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Yarrow - Achillea

m_tariqsm_tariqs Posts: 23
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Hello. I planted a yarrow this year and its done pretty well and still flowering. I like it a lot. I was reading that wild yarrow can be very invasive. However the cultivated one is ok isnt it? Thinking of getting some seeds for next year. What are your thoughts about the invasive aspect please? Many thanks
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  • gjautosgjautos Posts: 429
    I've never found it invasive in my garden. Has been planted for around 7 years and is still well behaved
  • a1154a1154 Posts: 1,108
    No, only the wild one spreads easily. 
    I love it and have 4 different ones.  The only one I didn’t like was the yellow, I think its cloth of gold. It was really tall and floppy. I’ve never grown from seed. It’s really easy to propagate from existing plants.
  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    It can help other plants nearby resist disease. Deadheading promotes more flowers too.
    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
  • plant pauperplant pauper Posts: 6,904
    GardenerSuze said:
    It can help other plants nearby resist disease. Deadheading promotes more flowers too.
    Good because I accidentally have 90! 🤣
  • LiriodendronLiriodendron Posts: 8,328
    It tends to wander about a bit in my garden, and is currently trying to spread into the lawn.  Very pretty though.  (Achillea 'Summer Pastels', grown from seed.)
    Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    For some strange reason, the wild form proliferates quite happy in our grass and wild areas but I can't get my seed sown achilleas of any colour to grow past seedling stage.  I shall keep trying tho as they're excellent for insects and thus birds.

    i wouldn't do any more dead heading this late but let them go to seed and only remove the stalks in spring as that too provides food for birds and winter shelter for insects.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    I found similar here @Obelixx … a ‘lawn’ full of yarrow in the front but Achillea just refused to grow in the border alongside it. 

    I couldn’t raise seedlings either, but bought plants seem
    happy in the back garden with very similar soil and conditions. 🤷‍♀️  

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





  • gjautosgjautos Posts: 429
    Dovefromabove said:
    I found similar here @Obelixx … a ‘lawn’ full of yarrow in the front but Achillea just refused to grow in the border alongside it. 

    I couldn’t raise seedlings either, but bought plants seem
    happy in the back garden with very similar soil and conditions. 🤷‍♀️  
    I find that with lots of plants. I planted Stachys in a particular spot, it seeded everywhere and died where I'd initially planted it!
  • Janie BJanie B Posts: 963
    Funnily enough I'm going to my first ever Gardening Club meeting tomorrow night in our little village ... and there's a talk about Achillea! I'm hoping to be a lot better informed after... 
    Lincolnshire
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    I don't find any of them to be invasive, but as always - it comes down to your conditions. 
    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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