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Can you identify this . Please

Rachel194Rachel194 Posts: 2
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Can anyone identify this? It is about 30-40cms high, has thick surface runners and is growing in a spoil heap between ancient farmland and a new building project now under construction, also on ancient farmland in Dorset.

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  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445
    Saponaria officinalis


    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • PalustrisPalustris Posts: 4,307
    In its double form too. I find it very thuggish. Spreads everywhere.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    It sneaks here under the fence from next door ... 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • josusa47josusa47 Posts: 3,530
    Sadly, it's not, apparently, thuggish enough to prevent building on ancient farmland.
  • Rachel194Rachel194 Posts: 2
    Thanks everyone. It had me stumped cos of being the double form (which is apparently less thugish).
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    It’s the double form that we have here ... it spreads but is fairly easily pull up able when it outgrows its welcome. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





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