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Unknown plant/weed in flower beds

TheveggardenerTheveggardener Posts: 1,057
in Problem solving
I found this plant in the flower bed it seems to be spreading. Any Idea what it is and how to get rid of it or is it something worth keeping..

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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Could it be Glechoma hederacea ?

    https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/wildlife-explorer/wildflowers/ground-ivy

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





  • TheveggardenerTheveggardener Posts: 1,057
    edited May 2019
    Possibly Dovefromabove. I can't get to where there is a flower but it looks more of a blue and it's not very tall. How would I get rid of it' I dug some up last week and thought that was it but it's back and starting to head for the lawn.

    Should have said it has a horrible smell when the leaves are crushed.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    It’s not deep rooted ... I’ve never had a problem with just weeding it out if it’s where I don’t want it to be. 

    It might be a little tricky to do that if it’s growing in paving so if you’re not averse to weedkillers you could smear some glyphosate gel on the leaves and leave it to die off. 

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





  • TheveggardenerTheveggardener Posts: 1,057
    Thanks Dovefromabove, not keen on weedkillers, nasty reaction a couple of weeks ago to something OH put on the lawn. You say it's a gel so it wouldn't be sprayed on I'll have a look and see as it can be contain to one plant. The root a quiet deep but but fine it spread by the looks of it by runners.
  • TheveggardenerTheveggardener Posts: 1,057
    Dovefromabove, just been looking on a weed identifier website and it's either as you said a wild grown Ivy or something call creeping charlie. Would the gel work on the creeping charlie as well if it is that.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited May 2019
    Yes ... it’ll work on both those ... they’re the same thing.

    Ground ivy isn’t a real ivy.

    Good luck.😊 

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





  • TheveggardenerTheveggardener Posts: 1,057
    Thanks Dovefromabove I get some while out tomorrow. Not keen on using weedkillers but this it getting everywhere just found another patch which has got itself round one of my roses.
  • uppityradishuppityradish Posts: 25
    It looks and sounds suspiciously like Campanula poscharskyana (trailing bellflower)...it took me months to clear it out of a border. After covering with black plastic sheet for months, it was STILL alive - so, I ended up painstakingly clearing the roots out by hand. Leaving just one tiny bit of root would allow it to regrow.
  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445
    uppityradish said:
    It looks and sounds suspiciously like Campanula poscharskyana (trailing bellflower)...it took me months to clear it out of a border. After covering with black plastic sheet for months, it was STILL alive - so, I ended up painstakingly clearing the roots out by hand. Leaving just one tiny bit of root would allow it to regrow.
    It doesn't look remotely like any Campanula. Ground Ivy is much easier to weed out


    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • TheveggardenerTheveggardener Posts: 1,057
    uppityradish and nutcutlet Thanks both Dovefromabove recommended a glosphosate gel. If it is Campanula poscharskyana would the gel still work on it or would you recommend something else? when you crush the leaves it has a unpleasant smell.
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