Name the weed & help me get rid of....please (ok maybe not a weed oooops)

stumpycat

Ah, I see - sorry, I completely misunderstood when I saw your original photo. I assumed you had planted the bulbs, and was a bit puzzled about the identification of grass
I'm now intrigued as to what the bulbs are, as the leaves seem very thick and leathery, though they're the shape of wild garlic or lily of the valley...

daedalus_2

I think its lily of the valley.

Sledgehead

I think it's what serenata flowers just delivered for Mothers' Day :embarasse

Looks like a trip to the local florist for me!

Tomtom07

We have decied to keep them and see what happens I will keep posting pics and let you all know thanks everyone for your help

susieb

I think lily of the valley as well, spread like wildfire here

gardenroute

Looks a lot more like Arum maculatum to me (common names too numerous to mention). It doesn't look like it should as its been mown, etc and not growing healthily. AFAIK all parts of this plants are poisonous, so don't eat/cook with it.

If its in the lawn I think you can just keep mowing it and it will weaken and disappear. I'm not sure any lawn weedkillers would work on this plant. It naturally dies back by early summer anyway.

Frankly if that's your lawn I would spend my time improving the grass, this weed will be gone after a few years of spring mowing, it looks weakened as it is.

Tomtom07

gardenroute wrote: »

Looks a lot more like Arum maculatum to me (common names too numerous to mention). It doesn't look like it should as its been mown, etc and not growing healthily. AFAIK all parts of this plants are poisonous, so don't eat/cook with it.

If its in the lawn I think you can just keep mowing it and it will weaken and disappear. I'm not sure any lawn weedkillers would work on this plant. It naturally dies back by early summer anyway.

Frankly if that's your lawn I would spend my time improving the grass, this weed will be gone after a few years of spring mowing, it looks weakened as it is.

Just having a look at google it has never looked like the images on there, so not sure myself

The lawn has been a nightmare since we moved in, you wouldn't believe what an improvement that is from when we first got here working on the lawn at the moment

gardenroute

You're right it doesn't look like the pictures on google, etc.
But a persistant-growing herbaceous plant with a wide, shiny, bright green leaf growing from a knobly white tuber; in an area where weeds/woodland plants were growing - I can't think of anything else it could be. As I said its been severely weakened, which is why it looks different to pictures of it growing naturally.
Either way it will disappear with mowing. New build houses tend to have compacted soil. This is probably why most of your grass in your lawn died. This can be improved by aerating and then top dress with sandy soil. Then sow grass seed over the top.

annie123

are you sure the leaves don't smell of garlic when rubbed? It looks so much like the patch I try to keep the public away from in our local woods!

meanmarie

Don't think its wild garlic...something about the way leaf comes up from plant, I have wild garlic and leaves rather fall over as they emerge IYKWIM....not bluebells either, seems more like some kind of lily leaf to me, although lily bulbs are segmented...TBH, don't know so can offer no help beyond saying to leave it and see what happens to it...

Marie