Plant ID please ?

[MrsKP]

First one is from a packet, but doesn't look anything like any of the packets I've got stored safely for identification !   :o  It must have come from one of them as I've got quite a few both in the country garden corner and in pots.

Second one quite possibly might be a weed cos it's on my front lawn.  I thought it was quite unusual and not like your common or garden daisy.

[MrsKP]

[Palustris]

If you mean the purple/pink one, it is one of the forms of annual candytuft, Iberis.
The orange 'weed' is Hieracium aurantiacum or Grim the Collier or various other names. It is a very nice rampageous thug of a native flower. do not let it seed or you may be weeding it out of every crook and nanny for years!

[MrsKP]

Oh thanks so much.  Mum gave me a marge tub full of candytuft seeds and I had no idea what they looked like !  No wonder I didn't have a packet to refer back to!

;D

I quite like my thug and it's the first time I've ever seen one.  It is quite pretty and is on it's own atm ! 

Thanks for the help Palustris.

Names names have gone in the note book!

[Palustris]

I like the thug, but it is a thug and I would feel awful if i had not warned you and it took over!.

[MrsKP]

you can tell by the state of the lawn that i'm none to fussed about the general state of things as long as they look pretty.

we actually seem to be inundated by poppies around here and i'm positively encouraging them. 

The horsetail is the thug around these parts, so if my Grim can bully that out of the garden i'd be delighted.

;D

[Hyacinth]

If you like the 2nd, which I've always known as hawkweed, praps you'd like to read some more about it, I wonder?

Sweet dreams!  ;D

http://www.oneplan.org/Crop/noxWeeds/nxWeed18.shtml

[MrsKP]

why am i scared to click the link ?

:P

[Hyacinth]

Sleep well, Mrs.KP?

;D

[MrsKP]

given that i've a broken back, "slept in" until 5.30 and had to roll out of bed cos everything ached, aye no bad.

first thing i did was go to see how far my weed had spread and now i have three blooms !

oh and clear your box girl, you're full !

:P

[Hyacinth]

The future's bright.....the future's ORANGE..  8)

Shame about the back, but levelling the raised beds and moved x tonnes of clayey soil will limber you up nicely for the next project - erecting a large greenhouse single-handed ;D

[MrsKP]

Funnily enough I've said exactly the same to work colleagues.

;D