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    My mum wants to know what this is growing in her garden, she's not sure if its a weed or not

    http://i586.photobucket.com/albums/s...e/100_0209.jpg

    Any idea's?

  • #2
    It looks like Cosmos but it could be Phacelia.
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    • #3
      *puts hand up

      Miss miss - I think it is achillea


      achillea - Google Image Search

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      • #4
        Originally posted by zazen999 View Post
        *puts hand up

        Miss miss - I think it is achillea


        achillea - Google Image Search
        It does look alot like that! Is it a weed? Will tell her what it is, thanks

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        • #5
          It is achillea, it's in quite a regular clump which suggests an ornamental version.
          The 'weed' version is called yarrow and is much lower and would be more spread out as it tries to colonise the rest of your flowerbed...!

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          • #6
            A weed is only a flower in the wrong place.


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            • #7
              It's not a weed IgglePiggle and it does look like achillea. Wait intil it flowers and you'll know for sure.

              From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.

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              • #8
                Its a perennial flowering ornamental plant, or a weed if you don't like it and it even has quite few herbal uses!

                Yarrow
                My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order
                to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)

                Diversify & prosper


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                • #9
                  I think it might be scentless mayweed. If it produces daisylike flowers and the foliage smells sweet then it is. But it certainly could be yarrow.

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                  • #10
                    It's a weed (and anything pink or yellow is a weed to me)
                    Last edited by Two_Sheds; 17-06-2009, 06:20 AM.
                    All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by Two_Sheds View Post
                      It's a weed (and anything pink or yellow is a weed to me)
                      Now I can take pink, or yellow, but the two together - Yukk! Reminds me of Battenburg cake which I - an avowed cake lover, founder member of the village Cake Club, loathe and detest!

                      Funny, aren't we?
                      Whoever plants a garden believes in the future.

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                      • #12
                        It is Yarrow (Achillea). The flowers are white on the weed version but pink in ornamental varieties. You can eat the very young leaves in salad but IMHO they taste gross.
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                        • #13
                          I always think the flowers of the wild yarrow smell like ham sandwiches.
                          Whoever plants a garden believes in the future.

                          www.vegheaven.blogspot.com Updated March 9th - Spring

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