Anyone know what this is?

[KeithT]

Calling.....N-E-T-T-Y!!!

 

[Alpineandy]

to my untrained eye it looks very much like a plant..........

 

[Rhinochugger]

For defo - a weed is a plant out of place.

I recognise it - P.I.T.A to get rid :thumbdown:

 

[Mikado]

It looks very like Scarlet Pimernel, a weed or wild flower depending where it grows.

http://www.birdmom.net/WildflowersOrange/PimpernelScarlet5-31-05.jpg < Link To http://www.birdmom.net/Wi...rnelScarlet5-31-05.jpg

Cheers

 

[spike]

The heart shaped leaves look a bit like celandine..

Any flowers????
Scarlet Pimpernel will have redish orange flowers and celandine will be yellow.
Here in West Sussex the celandines are finished as they are normally the first
flowers out in the spring, although I have noticed most of the spring flowers are
late here.

 

[spike]

yikes!
thats big......be interesting to see if it flowers.

 

[garrymartin]

If its growing that fast get rid asap.:thumbdown:

 

[MRail]

....be interesting to see if it flowers.

Presumably if it flowers, it will then seed.....

 

[trammayo]

It is, according to the wife, the Lesser Celandine - spreads like flies round a jampot. Fantastic ground cover though - strangles nearly everything else

 

[Tony]

pretty sure its "mind your own business" i have loads of it i use for ground cover and it loves growing in cracks on mountains etc dont let it near your lawn though or you may never get rid of it ,,,,,, it will have little white flowers in the summer but it spreads via underground roots

 

[peterexmouth]

As Garry says - if it grows that fast then you don't want it. Spray it with Glyphosate. Japanese Knotweed has sort of heart shaped leves, but I don't think it looks quite like that. Try a gardening forum.

Peter

 

[Woderwick]

You might want one of these http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...it-help-weed-garden---need-robot-help-on.html

 

[spike]

If it is celandine......it will disappear after flowering and you won't see it again until next spring.
I have quite a bit in the garden and it fills in bare patches in the spring.

 

[Tony]

Hi Roly is this the stuff if so it is "Mind your own Business"
We use it in Hanging baskets

And as ground cover (here it is covering a stream)

or over a hill side

or by and in the pond it will die back if you have a really sharp frost which is why it has only just started growing back but the bit under the water was fine

Changing the subject
by the way the green algy weed in the pond is nothing to do with it that i keep in the there at this time of year as the tadpoles eat it and the newts lay eggs in it but this year it gone mad but dare not clear it yet
As they still doing naughtys

Heres my little "Mind your own" factory when it gets going just pull up a bit with roots and pot it on for a few weeks and before you know it you will have loads of it

 

[vsmith]

Thats not a Triffid...

Now THATS a Triffid!

 

[Netty]

Quite difficult to tell from the piccy. The stuff Tony has is "Lysimachia", I think that the plant we are looking at is a little too upright for that but difficult to tell. "Ranuculus" (Cellandine) should, as has been said, stopped flowering by now. Look for little bulbils at the base of the stems, it would prefer the shade of the nettles to the direct sun I think. A good outside bet would be "Stellaria" (Chickweed) or possibly even some sort of "Campanula". At the moment without closer inspection I would say "Chickweed" as it grows like billyo and likes freshly disturbed ground, if it is it should get little white flowers. Dragging up very old knowledge here!!

 

[Richie]

Quite difficult to tell from the piccy. The stuff Tony has is "Lysimachia", I think that the plant we are looking at is a little too upright for that but difficult to tell. "Ranuculus" (Cellandine) should, as has been said, stopped flowering by now. Look for little bulbils at the base of the stems, it would prefer the shade of the nettles to the direct sun I think. A good outside bet would be "Stellaria" (Chickweed) or possibly even some sort of "Campanula". At the moment without closer inspection I would say "Chickweed" as it grows like billyo and likes freshly disturbed ground, if it is it should get little white flowers. Dragging up very old knowledge here!!

I would have to go with Dave's Chickweed see lots of it at work .

 

[spike]

Having another look at this plant it could be Creeping Jenny.
If it has square stems it flowers now thru August+ with yellow
flowers.