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Amongst the Wild Garlic

buddyandmorsebuddyandmorse Posts: 129
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Dear Members.

Taken today in woodland.

All tips gratefully appreciated.

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  • Silver surferSilver surfer Posts: 4,719
    edited May 2023
    Cardamine pratensis...common name Ladys smock.


    Perthshire. SCOTLAND .
  • bertrand-mabelbertrand-mabel Posts: 2,697
    Not sure why the title said what it did as not wild garlic but as @Silver surfer says ladys smock. Which is in a decline in many meadows nowadays.
  • LoxleyLoxley Posts: 5,698
    The title was 'Amongst the wild garlic'.

    Lady's smock was one of the first wildflowers I knew by name and always a favourite of mine. 
    "What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour". 
  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    edited May 2023
    I know it as Cuckoo Flower; it's one of my favourite wild flowers.

    I have lots in my lawn where it resists lawn-weed killer.  It stays low and green under my mowing regime, but never flowers.  When I turned part of the lawn into a wild flower area, the grass grew long and the cuckoo flower disappeared.
     location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand.
    "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Lady’s Smock aka Cuckoo flower was prolific in the damp lower stretches of an ancient hay meadow over the other side of the stream from a previous garden … sadly a new farm tenant began a regime of spraying the broad-leaves weeds and applying nitrogen in an attempt to increase the yield and now  the Lady’s Smock hardly ever appears there despite the spraying regime having been halted. Hopefully it will increase bit by bit. 

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





  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    It's plentiful round here - I kept some that was growing in the 'garden'  [one of the few things that was!] when I moved in, and have it in various places in the now. I love it too @Loxley. Just getting going now.

    Lady's smock for me in the past, but once I learned it's correct name, I now use that, although usually just the Cardamine bit .  :)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • buddyandmorsebuddyandmorse Posts: 129
    Silver surfer said:
    Cardamine pratensis...common name Ladys smock.



    Dear Member.

    Thank you for the info and loverly pixs.

    : )
  • buddyandmorsebuddyandmorse Posts: 129
    bertrand-mabel said:
    Not sure why the title said what it did as not wild garlic but as @Silver surfer says ladys smock. Which is in a decline in many meadows nowadays.

    bertrand-mabel said:
    Not sure why the title said what it did as not wild garlic but as @Silver surfer says ladys smock. Which is in a decline in many meadows nowadays.

    Dear Member.

    Thank you for the info.

    : )


  • buddyandmorsebuddyandmorse Posts: 129
    bédé said:
    I know it as Cuckoo Flower; it's one of my favourite wild flowers.

    I have lots in my lawn where it resists lawn-weed killer.  It stays low and green under my mowing regime, but never flowers.  When I turned part of the lawn into a wild flower area, the grass grew long and the cuckoo flower disappeared.

    bédé said:
    I know it as Cuckoo Flower; it's one of my favourite wild flowers.

    I have lots in my lawn where it resists lawn-weed killer.  It stays low and green under my mowing regime, but never flowers.  When I turned part of the lawn into a wild flower area, the grass grew long and the cuckoo flower disappeared.

    Dear Member.

    Thank you for the info.

    : )

  • buddyandmorsebuddyandmorse Posts: 129
    Dovefromabove said:
    Lady’s Smock aka Cuckoo flower was prolific in the damp lower stretches of an ancient hay meadow over the other side of the stream from a previous garden … sadly a new farm tenant began a regime of spraying the broad-leaves weeds and applying nitrogen in an attempt to increase the yield and now  the Lady’s Smock hardly ever appears there despite the spraying regime having been halted. Hopefully it will increase bit by bit. 

    Dear Member.

    Thank you for the info.

    : )

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