What is this bush/tree/plant?

[Callie]

What's this then? I have been nurturing it thinking it's a penstemon

 

[BillRiver]

Could be Annual Mercury?

Aka Mercurialis annua.

 

[gentlegreen]

Could be Annual Mercury?

Aka Mercurialis annua.

Either that or perennis - almost certainly one of the two ...
a euphorbia without much in the way of yellow/green bracts or milky sap ...

 

[Callie]

Ooh a euphorbia!

 

[gentlegreen]

Ooh a euphorbia!

So fairly poisonus.
I think people sometimes confuse it with fat hen.

 

[Callie]

I'm thinking the bright green plant with weird flowers and irritating sap (like you mention)

I'll probably rip it out as I don't like the look of those balls looks like itll spread those all over the shop and I'll end up with nothing but

 

[gentlegreen]

Bloody hell I had no idea cassava comes from a plant in the euphorbiacea ... it takes a lot of preparation though ...
Castor oil doesn't count as it's not something you would fry your chips in...

 

[Calamity1971]

((((white campion)))) if that is it, I've just planted loads along the hedge in my garden. Do love campion.

Yes I think that’s white campion, generally considered a weed, spreads quite aggressively.

Yep . There's none for miles?

 

[BillRiver]

Yes I think that’s white campion, generally considered a weed, spreads quite aggressively.

A weed to some is a beautiful wild flower to others

 

[BillRiver]

Or in other words:

"A weed is a flower in the wrong place"
- George Washington Carver

 

[Calamity1971]

Or in other words:

"A weed is a flower in the wrong place"
- George Washington Carver

Those were the first words from my tutor on a conservation course

 

[Calamity1971]

Can't for the life of me remember the name of this. Pleasant scent.Growing in the woods.

 

[BillRiver]

Looks like honesty to me ?

 

[Calamity1971]

Looks like honesty to me ?

Different leaves.

 

[BillRiver]

Different leaves.

Oops! Yes you're quite right, of course, my bad.

 

[prunus]

Can't for the life of me remember the name of this. Pleasant scent.Growing in the woods.
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Wild phlox or sweet William I think?

edit: not this - see below.

 

[Calamity1971]

Wild phlox or sweet William I think?

Cheers. Googled wild sweet William and it comes back phlox/sweet William. Think I'll be collecting some seeds off that.

 

[two sheds]

I was wondering how you tell when seeds are viable and ready to be collected and rhs site said generally a couple of months after seeding. Daffs apparently rattle when the seed heads are ready.

I did go round tying bits of string to flowers I wanted when I first came here, not done it for a while though.

 

[Calamity1971]

I was wondering how you tell when seeds are viable and ready to be collected and rhs site said generally a couple of months after seeding. Daffs apparently rattle when the seed heads are ready.

I did go round tying bits of string to flowers I wanted when I first came here, not done it for a while though.

I do that ( no string) paper bag and nab it.
Or a sly cutting from something hanging over a wall with a pre prepared damp plastic bag.
Plant burglar

 

[campanula]

Hesperis matronalis, aka dames rocket @Calamity 1971

The seeds are easy to collect - long, thin seed pods (not unlike Californian poppies)...but they take forever to get fully ripe. Nice fat easy seeds too. Will flower in the first year from an autumn sowing (I have bloody loads of it in the woods, along with red campion).

 

[Calamity1971]

Hesperis matronalis, aka dames rocket @Calamity 1971

The seeds are easy to collect - long, thin seed pods (not unlike Californian poppies)...but they take forever to get fully ripe. Nice fat easy seeds too. Will flower in the first year from an autumn sowing (I have bloody loads of it in the woods, along with red campion).

That's weird, my phone flagged that up about an hour ago after searching phlox yesterday. Says it's edible and the seeds are too. With an aphrodisiac quality!
Banned from growing in a lot of the states because it's invasive to other plants.
Cheers .

 

[Calamity1971]

Here's the article.
How to Grow Dame’s Rocket in Your Garden | Gardener’s Path

 

[gentlegreen]

Wikipedia suggests it smells nice in the evenings .. I'm going to have to see if I can get my nose in a couple of local specimens later in the day

 

[campanula]

It does have a lovely fragrance. I have a hard time keeping the lilac plants (they seem to default back to white after a couple of generations. If you like wallflowers (which I do) then hesperis is a lovely alternative...but I also grow an absolutely gorgeous lunaria from Corfu which is almost a true blue. I love the brassica family (arabis and aubretia to stocks) almost as much as the umbellifers. Phlox is a failure in my dry woods and sandy allotment though.

 

[Calamity1971]

Wikipedia suggests it smells nice in the evenings .. I'm going to have to see if I can get my nose in a couple of local specimens later in the day

It is lovely, I walked down at 9pm. Hopefully I can get some seeds of it.

 

[gentlegreen]

Is this Liquidambar styraciflua ?

 

[campanula]

yes.

 

[Brainaddict]

Yes, great autumn colour and nice seed pods but people have a tendency to underestimate their final size - which is pretty big - so they often get planted in unsuitable places.

 

[Callie]

What are these??

1)

 

[Callie]

And this
2)