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Does anyone know what this is in our garden? I'm thinking deadly nightshade so keeping a wide berth at the moment!




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No nothing to worry about, though don't eat them as they are pisonous. it is the berry spike of a british wild flower common name lords and ladies or Jack in the pulpit or to give it its botanical name Arum maculatum.

If you leave them the birds may eat some or if they don't get eaten they will grow and you will get new plants. They can become a bit of a nuisance however as they have a corm underground.

11 Aug, 2014

 

Great thanks for the info!

11 Aug, 2014

 

yes and if im not very much mistaken you have bind weed growing there as well.

11 Aug, 2014

 

Yes I thought so too. That's the heart shaped twinning leafed plant. I'd act on that with a glyphosate weed killer such as roundup to kill it off and its underground storage system. Now is a good time to spray it.

11 Aug, 2014

 

Deadly nightshade is a bush with black berries.

11 Aug, 2014

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