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Is this all Campanula Portenschlagiana?

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  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,441

    Nothing a good dose of weedkiller won't sort out Charley. 

    I don't think it's as bad as the two you mention unless it's gone in an amongst the roots of other plants or rockery stones etc. There are a lot of very attractive and very invasive campanulas



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • CharleyDCharleyD Posts: 440

    Ha ha, I like it.  Yes, I'm quite handy with resolva after all the wild garlic and celadineimage 

    I'll have a look at a replacement for it first though.  I wanted about 30cm high in this bed but something that will look neat and stay in it's place.

    Thanks for your help!

     

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,128

    In this garden it grows in the crack between the house and the side path - it's very shady there -

    It was there when we moved in two and a half years ago - I sprayed it the first year but it came back - now in the summer I wait until it has flowered and pull it up before it seeds 

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





  • CharleyDCharleyD Posts: 440

    I think I'll leave it in for the summer and benefit from the flowers and then give it a good old resolva spray and dig it all up.  Dovefromabove - yours looks very similar to mine and in a similar area too. 

    In the meantime, I'll enjoy planning its replacement image

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,128

    There is no soil under mine - just the crack between the path and the wall!


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





  • CharleyDCharleyD Posts: 440

    What????  Really?!  What sort of beast have I got in our garden?  It is definitely going at the end of August.  I'm enjoying planning its replacement image

  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,109

    Charley I had it in a previous garden on a shady little area behind my garage. Heavy sticky clay - it behaved itself quite well image

    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • CharleyDCharleyD Posts: 440

    Fairygirl, I would have been happy with a 20cm growth with a nice carpet of pretty purple flowers on top, but I don't like it when it looks so untidy and overgrown.  I enjoy having a fairly structured garden with everything in it's place.   Did yours look overgrown like mine or did it stay manageable?

  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,109

    It was a bit sprawly Charley but nothing much would grow on the little bank it was on. I think the claggy soil probably kept it in check. It's not one of those manicured plants unfortunately. It was an area of the garden where the children had a playhouse and wasn't really visible from the rest of the garden. I would have had to cover the bank in bark or gravel otherwise so it suited the area. I think mine might have been poscharskyana which was lower growing. Don't have any pix - no digital camera back then!

    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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