They will flower and very quickly produce seeds in pretty red seed heads. Next year they will all germinate ad infinitum. They have been called many things, mostly by me. I think mine is allium roseum but there are others.
We inherited the stuff, so not guilty of planting it, but the absolute clear streets ahead winner of the PITA stakes in my garden is Hypericum Calycinum. It spreads under pavings, through walls and has an unassailable foothold and cannot be eradicated short of digging over the entire garden with a backhoe. All I can do is tear out yards of it each year in an attempt to contain it's quest. Nightmare!!
Here I am waiting for the weather to get a bit warmer before I plant out the lily of the valley I purchased 🙈 looks like I'll have to find a pot for it instead of planting in groundÂ
I always thought it was a plant that needed fussing but seeing it growing on the hedgebank changed my perception of it. I also have it beneath an ash tree, where again, there's water in winter (I'm in Cumbria) but the tree roots really dry out the ground in summer. But that's just how it grows here -- in SE London it could have different requirements. I hope it gives you a lot of pleasure anyhow. I wonder if it works in a pot permanently? Or better to pot a bit up in autumn to flower in spring? Easier to enjoy the scent in a pot perhaps.
I have planted an acanthus spinosa this year - I deliberately avoided mollis. But is it actually any better does anyone know? Or will I be regretting it?
Acanthus spinosus doesn't run, for me. The size of the clump increases like most other perennials, but it does reappear from the smallest piece of root left behind. Move it and you end up with two - the one that was moved and the one that's regrown from bits of root.
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
Campanula. We inherited a small patch when we moved in, thought ooh that's pretty and let it spread. We have two inch thick mats of it creating its own soil underneath colonising the whole brick paved driveway, and at the base of every single wall. We had a major attack on it a couple of years ago and ended up with a small skipload of stringy stems. The stems break easily, as do the roots, and if you leave just one piece, next year you have a two foot square area of ground covered.
This year we have had revenge. The extension needed four foot deep trenches for concrete foundations, and the soil+roots was taken away!Â
Down in Devon, dark orange hangy downy crocosmia and day lilies all over the shop. Can’t get my purple sensation to stick and end up planting fresh bulbs each year which is odd as I thought the colonise really easilyÂ
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They have been called many things, mostly by me.
I think mine is allium roseum but there are others.
It spreads under pavings, through walls and has an unassailable foothold and cannot be eradicated short of digging over the entire garden with a backhoe.
All I can do is tear out yards of it each year in an attempt to contain it's quest.
Nightmare!!
But that's just how it grows here -- in SE London it could have different requirements. I hope it gives you a lot of pleasure anyhow.
I wonder if it works in a pot permanently? Or better to pot a bit up in autumn to flower in spring? Easier to enjoy the scent in a pot perhaps.
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This year we have had revenge. The extension needed four foot deep trenches for concrete foundations, and the soil+roots was taken away!Â