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| I've noticed an odd plant growing in my yard, ive been letting it grow to try and see if i coulf identify it but have nad no luck yet. Ive google imaged it and i think it could be hemp? The only explination for that would be that my younger brother and i emptied out used bird seed from our birds into a corner of our backyard so that wild birds could eat the uneaten seeds. |
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| Maybe Oenothera biennis. |
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| it seems to have bloomed at 2am :S but its taking over the garden :( |
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| update: with fear of it being Oenothera biennis and it killing my beautiful flowers i dug it out and planted in a pot and might end up planting to complete front of the house. Also,those roots growing everywhere, its a watermelon :) |
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| I was told this is "Evening Primrose" when one made a surprise appearance in my garden. I also acquired one where least expected, in the side vent of an old chimney pot which contains a now-overshadowed "dwarf" Mock Orange. I thought what I'd planted in there were Marigold seeds, so let it grow when it first appeared. It wasn't until it started to flower that my suspicions the leaves weren't Marigold were proved right. My plant probably did come from birdseed dropped from the feeding station nearby, but I don't have a contents list for the seed, so I'm only guessing. To be honest, the Mock Orange isn't looking very happy, so I think I'll be doing the same as you and potting up my "visitor." |
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| Yes, that looks like the weedy biennial evening primrose. Don't let it go to seed or you will have it everywhere. Honestly, if I were you I would cut off the part currently flowering an put it in the trash, and then compost the rest. |
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| AliCx - I doubt your Evening Primrose (Oenothera biennis) came from the bird feeder. More likely a local bird ate them in another garden and then sowed them in yours. It is a very common alien in British gardens. One of those plants introduced as an ornamental and now making itself very much at home everywhere. It is now included in British wild flower lists as a naturalised plant. Whether you consider it a weed or not is entirely up to the individual. But if yours flowers it will probably self sow. The name tells you it is a biennial which means in the first year it will make a basal rosette of leaves and in the second year it will flower. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Evening Primrose
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