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Blue Ensign... grew it last year for the first time and now have suspicious seedlings coming up along the front of the compost bin I put the plants in at the end of last season... does anyone have a pic? for me to check against...
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Bump...  :-\

Will this do?

I'm not sure of the variety but blue ensign rings a bell!

Looks like my first attempt... the trick is the seed leaves look a bit like bindweed being in the same family but the true leaves don't. Just more veined...
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Quotethe seed leaves look a bit like bindweed

As I recall they are of the same family but wouldn't be absolutely sure without looking it up!  ???

Not only the same family, but field bindweed, the smaller pink-flowered version, is a Convolvulus species.

We have feild bindweed on some of the plots here too...  :)

We had it all over the garden when I was a kid, until I nicked a load of copper sulphate from the school chemistry lab, mixed up a strong solution, and kept painting it on the leaves till it was all dead.

Funny thing this convolvulsus,Its one terrible weed and at some time or another we all hate it. I have a wall at the bottom of my garden and i let the stuff grow up through my Carriea(spelling probably wrong) the huge Tom Thunb fushias and Forsythias as i get nice big trumpets when theres not much else there.
In Ethiopia the house lots are divided up into or upto 500sq mts with high walls around the perimeter and believe it or not there are many different colored bind weeds,along with other trumpet type flowers covering these walls.The stuff gets huge but when in flower does look nice.I never thought bind weed would be praised,ever.

I always say if they weren't so difficult to eradicate or were tender we would choose to try and grow them... (Well Japanese Knotweed was popular once)  :-[

I think I have a positive ID... Good King Henry, we had a row and OH binned them, but left one by mistake and these seedlings have a very similar shape and veining... does anyone have a link to a site with a pic? (Might be in the weed ones...)  :-\

Nope, it is "Jack by the Hedge" or garlic mustard, which I have been trying to establish for years.. it passed the taste test when it got big enough! Might pot a few up for the sale...  :)

does garlic mustard have little white flowers?

yes with four petals in a cross shape...  :)

oh yes, never noticed it in a cross ! I have both growing in the garden then, one planted Good king henry and garlic mustard self seed. Do you want pictures?

It grows rampantly all over my plot. It's considered an invasive species in the States (I can see why!) so beware of what you're asking for.

Yes it has just been weeded out of one of our beds too!  ;D