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May I ask what is this?

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  • McRazzMcRazz Posts: 440
    Seems a shame, adds a splash of colour to an otherwise bare patch of earth. Each to their own. 
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    edited October 2023
    Yours looks pretty. My pink one hasn't spread at all.
  • LG_LG_ Posts: 4,360
    I've had that pink one. I liked it to start with but it spread like mad (both seed and root) and is difficult to eliminate. I think I've more or less got rid of it now, but there's always a bit more here and there. 
    'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
    - Cicero
  • bcpathomebcpathome Posts: 1,313
    I think oxalis is beautiful. If it were me I’d keep it 
  • jamesholtjamesholt Posts: 593
    Here in texas we pay to buy it at the local nursery lol!
  • jamesholtjamesholt Posts: 593
    Here are some i bought
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    I have fond memories of a cottage garden in the village where I grew up … it had pink oxalis alongside the garden path … so pretty .,, I looked forward to seeing it and the foliage looking like four-leaved clover on my way to school.  
    It’s not invasive … just an easy and attractive plant. 



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





  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    theno2soco said:
    Ok, thanks all. I will remove it.
    Why? It's pretty and the replies here said it's the yellow one that is the weed, not the pink one. I wouldn't remove it.
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    People are free to make choices in their own gardens. The OP only asked us what it was.
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Yes the OP did only ask what it was, but they may have been put off keeping it, by comments about its invasiveness, which others have pointed out may not be true.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

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