Connor is doing remarkably well growing a marsh marigold and even his reeds have had a good week growing to 3cm!
Nath's reeds have now grown to 27cm and his plant is starting to look very substantial. He's also growing 3 invaders, 2 of which we've yet to identify.
One of them is also a marsh marigold. The other 2 are quite different to each other. One has serrated double leaves and a fluffy stem, I'm tempted to say it might be a nettle but doesn't sting when you touch it; whilst the other has smooth oblong double leaves and a smooth stem. Any ideas anyone...?
In an attempt to identify them we came across this website about leaf morphology and the diagram below from Wikipedia helps with the detective work!
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