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Shall I let my path disappear?

B3B3 Posts: 27,505
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I have a crazy paving path that runs the length of my garden with flower beds in both sides for much of the length. Because it was too hot for me to weed them out, the cracks are filled with lush VB about 6" high and also other self seeders that I like. The rain has been much appreciated by the path dwellers😉 I'm inclined to just let them grow and walk up the grass. It's not going to be much more effort to clear them next year if I change my mind. What do you think?
In London. Keen but lazy.
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  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    my "path" looks pretty similar, some of my VB are pushing 6' rather than 6"
    Devon.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Would you recommend it?
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • McRazzMcRazz Posts: 440
    edited September 2022
    I aim for this all over my garden and actually encourage it.

    The controlled but chaotic theme of a garden reclaiming itself is an awesome look IMO. I harvest lots of Verbascum, Verbena, Hollyhock, Poppy and Forget-me-not seeds and throw them about my driveway and paths with reckless abandon. It drives the wife absolutely bonkers but I love it!

    Because of this i now have to walk up my grass too  :D

    In Montys USA series he visited the garden of an influential lady designer who's garden followed this exact ethos. Perhaps somebody can remember her name?
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Rewilding my path - even!
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • LG_LG_ Posts: 4,360
    McRazz said:
    In Montys USA series he visited the garden of an influential lady designer who's garden followed this exact ethos. Perhaps somebody can remember her name?
    Do you mean Bunny Mellon?
    'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
    - Cicero
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Since we had the first real rain for months a few days ago, weeds have sprung up all over the place ... it's so good to see something green growing that I don't feel any urgency to remove them ... I will have to (hopefully before @Busy-Lizzie comes for coffee) but while I'm under the weather I'm ignoring them ... 

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





  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    @Dovefromabove
    Hope you're feeling better soon - even if the weeds don't. Did you get some vinca out before it revived? I got quite a bit of it out but first proper rain, it revived - what I suspected might happen😒
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Thanks @B3 ... I've done nothing in the garden for what seems like an age other than pick beans, tomatoes, courgettes and squashes .........  :/

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





  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    @Dovefromabove please don't worry about the weeds, I have them too. Been weeding out masses of baby stinging nettles from next door's chicken run, now neglected as his chickens have all died from old age. Don't mention ground elder!

    I have tall yellow verbascums that have suddenly sprung up, been potting up some for Dove but the ones between the paving are impossible to get up.
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • joanna65joanna65 Posts: 75
    I leave all the self seeders in my path and paving, if they want to be there, are growing well and not really getting in the way of other planting then let them be. It is good to actually see things  growing again after the summer we had. 
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