The soil they imported must have come from an interesting source! More weed than seed sprouting so far!
bryalea,
Jan 5, 10:26pm
google Fathen, pepper weed, willow weed. Don't know the other one but I have a feeling it hasn't always been around.
bryalea,
Jan 5, 10:45pm
The other is a form of deadly nightshade but not the most common ones.
oh_hunnihunni,
Jan 5, 10:55pm
Interesting, so looks like a rural source for the dirt.
I'm surprised there's no ragwort.
oh_hunnihunni,
Jan 5, 10:57pm
Shoofly maybe?
starseeker,
Jan 8, 3:25am
Shoofly - has pretty blue/white flowers. It's a weed.
starseeker,
Jan 8, 3:26am
Shoofly it is. It's a weed with pretty blue & white flowers
lakeview3,
Jan 8, 7:51am
1st one looks like Datura stramonium (thorn apple)
Horrible little plant. Get rid of it.
strathview,
Jan 8, 8:27am
Second one is fathen. don't know the others
oh_hunnihunni,
Jan 8, 8:27am
Not my lawn, not my problem according to the corporate landlord. But, if they don't do something fast those things will have flowered, seeded, and taken over.
Oh well, so long as they stay out of my lilies!
androth2,
Jan 8, 8:50am
When i had a new lawn done by a contractor they left the bag overnight so I took a sample out.When things like turnips appeared I asked around and it was call "bush burn" a cheap fast growing rubbish.The contractor denied it but when shown the proof said I shouldn't have taken the sample ,which i had paid for anyway
oh_hunnihunni,
Jan 8, 7:52pm
Sounds familiar, lol.
tegretol,
Jan 8, 9:43pm
Spray the whole lawn with Banvine and everything but the grass will vanish. The only exception to that might be be paspalum which even Banvine won't kill.
tygertung,
Jan 9, 7:07am
I consider that anything growing on the lawn which is green counts as grass.
hazelnut2,
Jan 9, 7:36am
Scumbag contractors blaming the 'victim'. I hope they rectified and you now have a wonderful velvet lawn!
hazelnut2,
Jan 9, 7:37am
Because paspalum is a kind of grass. I'd be digging that out by hand!
bryalea,
Jan 9, 8:17am
When it gets mown much of the weed will die. They are not things that live at 2 inches high.
harm_less,
Jan 9, 8:18am
Some of the grass in the third photo looks more like kikuyu than paspalum. Still a grass but a whole different level of weed potential.
androth2,
Jan 9, 8:31am
The contractors did nothing so I had to put up with it .Anyway the house burnt down 2 years ago and the damaged Fibrolite cladding put asbestos all over the lawn so everything was scrapped off to 100mm depth.
autumnwinds,
Jan 9, 10:33am
I agree, that looks suspiciously like kikyu, and would be a real pest in the area OH lives, very hard to get rid of and sends out thick strong runners that crawl into bushes and take over if not dealt with properly, far too much for you to take on, OH.
Seriously, speak again to the corporate landlord - perhaps (if he's not already the LL), tell him you'll have a talk to the Council. That's not a "lawn" grass, most unsuitable for suburban lawns, more suitable for very sandy areas that are prone to erosion, or in a mix for sports fields that get mown down very regularly - I loathe to have to deal with kikiyu again.
tourer100,
Jan 9, 9:14pm
Second one looks like lambs quarter to me, edible
oh_hunnihunni,
Jan 12, 7:35am
I am not worried about the kikuyu, that is our lawn. The plants that intrigue me are the weeds popping up, and this evening one of them has opened its flower. That looks like datura, said me, and sure enough, thornapple looks like that because it is datura, or one of the family.
Pretty thing. Glows against the green. No doubt the mower will come any day now and slaughter them all.
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