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Corydalis lutea ... yellow fumitory
http://www.perennials.com/plants/corydalis-lutea.html
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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Looks lovely ?
I'm with Susiek on this one, but I believe it's a weed in many people's book. I think we need a name for a category of attractive plants which grow wild, but if you invite them into your garden, you're liable to end up with rather too much of it. I'm thinking of valerian, mind your own business, sumac, ivy, buddleia, perennial sweet pea, hypericum, would anyone like to lengthen the list? Perhaps we could call them weedoids? Or sub-weeds?
No, much too pejorative .... most of those, with the exception of MYOB,are easily recognised and dealt with if they spread out of their allotted space. I love a pretty plant that makes itself at home and spreads itself around a bit.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
So do I, and I have a particularly soft spot for herb Robert. Here on the North Wales coast we all have Welsh poppies in our gardens, they grow everywhere but where you want them. Sow them in a floral border and you get nothing but then they turn up in the mulch round your fruit trees, and at the foot of your house wall, and in your block paving. They are widely tolerated because a) they're lovely and b) they're Welsh.