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Do you find white clover (Trifolium Repens) to be evergreen where you are?

SalixGoldSalixGold Posts: 450
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Do you find white clover (Trifolium Repens) to be evergreen where you are? 8 votes

yes
62%
LynSherwoodArrowLiriodendronmadpenguinKay177 5 votes
no
0%
not sure
12%
thevictorian 1 vote
it depends
25%
AnniDFairygirl 2 votes

Posts

  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I've never noticed. It's just there. I don't think it dies over winter but to be honest, I've never looked. Lawn weeds can take care of themselves as far as I'm concerned. I don't interfere.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    it depends
    It depends on where it is. The bits in the gravel paths where there's no soil below them, tend to die off over winter, while the bits in the areas with more soil stay green. 
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • Jess91Jess91 Posts: 159
    edited August 2023
    I hope it is, I filled my lawn with it this spring, as its north facing and goes all sparse and rubbish in winter. I was hoping the clover,  as well as having the flowers, would keep it bulked up a bit
    Slowly building a wildlife garden, in a new build in East Yorkshire.
  • Butterfly66Butterfly66 Posts: 970
    Am sure it is here as our front lawn is mostly clover and it is still green in winter
     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
  • thevictorianthevictorian Posts: 1,279
    not sure
    I voted not sure because I think it is on the lawn but I can't be 100% certain as I've never thought about it before.
  • SalixGoldSalixGold Posts: 450
    I am hoping that clover will cover bare earth over winter and stop erosion. I am running various trials this year. Fingers crossed.
  • plant pauperplant pauper Posts: 6,904
    Pretty sure mine is or I'd have no lawn. I wrote a poem a few weeks back about it in fact. 🤣
  • SalixGoldSalixGold Posts: 450
    I supposed most people don't grow it on purpose unless they are farmers or have a lawn.
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    it depends
    I grow it on purpose - in areas along with other groundcover. Very little is in the lawn, but our lawns stay green all year round, apart from a bit of moss in winter, so we have no need of growing other things. I do see plenty in other people's lawns, especially in late spring, because they're inclined to shave them to within a millimetre of their lives for some unknown reason, so the grass gets overtaken until the next bit of rain, and then the mow and blow brigade repeat the whole cycle ad nauseum...
    The green foliage stays in situ in them though. 

    I doubt it would stop erosion though. It's very shallow rooting. There will be better plants than that if there's loose soil. 
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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