Forum home› Plants
This Forum will close on Wednesday 27 March, 2024. Please refer to the announcement on the Discussions page for further detail.

Does any one know what this is? Is it a weed?

Juniper4Juniper4 Posts: 79
in Plants
Hi All,
Could any one identify this weed/plant. Is growing in our lawn, so I'm thinking it's a weed but then looks like a climbing plant. Passion flower, sweet pea?? I have no idea, but they have started to grow in odd places in the lawn. If its a climbing plant should I remove them from the lawn and replant in borders? Please help, thank you.

Posts

  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    passion flower. For me it's  a weed, but others cherish them. 
    As you can see, they do tend to move beyond where they were planted.
    Devon.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    I love my Passion flower when it has flowers on, when it doesn’t, I hate it. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Mine smothered everything around it in masses of leaves then, if I was lucky, produced half a dozen flower.
    Devon.
  • Juniper4Juniper4 Posts: 79
    Yeah, I had one for two years. Then last year I pruned it back due to the mass invasion of the leaves. After it had flowered and leaves turned brown. I think I might have killed it, as nothing has appeared this year regards to leaves.
    But I didn't know that it could spread to the lawn. As it was growing in a border, against the fence and I would de-head as the flowers died.
    @Hostafan1 how would it have seeded (if it does seed)? 

  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    it might well have survived underground and spread,then popped up in the lawn. Mowing will deal with that bit. ;)
    Devon.
  • RaspberryKillerRaspberryKiller Posts: 156
    Passionflower... I have one growing on a small Trellis.

    This is it 3-weeks ago. It's now outgrown the Trellis!


  • ZeroZero1ZeroZero1 Posts: 577
    Before you pull it up, it has a stunning flower
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    ZeroZero1 said:
    Before you pull it up, it has a stunning flower
    it does indeed , but mine was 99.99% foliage and 0.001% flower which is why I ripped mine out.
    Devon.
  • DyersEndDyersEnd Posts: 730
    I'm still fighting with one that wanted to get into the monkey puzzle tree. I'd have never been able to deal with it if it had won that battle, it would probably have encompassed the whole village by now.
Sign In or Register to comment.