Not only does it spread by runners, but also by seeds which stay viable in the ground for many many years and germinate every time the soil is turned, so leaving it for those fleetingly pretty yellow flowers is not a particularly good idea! The damn stuff also keeps growing all winter and is a nightmare on my clay soil; Clearing it from the veg plots is a constant battle. Not a fan.
A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
Hi , why not use a systemic weed killer , half fill a jam jar with weed killer and washing up liquid and put leading stem of the plant into the solution and cover the jar so as none off your pets can get at it hopefully this will solve your problem ,it worked for in getting of bindweed
I have been told that the plant that appears now and disappears within approximately a month to six weeks is a variety of wild buttercup. It is impossible to get rid of and creeps round other plants but then disappears with no apparent harm being done. The yellow petals are shaped differently to buttercups and it is more ground cover. The leaves are heart shaped and the roots are part dandelion type but with little seeds attached. They look a little like minature potatoes. Does this ring a bell with anyone, and what can I do to get rid of it. It isn't too unsightly but anything that is growing at this time of year can't be seen until it goes.
Sandra, the plant you describe is Celandine. The problem with that one are the tiny bulbous tubers which are easily spread by any kind of planting or digging near a clump. RHS advice here:
If it just looked pretty and didn't swamp all the other plants, flowers and other beautiful wild flowers it could stay. However, nothing else has a chance to grow. It can be 15" above ground strangling anything in its vincinity and have a root system just as deep as it is tall above ground. I am all for nature, I am creating a wood, a garden, a wildlife pond, a wild area, and vegetable plot but the creeping buttercup is 'spoiling everything'. Do I just give in and let it take over the whole of my garden??
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i have been digging it up for the last 12 months ! I swear it leaps from the lawn on a parachute during the dark hours!!
Not only does it spread by runners, but also by seeds which stay viable in the ground for many many years and germinate every time the soil is turned, so leaving it for those fleetingly pretty yellow flowers is not a particularly good idea! The damn stuff also keeps growing all winter and is a nightmare on my clay soil; Clearing it from the veg plots is a constant battle. Not a fan.
Clearing it from anywhere is a constnat battle here. Ghastly stuff.
Hi , why not use a systemic weed killer , half fill a jam jar with weed killer and washing up liquid and put leading stem of the plant into the solution and cover the jar so as none off your pets can get at it hopefully this will solve your problem ,it worked for in getting of bindweed
Derek
Sandra, the plant you describe is Celandine. The problem with that one are the tiny bulbous tubers which are easily spread by any kind of planting or digging near a clump. RHS advice here:
http://apps.rhs.org.uk/advicesearch/profile.aspx?pid=187
If it just looked pretty and didn't swamp all the other plants, flowers and other beautiful wild flowers it could stay. However, nothing else has a chance to grow. It can be 15" above ground strangling anything in its vincinity and have a root system just as deep as it is tall above ground. I am all for nature, I am creating a wood, a garden, a wildlife pond, a wild area, and vegetable plot but the creeping buttercup is 'spoiling everything'. Do I just give in and let it take over the whole of my garden??