Plant/weed ID

I get that a lot too

 

Thanks woo!
Just having a bad few mins...Just old fashioned I guess.
You are right I love a challenge.
Plants I have never seen before I try to id and learn.
The more I learn the more I realise just how little I know!

Little grey cells have trouble remembering the names!

 

4 Smooth sow thistle? Definitely a weed, but easy to pull out.

 

@EnglishmanCFC

The spurge and sow thistles need to be removed as soon as possible as they spread like wild fire. If you've got rabbits or guinea pigs, they go crazy for sow thistles.

Petty spurge/sun spurge etc can easily be pulled out but always wear gloves as they are a type of Euphorbia and are rather poisonous.

In the case of the most common versions of Oxalis, they need to be carefully teased out with a hand fork to remove all the roots and/or bubils. They are pretty resistant to many weedkillers though.... but yours is one that I've never seen before and it is rather stunning.

 

Right, thank you to everyone so far who has helped.

A few of the unknowns have grown, and it's likely A lot are decent plats because I planted loads of bulbs.

1) literally have no idea, it's suddenly shot up 12inches in a couple of days and budded


2) again, I don't know, it's been up in this thread but was no definite identification, similar leaves to lemon verbena but I'm not sure



3) these are peeking from under my dahlia, appeared early this week


4) these appeared in the middle of my Dutch iris last week


5) and this is a weed I assume?


Thank you, you lovely lovely people

 

Pink one looks like a Polygonum

 

5 looks like oil seed rape

 

1 gladiolus (flower)
2 Polgonum/bistort (weed)
3 oxalis (weed, remove or it'll take over, through you may want that!) Its leaves are those clover ones with the splodge in the middle on photo 4
4 Cheerfulness daffodil (flower) out of season
5 cabbage family (weed) oil seed rape etc....you can actually just cook n eat the young leaves like cabbage, but yeah, it's a weed.

 

PAGE 2 PICS.......
1. Gladiolus.
2. Polygonum sp......yes it did have an answer.... ages ago!

See page 1. 14th July....Quote...It is a Polygonum sp.
One of the ones I would class as a weed.

3.Oxalis tetraphylla.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxalis_tetraphylla

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=O...157OAhXWFsAKHRSpBHsQ_AUICCgB&biw=1536&bih=731

4. Look like Freesia...a double flowered one. Should smell divine!

http://www.easytogrowbulbs.com/p-232-freesia-double-white.aspx

5. Brassica of some sort.

 

On second glance, I agree with @Silver surfer re:4. The flat leaves could be freesia and aren't daff/narcissus.

 

I think I've planted bulbs for both 2 and 3. Might regret that. I planted loads of bulbs in two locations and they're in both. Why would a shop sell weeds?

The buttercups may stay as my daughter likes them although the oil seed rape will come up today. Is it better to pull/dig them or dose with glyphosate?

 

1. Gladiolus...yes a bulb.

2. Is a weed.
It is not a bulb.
Probably a gift from the birds.

4. Freesia is a corm that you would have planted.

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=f...ved=0ahUKEwjks6GA2aLOAhVkOMAKHSWIDBcQ_AUICCgB

5. Just pull up the brassica/rape plant. No need for weed killer.

 

If they are easy to pull out just pull'm out, oil seed rape is easy to pull