You may well like them but I would like to plant a few other plants therefore prefer to clear the ground. Please suggest a weedkiller would do the job.
Not able to recommend a weed killer as I don't think it is a good idea to spray toxic chemicals in my garden but I have grown lots of plants where there is calandine growing and they don't seem to interfere with the planting of other plants. They naturally die back in a few weeks as mentioned above so do not compete detrimentally with the other plants in the garden from what I have seen.
One of those plants that looks lovely in other people's gardens
If you want to use weedkiller and re plant the only option really is glyphosphate in one of its forms - e.g. Roundup or Rosate36. Both glyphosphate, but the latter is much much stronger. The problem with cleandine and weedkiller is that it tends to run off the waxy leaves, so more than 1 application will likely be needed. The other problem is that underground there will be a vast number of tiny tubers that may not appear until next year, so it's gonna be a bit of a battle. I have a similar on going battle with arum..
Good luck
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
I prefer to pick my battles, choosing only the ones I have a chance of winning without driving myself mad. If something is beautiful and doesn’t last long anyway, why not accept it for what it is ... and let nature have its way in one corner for a month. 😊
Nor criticizing your choice ... just explaining mine ... and warning you that the continual struggle against celandine has blighted lives and the enjoyment of gardens.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
If you can get to a farm shop/ farm supplier you should be able to buy glyphosate neat which you need to dilute, rather than a branded weedkiller with a low level of glyphoate, I sympathise as my previous garden was full of celandine, it grows from bulbils, the new ones made the previous year are like minute pills of soil which are impossible to see let alone dig out. Plus they seed themselves into cracks and crevices, smothering any cultivated small plants. You will need to keep applying the weedkiller for several years as they can survive in infested soil being bulbs and not fibrous rooted. Good luck.
We have masses, on clay, in the lawn and every bed,and ground has been under water a lot. I tried for years to dig them out, now, I dont bother, its impossible, so I let them get on with it, and by May, they have disappeared for another year.
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Not able to recommend a weed killer as I don't think it is a good idea to spray toxic chemicals in my garden but I have grown lots of plants where there is calandine growing and they don't seem to interfere with the planting of other plants. They naturally die back in a few weeks as mentioned above so do not compete detrimentally with the other plants in the garden from what I have seen.
If you want to use weedkiller and re plant the only option really is glyphosphate in one of its forms - e.g. Roundup or Rosate36. Both glyphosphate, but the latter is much much stronger.
The problem with cleandine and weedkiller is that it tends to run off the waxy leaves, so more than 1 application will likely be needed.
The other problem is that underground there will be a vast number of tiny tubers that may not appear until next year, so it's gonna be a bit of a battle.
I have a similar on going battle with arum..
Good luck
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
Nor criticizing your choice ... just explaining mine ... and warning you that the continual struggle against celandine has blighted lives and the enjoyment of gardens.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Good luck.