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06-05-2020, 01:44 PM
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Please Does Anyone Know What This Pink Flowering Plant Is?

I have just noticed this pink flowering plant growing in my garden.
I haven’t planted it and l’ve never seen it here before.

It’s probably a weed!


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06-05-2020, 02:25 PM
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Re: Please Does Anyone Know What This Pink Flowering Plant Is?

Herb Robert, type of geranium (I think) wild flower aka a weed. I like them personally.
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06-05-2020, 02:31 PM
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Re: Please Does Anyone Know What This Pink Flowering Plant Is?

Got those in my garden, it's a wild flower. No such thing as weeds, unless you are a maniacal landscaper.
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06-05-2020, 02:36 PM
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Re: Please Does Anyone Know What This Pink Flowering Plant Is?

Originally Posted by TessA ->
Herb Robert, type of geranium (I think) wild flower aka a weed. I like them personally.
I agree Tess. I does certainly look like herb Robert.
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06-05-2020, 02:40 PM
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Re: Please Does Anyone Know What This Pink Flowering Plant Is?

Stinks if you pick it!
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06-05-2020, 02:49 PM
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Re: Please Does Anyone Know What This Pink Flowering Plant Is?

Originally Posted by TessA ->
Stinks if you pick it!
Are you on the right thread.
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06-05-2020, 02:55 PM
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Re: Please Does Anyone Know What This Pink Flowering Plant Is?

Originally Posted by Tiffany ->
Got those in my garden, it's a wild flower. No such thing as weeds, unless you are a maniacal landscaper.
Agreed, it's just a plant/flower in an inappropriate place that's all.

Originally Posted by TessA ->
Stinks if you pick it!
All of the geranium family stink when you pick them imo.
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Re: Please Does Anyone Know What This Pink Flowering Plant Is?

Originally Posted by Artangel ->
I have just noticed this pink flowering plant growing in my garden.
I haven’t planted it and l’ve never seen it here before.

It’s probably a weed!


Some knowledgeable gardeners on here, I'd never heard of or even seen it, information on the link below about your 'weed':

"What is herb Robert?

A native member of the hardy geranium family, herb robert is a common annual or biennial weed which spreads by seed.

It is found growing throughout the British Isles and favours shaded habitats such as woods, hedgerows, banks, coastal shingle and rocky places."

https://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profile?pid=991
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06-05-2020, 05:09 PM
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Re: Please Does Anyone Know What This Pink Flowering Plant Is?

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06-05-2020, 06:03 PM
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Re: Please Does Anyone Know What This Pink Flowering Plant Is?

Originally Posted by TessA ->
Stinks if you pick it!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geranium_robertianum

Geranium robertianum, commonly known as herb-Robert red robin, death come quickly*, storksbill, fox geranium, stinking Bob, squinter-pip (Shropshire), crow's foot, or (in North America) Roberts geranium, is a common species of cranesbill native to Europe and parts of Asia, North America, and North Africa.
* In Cumbria, a death will follow the introduction of the plant into a house .....
 
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