Just checked in to see the response to my predicament. Thanks to all who posted. Looks like I am not alone. I don't dislike the celendine, just the fact that it swamps other flowers that are trying to be seen, and as such is so very invasive. Thanks Bob the Gardener for the link. Good luck to all of you
Contrary to most of what I'm reading here,I have no quarrel with Creeping Buttercup.It is in one border and attempting to colonise the lawn but I keep it mowed there.
I have it in one of the borders that I inherited rather than prepared and planted myself. It drives me mad - I'm no fan. I have Celandine in my churchyard and I leave it too flower there as it looks lovely. But if it dares to enter my garden war is declared.
I dont have many weeds in the garden and never see buttercup. I have no idea why. I remember hearing that wild flowers prefer poorer soil. The person that lived here originally used to grow and show chrysanthemums and apparently used to have large deliveries of horse manure each year. I wondered if that might be the reason that very few weeds seem to invade the garden. The one problem I do have is comfrey. Ive never grown it so either someone close by must, or else its lurking in the soil from a while ago. It drives me mad as it pops up everywhere.
I'll be waiting for that horrible creeping buttercup with my spade from about January next year. Unfortunately, being a mere novice gardener, I didn't know what it was this year and having planted bluebell bulbs and hardy geraniums I didn't have a clue what was what. I'll be a little wiser next year! Buttercups better look out .
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Just checked in to see the response to my predicament. Thanks to all who posted. Looks like I am not alone. I don't dislike the celendine, just the fact that it swamps other flowers that are trying to be seen, and as such is so very invasive. Thanks Bob the Gardener for the link. Good luck to all of you
I have it in one of the borders that I inherited rather than prepared and planted myself. It drives me mad - I'm no fan. I have Celandine in my churchyard and I leave it too flower there as it looks lovely. But if it dares to enter my garden war is declared.
Lawn sand has done it for me after many failed attempts digging them up or using spot lawn weedkiller.
I pulled a line of it out my pond the other day which I thought was quite funny.
It had stopped here and there to put roots into the mat of blanketweed as it was crossing to the other side
I dont have many weeds in the garden and never see buttercup. I have no idea why. I remember hearing that wild flowers prefer poorer soil. The person that lived here originally used to grow and show chrysanthemums and apparently used to have large deliveries of horse manure each year. I wondered if that might be the reason that very few weeds seem to invade the garden. The one problem I do have is comfrey. Ive never grown it so either someone close by must, or else its lurking in the soil from a while ago. It drives me mad as it pops up everywhere.
I'll be waiting for that horrible creeping buttercup with my spade from about January next year. Unfortunately, being a mere novice gardener, I didn't know what it was this year and having planted bluebell bulbs and hardy geraniums I didn't have a clue what was what. I'll be a little wiser next year! Buttercups better look out
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So i have decided to strip and empty my borders , rescuing my hellebores and other perenials , and replanting.
On the bright side of things , i have taken trips to some garden centres and got some seasonal bargains to start replanting.
Hope i have more luck next year (the biggest problem is this pest looks very much like new growth on many other emerging spring growth
I have had CB in the garden for years and yes it is spreading but a few week's after it has finished flowering you would never know it had been,
The leaves just rot back into the soil which are left bare ,whether the CB exudes a weed killer itself I do not know.
To me its a bit like a green snow, which melts but I enjoy seeing it each spring.
I agree that you can not control it, so as has been said earlier ,embrace it and marvel at nature.