ID please...

[Guus]

Hi all, I was wondering if this is Aegopodium? The plant is quite big, about 50 cm high. The leaves look like those .. ow, you can see it on the picture.
Any idea?

Thanks for the help! Greetings, Guus

[johnw]

Dig every bit first thing in the morning, bareroot and bag or burn and excavate the entire area far and wide for missed root bits. Repeat. And don't wait a moment longer.

My usual recommendation for patches larger than this is "Move house".

johnw

[Lesley Cox]

Is this the same plant pictured in the Paeonia thread recently? It was in flower, surrounding the paeony. If it is ground elder, would anyone be so silly as deliberately to plant it with desirable plants?

[johnw]

A friend asks what this might be that came as a stray in a packet of SRGC seed. Ideas?

johnw

[Maggi Young]

Crikey, it's the poached egg plant... whose name escapes me!
Give me a minute........

 Ian knew it.... Limnanthes douglasii

[brianw]

Try this http://www.gardenersworld.com/plants/limnanthes-douglasii/2346.html

Colourfull but a bit weedy.

[Maggi Young]

Colourfull but a bit weedy.

Funny that, we don't see it around as much as we used to in this area.  As to weedy:  when I tried to get it growing in our driveways in the early years to pad out the flowering in the summer,  before the permanent  plants got going, the darn thing never grew at all! Got fresh seed from a pal with lots of it seeding around her place.... think I got one tiny flower, like in JW's photo in about two years! Luckily by then the geraniums etc were fattening up for seed so that was okay.
Pretty things for an area that needs brightening.

[johnw]

I saw this beautiful maple in a garden in the Annapolis Valley today, it was grown from seed labelled mixed Japanese maple species.  Friend had it labelled A. triflorum but I think it's A. mono, he did say mono was mentioned as being in the mix. Anyone?

Superb tree whichever it may be.

johnw  - heavy fog &18c at 20:00 Atl.

[Afloden]

Looks more like mono ssp truncatum, or truncatum if you prefer. Not sure how distinct they are, but the leaf base is typical of truncatum.

[johnw]

Aaron - Thanks so much. 

While we have you there, here is another I saw a couple of weeks ago in Lunenburg.  It was given to the owner as triflorum!

At the time I didn't even question it as I was still in a daze after having just seen a big-leafed Magnolia virginianum that he dug as a roadside plant in NJ years ago,  it was nothing notable just an unremarkable seedling back then.

Ideas?

johnw - +20c and drizzle