@Lyn. Does it interfere with the fuchsias cultivation or is it that the willowherb swamps them ? If it’s the former, are there any other plants that shouldn’t be grown with fuchsias, do you know ? I ask because I’m thinking of investing in a few fuchsias in the near future and wouldn’t like to see them dying off because of nearby planting.
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The smaller ones are masters of disguise and when they come up in amongst something with a similar leaf, like fuchsias, they tend to go unnoticed until they've set seed.
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
The smaller ones are masters of disguise and when they come up in amongst something with a similar leaf, like fuchsias, they tend to go unnoticed until they've set seed.
Yes. The one I get in my garden is much smaller than either rosebay willowherb or great willowherb. My wild flower book suggests it might be march willowherb - if so it doesn't even need damp soil let alone marsh!
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
We gets lots of a smaller one which I’ve never confidentially Id’d, not thatI have spent hours trying too. Maybe it’s also the Marsh one, it does appear more in areas where our soil stays reasonably moist.
I think it’s quite pretty so don’t worry too much about it, along with all my other self-seeding wildflowers 🙄
I’m more vigilant (discriminating) in some areas than others and I do pull them out when they start to set seed. It doesn’t seem to take over (she says fingers crossed) and doesn’t have a big root system
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”—Marcus Tullius Cicero East facing, top of a hill clay-loam, cultivated for centuries (7 years by me). Birmingham
I have an area of waste ground nearby that is full of willow herb. It looks like snow when the seeds take to the air. Most of them seem to aim for any exposed earth in my garden! There is also a clump of giant hogweed that looks good. From a distance.
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I think it’s quite pretty so don’t worry too much about it, along with all my other self-seeding wildflowers 🙄
I’m more vigilant (discriminating) in some areas than others and I do pull them out when they start to set seed. It doesn’t seem to take over (she says fingers crossed) and doesn’t have a big root system
East facing, top of a hill clay-loam, cultivated for centuries (7 years by me). Birmingham
There is also a clump of giant hogweed that looks good. From a distance.