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    We've recently moved and the garden has some raised beds which has given us 1 leek and some potato plants left from the previous owner.
    There are a few of these too and I'm not sure if they are weeds or something else they planted.
    Any ideas?
    Thanks so much!
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  • #2
    That'll be a poppy!

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    • #3
      Hmmm...well....not really sure- but it looks ever so much like a poppy plant.

      One of my neighbours played a prank on another allotment holder by sprinkling a packet of giant double headed poppy seeds on his plot. Double purple headed ones.
      Anyway - they all came up and looked fantastic between the crops....year after year. We all ended up sprinkling a few seed heads on ours.
      Anyway- they look ever so similar to those.

      I'd be tempted to leave them and see.

      ( what do ya bet someone will post that it's a vegetable/herb now I've said that!!! )
      "Nicos, Queen of Gooooogle" and... GYO's own Miss Marple

      Location....Normandy France

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      • #4
        Hazel....I love you gal!!!!!
        "Nicos, Queen of Gooooogle" and... GYO's own Miss Marple

        Location....Normandy France

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        • #5
          Looks like a poppy to me tooooooo
          S*d the housework I have a lottie to dig
          a batch of jam is always an act of creation ..Christine Ferber

          You can't beat a bit of garden porn

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          • #6
            Great thank you!!

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            • #7
              Apparently PURPLE poppies are sold to commemorate animals who suffer in wars. I found this link with details about it. Excellent idea if ya ask me.

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              • #8
                Deffo purple Poppy - we are invaded by them every year. They do tend so suffer a little mildew, on occasions...
                All the best - Glutton 4 Punishment
                Freelance shrub butcher and weed removal operative.

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by Nicos View Post
                  Hazel....I love you gal!!!!!
                  *curtsey
                  It's not often that I can do flowers and get it right

                  Originally posted by ginger ninger View Post
                  Apparently PURPLE poppies are sold to commemorate animals who suffer in wars. I found this link with details about it. Excellent idea if ya ask me.
                  I never knew that!

                  The poppies that come up at the Hill like WEEDS are deep, deep scarlet and however vigorous weeding is (er - not always) a few always escape my attention - when they bud up I haven't the heart to hoof them out, and so I let them flower.

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                  • #10
                    I found an orange poppy, self seeded by my neighbours garage!! Never heard of orange ones before. Can't wait until it seeds, I'm going harvesting

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                    • #11
                      I love poppies.

                      We tried for years to grow the yellow Welsh ones and they never took; I had one come up at school, so uprooted it and brought it home [the teachers would have pulled it out if I'd left it], and put it in the bed outside the kitchen door, and lo and behold this year, it's self seeded. Flowered 3 days ago. Lovely

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                      • #12
                        Opium poppy is what it is

                        I weed out the purple ones on my lotty, but keep the bright reds
                        All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by zazen999 View Post
                          I love poppies.

                          We tried for years to grow the yellow Welsh ones and they never took; I had one come up at school, so uprooted it and brought it home [the teachers would have pulled it out if I'd left it], and put it in the bed outside the kitchen door, and lo and behold this year, it's self seeded. Flowered 3 days ago. Lovely
                          Tea Leaf!
                          All the best - Glutton 4 Punishment
                          Freelance shrub butcher and weed removal operative.

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by Glutton4... View Post
                            Tea Leaf!
                            Yup - sue me!!!

                            Those with quickest eye and snappiest trowel get the glory
                            Last edited by zazen999; 22-04-2011, 10:43 AM.

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                            • #15
                              I do it too, but I also share my customers' plants among each other, when I've divided them up.
                              All the best - Glutton 4 Punishment
                              Freelance shrub butcher and weed removal operative.

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