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Can you help ID this plant for me?
Hi guys - this is my first post here in the Greenfingered Arena.
I have this plant in my garden but I don't know what it is and am not sure I need to be pulling it out as a weed or leave it.
It is growing quickly and is quite low growing. Leaves look like flat leaf parsley, and it smells like that too. The stems are red and the small flowers that are appearing on some clumps are small (about 1cm across) have 5 smooth pink petals with white stripes and a yellow centre.
I am going to try and post a pic but I have not ever done that so bear with me!
Thank you
http://picasaweb.google.com/100127853688197395747/PinkFlower#
I have this plant in my garden but I don't know what it is and am not sure I need to be pulling it out as a weed or leave it.
It is growing quickly and is quite low growing. Leaves look like flat leaf parsley, and it smells like that too. The stems are red and the small flowers that are appearing on some clumps are small (about 1cm across) have 5 smooth pink petals with white stripes and a yellow centre.
I am going to try and post a pic but I have not ever done that so bear with me!
Thank you
http://picasaweb.google.com/100127853688197395747/PinkFlower#
Donna
Economy; careful management; providence. Whether you call it thrifty or frugality it all comes down to getting more for your money.
Economy; careful management; providence. Whether you call it thrifty or frugality it all comes down to getting more for your money.
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It looks like something from the Erodium family0
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My Mum has this in garden aswell, I think it may be a weed (but not 100% sure!) Mum doesm't pull it us though because it is so pretty. It grows round a grid in her garden and has been there since we were kids (I'm 30 now!) and she loves it and says it reminds her of us when we were little :heartsmil0
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I have got it in my garden, it grows like weed and I pull it off.0
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Looks like a cranesbill - type of geranium but small flowers and lots of leaf. Is a shallow rooted weed. Unless you like it! A weed is just a plant in the wrong place.
HTH
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Thank you all - especially Bigmuffins! I looked cranesbill up and I would say you have hit the nail on the head.
It seems it is also a herb and this is what I found out
"Cranesbill tea was traditionally used as a styptic to stop bleeding and also to treat diarrhea, dysentry, relieve piles and gum disease and act as a diuretic. Wild geranium root tea was used as a tonic in folk medicine and was additionally used to treat burns, abnormal growths, cholera, gingivitis, hemorrhoids, leucorrhea, infections (including the plague), internal bleeding, canker sores, wounds, toothache, sore mouth and throat, ulcers, and various stomach problems."
Thank you all!Donna
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If its of interest Erodiums and Geraniums are quite closely related.I'd rather be an Optimist and be proved wrong than a Pessimist and be proved right.0
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Herb robert - rather smelly weed
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ooh I have this growing around the front of my pond. The bees love it!Sometimes not moving backwards is as much an achievement as moving forwards is on other times. (originally posted by kidcat)
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