what a lovely flower. I'll be adding that to the list.
Some of the wild flowers that abound this time of year look so lovely in drifts. Just got back from a very wet 4 mile dog-walk. Came across a swathe of rosebay willowherb in full seed - looked like a cloud dotted with rosy flowers. Then saw a lovely little pure white patch of achillea standing upright in the rain - my cultivars are all mixed into the mud thanks to the heavy rain all day, so I'll be after some seed from that in a few weeks.
Also came across a well-laden wild damson - delish!
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
I think it's lovely to include some wildflowers in the garden. Mine I is strictly wildlife friendly so it helps to boost the variety of plants for bees, butterflies and many insects that abound here in Hampshire. My patch of soapwort fills a bed under an apple tree and looks beautiful.
You're both so lucky to have soapwort. I get Jack- by-the-hedge, white and red deadnettle and a tall slender wild one with small yellow flowers are regulars in my garden. They weave under and through the shrubbery coming and going at will not complaining, lovely.
I agree with Dove, I have it and it comes up everywhere and is almost impossible to get rid of, it has creeping roots and self-seeds too. Mine get a regular dose of glyphosate but it doesn't seem to stop them. Definitely a thug!
I suppose it's a matter.of personal taste when deciding what to allow a home in one's garden. Personally my only real dislikes are dandelions, creeping buttercup, bondweed, brambles and nettles. They are nigh on impossible to get rid of unless you resort to weedkiller, which i won't use as I try to give wildlife a haven
Having said that, the bonus is a magnificent crop of huge juicy blackberries this year (even one or two brambles in the soapwort bed! I also leave 3 patches of nettles near the buddlias (8 of) for butterfly use.
Our garden backs on to farmland so lots of weeds blow in - I do consider them as pptential thugs. Conclusion - garden with nature when you can, there is nothing more pleasurable than sharing the garden with Mother Nature.!
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Hi Ann, a wildflower, yes. I think it was used to make soap in former times.
I've got some growing where I don't want it, coming up through one of those yellow euonymus(es), but I can't get it started where I do want it
I don't like yellow leaves and pink flowers together
In the sticks near Peterborough
It can be very invasive - I keep a strict weeding regime at the foot of the fence separating our garden from next doors
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
what a lovely flower. I'll be adding that to the list.
Some of the wild flowers that abound this time of year look so lovely in drifts. Just got back from a very wet 4 mile dog-walk. Came across a swathe of rosebay willowherb in full seed - looked like a cloud dotted with rosy flowers. Then saw a lovely little pure white patch of achillea standing upright in the rain - my cultivars are all mixed into the mud thanks to the heavy rain all day, so I'll be after some seed from that in a few weeks.
Also came across a well-laden wild damson - delish!
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
I'll have another go at transplanting mine to where I want it this winter. I think it's a lovely flower
In the sticks near Peterborough
You're both so lucky to have soapwort. I get Jack- by-the-hedge, white and red deadnettle and a tall slender wild one with small yellow flowers are regulars in my garden. They weave under and through the shrubbery coming and going at will
not complaining, lovely.
I agree with Dove, I have it and it comes up everywhere and is almost impossible to get rid of, it has creeping roots and self-seeds too. Mine get a regular dose of glyphosate but it doesn't seem to stop them. Definitely a thug!
Having said that, the bonus is a magnificent crop of huge juicy blackberries this year (even one or two brambles in the soapwort bed! I also leave 3 patches of nettles near the buddlias (8 of) for butterfly use.
Our garden backs on to farmland so lots of weeds blow in - I do consider them as pptential thugs. Conclusion - garden with nature when you can, there is nothing more pleasurable than sharing the garden with Mother Nature.!
It's all about taste and style of gardening isn't it?
I love to have the wild plants and the wildlife that goes with them.
I was in a GC on Sunday and watched what people were buying, lot sof which I wouldn't consider for my garden
In the sticks near Peterborough