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I live in Beijing, and I am considering commandeering an unused patch of dirt behind my apartment building to grow a few flowers or vegetables or herbs. While I am searching around to find which plants are native to the North China Plain, I also want to figure out what plants I should "remove" from the patch of dirt. Most likely I will only take a few square feet in the corner of the dirt patch.
Although it can be difficult to identify plants from photos without flowers, I think I can help with a few of them.
Pictures 1 and 5- Some small bamboo and a blooming honeysuckle vine (Lonicera sp.). Picture 5 shows another, much larger, bamboo.
Picture 3 - A Tree of Heaven (Ailanthus altissima), the same small bamboo, as in picture 1, and a blooming honeysuckle vine.
Picture 4 - A Tree of Heaven that's been decapitated in the last year or so.
Pictures 6 and 7 - A collection of what I would call weeds; however, they could be escaped herbs that I just don't recognize. Most of the ones against the wall resemble a lettuce going to seed. There is a rayless composite in the left side of picture 6 that resembles horseweed, which would make it a noxious weed.
I suspect that the bamboo will be difficult to keep out of your little patch of garden.
