Yarrow as a weed ? Are you mad ? It is a herb with both beauty and function. This entire article is 10 years out of date. You should be warning against Glyphosate rather than encouraging chemical suppression. Or is this Monsanto at work ?
The article lost me when it called yarrow a weed! It is good to see the comments hitting out at Gardener's world about advocating the use of harmful chemicals which damage the soil and the water tables for many, many years. I stopped taking Gardener's world magazine because of this issue and sadly, may have to stop logging into the site. As has already been mentioned, yarrow is a most beneficial plant for insects and a very useful herb which was used by the Romans to stop bleeding.
Until we start working with nature rather than against it, we will be heading down a road to destruction. And don't even get me started on Monsanto, that villainous company!
thank goodness I found these comments. I did a web search because I wanted to find out what variety of Yarrow I had and all the results returned pages to deal with the "problem". I have had garden for five years, it was a plant-less desert, in that time I have finally managed to create a beautiful wild flower area. I have Yarrow and clover in my lawn and fail to understand how that is not better than grass? It is greener, does actually look nicer and is far more beneficial to nature - as per all the comments above. I have learnt so much by reading this forum, and don't get me started on the use of slug pellets....
The flowers of "posh" yarrow such as achillea summer pastels and terracotta can be dried and used in winter arrangements. It fades slightly but looks very beautiful.
Me too SazzaF. I have lots of clover. The "lawn" on one side is full of moss, even though about half of it was put down to posh new turf my sister had left over after redoing her garden. However, the other side is very nice and lots of white clover. It was suggested to me to introduce clover to help with moss, so this is what I've done. I too find it difficult to understand some of the items listed as to be trouble for a lawn, when I am also planting them in wild flower patches. I have just posted on another thread as I had read some "bad press" about one of the seeds included in some of the wild flower mix I had used.
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The article lost me when it called yarrow a weed! It is good to see the comments hitting out at Gardener's world about advocating the use of harmful chemicals which damage the soil and the water tables for many, many years. I stopped taking Gardener's world magazine because of this issue and sadly, may have to stop logging into the site. As has already been mentioned, yarrow is a most beneficial plant for insects and a very useful herb which was used by the Romans to stop bleeding.
http://whisperingearth.co.uk/2011/09/28/the-multiple-benefits-and-uses-of-yarrow/
Until we start working with nature rather than against it, we will be heading down a road to destruction. And don't even get me started on Monsanto, that villainous company!
thank goodness I found these comments. I did a web search because I wanted to find out what variety of Yarrow I had and all the results returned pages to deal with the "problem". I have had garden for five years, it was a plant-less desert, in that time I have finally managed to create a beautiful wild flower area. I have Yarrow and clover in my lawn and fail to understand how that is not better than grass? It is greener, does actually look nicer and is far more beneficial to nature - as per all the comments above. I have learnt so much by reading this forum, and don't get me started on the use of slug pellets....
The flowers of "posh" yarrow such as achillea summer pastels and terracotta can be dried and used in winter arrangements. It fades slightly but looks very beautiful.
Me too SazzaF. I have lots of clover. The "lawn" on one side is full of moss, even though about half of it was put down to posh new turf my sister had left over after redoing her garden. However, the other side is very nice and lots of white clover. It was suggested to me to introduce clover to help with moss, so this is what I've done. I too find it difficult to understand some of the items listed as to be trouble for a lawn, when I am also planting them in wild flower patches. I have just posted on another thread as I had read some "bad press" about one of the seeds included in some of the wild flower mix I had used.
If it wasn't for the extras my 'lawn' would be brown through the summer. Thank goodness for wildflowers.
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I've grown Yarrow from seed this year and have several young plants coming along nicely in the greenhouse. They have such lovely and unusual foliage