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Poppy invasion - help!
Bonnieweething
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Its our first summer here, the garden is blooming and there are some really lovely established plants... however I am a little alarmed by the huge number of orange and yellow poppies sprouting up from every nook and cranny in the rockery (which is a large feature in our sloping garden)... they are taking over, smothering plants and growing out through shrubs. I am unsure how I will ever get them out, I dont want to spray them as this might kill the everything else around them... any advice?
Do I need to dig them out... how do I get to the ones rooted deep in the rockery under the big boulders!!??
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Sounds like Meconopsis cambrica, welsh poppy.
Don't let them set any more seed if you don't want them.
you could paint the ones you cant dig out with a gel weedkiller. They are resistant to being dug out even when not under a boulder
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