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What is this golden-flowered plant?

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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    That pink geranium is a nightmare @Emerion. The seedlings get in everywhere and don't take long to make deep roots. It still pops up here too. It's particularly fond of getting into iris or hiding amongst more welcome geraniums. . Like you, I have the odd one. NDN had planted that and vinca. The joys of ground cover plants😒
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    I couldn't get lysimachia Firecracker to grow in my French garden.
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • ButtercupdaysButtercupdays Posts: 4,546
    I remember it, as a child in a south London suburb, as a sad, weedy thing lurking in dusty corners. I called it star flower.
    Was quite pleased when I first found it here, not any more! It's on my black list of things to remove, as conditions here suit it only too well  :(
  • EmerionEmerion Posts: 599
    Absolutely @B3. I think ground cover plants sound attractive when you’re a newish gardener. The appeal is that they sound like the complete solution to lazy gardening. But then you learn (too late), that vigorous perennials need a fair amount of effort every year to stop them taking over completely. Gardening programs never show the reality of trying to get rid of a plant that has got its roots inextricably meshed with another plant that you really don’t want to have to dig up as well. 
    Carmarthenshire (mild, wet, windy). Loam over shale, very slightly sloping, so free draining. Mildly acidic or neutral.


  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Ground cover plants cover the ground but don't stop when you want them to.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • PalustrisPalustris Posts: 4,307
    And they provide a really good place for weeds to grow and hide.
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