherb - yes. Epilobium parviflorum - no. The latter is hoary willowherb; great willowherb is Epilobium hirsutum. -- As a small footnote: Epilobium angustifolium (fireweed) is the provincial flower of Yukon Territory in Canada, 'cos there's such a lot of it. (Well, they had to pick something...) There's masses of some tall Epilobium growing down alongside the roads around the Somerset Levels. They look lovely. someone |
Plant ID please
In message , Pam Moore
writes On Thu, 6 Aug 2009 16:05:16 +0100, Gordon H wrote: Aka the Railway Weed, I believe, because of it's tendency to grow on embankments? Also known as fire weed, because it grew readily on bomb sites after the war. A pretty sight but a pretty big nuisance ever since. Pam in Bristol Ah yes, I remember! Strokes beard -- Gordon H Remove "invalid" to reply |
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