Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Can anyone identify these plants?
As always I have a couple of univited guests in my garden this year. It's one of the things I really like about gardening, but this year I'm having trouble working out what they are and wondered if anyone on the site recognised them.
The first I really like - a marmalade orange daisy like flower that has managed to colonise a gap between some paving and looks pretty good. Here is a picture:
The second I'm a bit nervous about as the leaves have a knotweedish look to them (though from a quick look online the flowers are wrong) - does anyone know what this is? It has shot up out of the blue in the last two weeks. It looks quite nice but I'm keeping my fingers crossed it isn't anything too awful...
Thanks in advance for any help.
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Permalink Reply by David OS on
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Orange hawksbit, i think (bit.ly/12eBtpy). I introduced it deliberately in our garden. My wife keeps trying to get rid of it but it invariably shows up somewhere each year.
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Permalink Reply by Sam R on
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The second one is everywhere in my garden as well and does particularly well in shade which I know you have. It's an annual and is very easily controlled so don't worry. Have no idea about the name.
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Permalink Reply by Nemone Mercer on
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Hiya,
I have the second one sometimes - don't know what it is but it's not too bad and very easy to pull up. There's never very mach bare soil in my flower beds so it never really gets a chance to get hold! but it would probably self seeds like the clappers given half the chance!
See you Sunday.
Happy gardening!
x Nemone.
ps my 7year old has chosen this smiley face!
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Permalink Reply by Alison P on
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Bless you all (and your daughter Nemone), that's very good news. I'd better cut it down before it seeds then.
Have just looked up fox and cubs because of the funny name - according to this site it is also called Devil's paintbrush and Grim-the-Collier (its real name is Pilosella aurantiaca). It is native to alpine areas in central and southern Europe.
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The second ones are called "skvaldrerkaal" in Danish. I can't work out what they are called in English but in Denmark they are recognised as a weed which is extremely hard to get rid of. My family are battling them all the time and I am also trying to keep them down here in London. Apparently you can use the leaves in salads, but dont take my word for it http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=skvalderkaal&rls=com.microsoft...
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