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Hello Can anyone help me identify this plant which is taking over my cottage garden? I cant remember planting it but it is seriously running wild. Does it do anything like flower? I hate pulling anything out but may have to make an exception here :oops: Thanks a million in anticipation

Druid

 

http://club.omlet.co.uk/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=27524&g2_navId=xccf05d6c

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Thanks to you all - I do admit it does look like a stingy nettle but it doesnt sting and is smaller than the couple I have (ladybirds love them :wink: ). Maybe it is a dead nettle so I guess I had better start pulling them out - apparently the leaves of this were fed many years ago to young turkeys in the North East according to Google :shock: wonder if chickens like them :wink: Thanks again

Druid :)

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Could it be honesty? That's the plant that has pink/mauve flowers and the pretty seed heads ( will see if I can find a picture!)

 

I think it's Honesty too. I have some in my garden and it does spread if not controlled :evil: Keep a couple of the plants, they are really pretty when they flower, and when the flowers die you are left with seed heads which have papery scales which you can rub off and then use what's left as dried flowers, if that's your kind of thing :wink:

 

Tessa

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looks too tall, and leaves too narrow to be comfrey - another one that I have just got rid of from my garden. Comfrey also has tough runners, like strawberry plants. Comfrey has blue tubular type flowers that hang down, so if it is comfrey, you should be able to tell quickly.

 

edited to say Comfrey was a good suggestion though.

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Thank you all so much - I have weeded out the majority today but left a few plants. A mint is a good suggestion but ive rubbed the leaves and it doesnt smell of anything, honesty perhaps I will watch the remainder and see. It did have runner like roots and in a patch of garden about 2m x 3m i weeded out a black bin liner full so it is obviously very rampant. Thanks again to you all again - chickens, eggs, roses and gardens, omlet beats google anyday and is far more friendly :wink:

Druid

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Definitely looks like Dead Nettle to me. I've had it in the garden - it does have tiny, nondescript white flowers, but the roots run just under the surface of the soil and spread like wildfire! Not too difficult to eradicate it by pulling them up, but it does smoother everything quite quickly :?

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I think it's comfrey too :?

 

if it is, it will develop rather beautiful blue flowers.

Good news....absolutely the best compost activator and plant food you can get.

folk go out of their way to hold of the stuff to cut and bung in the compost heap....speeds it up a treat :lol:

Bad news.....some of the comfrey family are real thugs. They do take over somewhat :?

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