[prakash_mib]

getting loads of these in the plot. What re they?

[rock_chick]

Euphorbia peplus (Petty spurge).  An annual weed

[aelf]

I think it's the Sun Spurge Euphorbia helioscopia L.

Could do with a clearer picture  

[rock_chick]

It could be sun spurge. If the stems are branched with oval, blunt-tipped and stalked leaves, then it's petty spurge, but if they are unbranched  with spoon-shaped leaves, which are broadest at the top, then it's sun spurge.

[mumofstig]

whatever  ........... Tis still a weed   

[PennyS]

I get loads of it at home but I quite like it, there are uglier weeds around 

[mumofstig]

I get loads of it at home but I quite like it, there are uglier weeds around 

Ground elder and rosebay willowherb are pretty....but they are still weeds 

[sunshineband]

I like the look of dandelions too.... but not in my plot 

[New shoot]

We had a lady in at work the other day with a piccie of Himalayan Balsam on her phone.  She had seen it at the side of the road and wanted to grow it 

We talked her out of it 

[sunshineband]

We had a lady in at work the other day with a piccie of Himalayan Balsam on her phone.  She had seen it at the side of the road and wanted to grow it 

We talked her out of it 

 

I love the smell of it though 

[savbo]

when I was a countryside ranger I was aghast when my mum told me she'd been given some wild orchids to grow....then had a laugh when they turned out to be balsam plants, esp as we used to bash down huge areas of it...

[sunshineband]

when I was a countryside ranger I was aghast when my mum told me she'd been given some wild orchids to grow....then had a laugh when they turned out to be balsam plants, esp as we used to bash down huge areas of it...

 

My mum and dad grew them at the end of the garden for years. I loved popping the sed pods when I was little .

They got rid of them when they realised the nature of the beast