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Can anyone help with what these plants are?

Lozzibear

Warren Scout
I am getting rabbits soon so I want to make sure the garden is safe. Does anyone know what these plants/weeds are? And whether they are harmful?









I have removed the one on the slabs but it will most likely be back!

Thanks :)
 
The first is thistle family - definitely a weed, possibly edible. The smaller plant around it is goose grass (sticky weed) and rabbit edible.

Next pick could be raspberry or bramble - looks like it's getting berries in the next pic and you'll be able to ID when they ripen. They are great for bunnies if so.

Last picture looks like a pea, sweet peas (grown for flowers) aren't safe, edible peas are. Again it will be easier once it flowers.
 
Number 1 I'm fairly sure is prickly sow thistle (safe)
Number 2 looks a lot like bramble or raspberry - does it have thorns?
Number 3 is a whole mixture of stuff I wouldn't want to name any of it as you won't know what's what
Number 4 I have no idea
 
Thanks guys :)

So sweet pea definitely needs to come up? The second one has little thorns but they aren't majority jaggy, more sticky jaggy... if that makes sense lol.
 
Thanks guys :)

So sweet pea definitely needs to come up? The second one has little thorns but they aren't majority jaggy, more sticky jaggy... if that makes sense lol.

I have raspberry plants in the garden and the leaves are smooth but bramble leaves are a wee bit jaggy but not jaggy jaggy!!
 
I have raspberry plants in the garden and the leaves are smooth but bramble leaves are a wee bit jaggy but not jaggy jaggy!!

This one has smooth leaves but a jaggy stem with really small thorns... no idea what that is lol.
 
Sorry trying to post a picture. managed to join photobucket buts that's as far as I can get.
 
I have raspberry plants in the garden and the leaves are smooth but bramble leaves are a wee bit jaggy but not jaggy jaggy!!

Haha this made me laugh :D Yeah brambles are more prickly than raspberries. Both are suitable for rabbits anyway though I wouldn't feed it until we can be certain it's not something else.
 
If they are cultivated plants the thorniness varies. I specifically bough both rapsberries and blackberries with no thorns :lol:

They look like raspberries but wait and see what the fruit comes out as - although you can get crosses with varies berries to confuse things more :lol:
 
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