Hi all, i,m having problems identifying a plant in my garden

[quietjedi]

Hello all, I am new to gardening, or should I say growing and caring for plants, I planted around 200 bulbs in march and now have some great flowers appearing, but there is one that I am not sure about, it looks like some sort of cabbage, but to my eyes it looks like a weed, can anybody help me figure this out please! I have photos, but know not how to post them!

[applestar]

That doesn't look like the sort that grows from a bulb.... I can't think what it might be though.

[quietjedi]

thank you, i figured the posting pics now, but still baffled by this plant, if it is a weed I've never seen one near where I live in England, please can somebody enlighten me

[oldleo]

I think it is a kind of lettuce.

[Yourself007]

I just pull them out. I pull anything I didn't plant.

[Mini Mango!]

Hhm..I'm not so sure that it is lettuce..

It looks very very familiar to me, but I just can't remember like what.. .

@quietjedi,
You can wait and see if it flowers (if it will). Or you can carefully dig it out and check if it was indeed one of your bulbs or not. Then you can decide what to do with it.
But personally, I wouldn't just pull it out, it might become something pretty, even if I didn't plant it ..

[quietjedi]

Thanks, nice to have logic in reply, I will follow your advice and hope there will be a pleasant suprise in the form of a flower

[thanrose]

I don't know what it is, but you might try looking at pictures of Heracleum spp, or hogweed. There are many species, and some of them seem to have that gray-green color.

[oldleo]

Hhm..I'm not so sure that it is lettuce..

It looks very very familiar to me, but I just can't remember like what.. .

I think it is related to this plant, I think it is a type of wild lettuce


We plant it and eat it as vegetable.

[applestar]

Isn't that Hawkweed (my DD has been calling them "Dandelion Look-alike" because the flowers look exactly like Dendelion flowers)? I have several springing up around the garden and have been thinking they look edible... At what stage do you eat them and how?

[Mini Mango!]

hmm, wild lettuce eh? possible..
this one is also a wild lettuce:



Wild lettuce is usually referred to the more bitter fellows of the garden lettuce we eat.. So what YOU can do is to just taste it!! LOL. ...only have your phone close to you if you need to call the 911, ..in case it's poisonous..

But indeed, let's all hope this (lettuce?) will have pretty flowers soon!
Let us know!

MM

[oldleo]

Isn't that Hawkweed (my DD has been calling them "Dandelion Look-alike" because the flowers look exactly like Dendelion flowers)? I have several springing up around the garden and have been thinking they look edible... At what stage do you eat them and how?

Were you asking me? We only pluck the young leaves ( starting the fifth leaf counting from the top, we let the shoot continue growing). We pluck 5 or more leaves below the fourth leaf from each plant . We just wash the leaves and cut them into smaller pieces and fry them like any other leafy vegetables.

[quietjedi]

Hello all, I have been watching this plant grow over the last few weeks, and now there are flower buds starting to appear!, the actual plant now stands at 3 ft tall, 2 ft wide at the base and the main stem is nearly 2" in diameter I can't wait for the flowers to open up, then i will post pics and we may be able to identify once and for all, thanks to all who have given their help and knowledge! in anticipation quietjedi

[Mini Mango!]

Oooooooooh how WONDERFUL!! yeeeeeeeeey!
Always welcome! Glad to be here..

In anticipation for the pics!!

MM

[quietjedi]

As promised here are the flowers that have appeared from this plant, I am still at a loss to what this plant is or the flowers are Please help
http://s931.photobucket.com/albums/ad15 ... %20garden/