One I liked was even fed for a whole summer till I saw it on the street I thought it was nice looking plant.. it has green purple leaves with pink flowers and grows about the size of a upturned breakfast bowl. Any ideas ?
Herb Robert is stinky and invasive but it's got beautiful red foliage all year round and little pink flowers. I've been trying to get birdsfoot trefoil (eggs and bacon) to grow in my lawn but without success. I've seen it locally so it must do OK in my type of soil.
I love buttercups too, of all type. How can anything with such a cute name be a weed?
Best thing to do is buy the seed and grow it into little plugs then plant into lawn. Seeds are so small, even if it does blow into your garden it wont end up on a bit of soil.
Wonder what the difference between a weed and a wildflower is? Someone mentioned cuckoo pint as a weed,i have one in my garden that i bought a couple of years ago. That said,i know it grows wild in a little copse up the road
Years ago, when my children were children, we went on a little train up a French mountain, think it could have been Mont Blanc. There was a sea of gorgeous pink - Rosebay Willowherb, loved it, so beautiful. But it doesn't like my garden, too dry in summer.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
I hate to insult the Primrose with name weed, but it spreads in my garden quite agressively even invading the lawn. It doesn't help that I cant bring myself to pull them up, except when carefully digging them up to pass to friends. What surprised me was that they colonised an area where few normal weeds care to grow. This was an area of clay with barely any topsoil under heavy shade.
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Herb Robert is stinky and invasive but it's got beautiful red foliage all year round and little pink flowers. I've been trying to get birdsfoot trefoil (eggs and bacon) to grow in my lawn but without success. I've seen it locally so it must do OK in my type of soil.
I love buttercups too, of all type. How can anything with such a cute name be a weed?
I think if it weren't so successful (and stinky) people would like it more.
It's only a weed if you don't want it in your garden.
Cow parsley, but as I prefer to call it, Queen Anne's lace
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Years ago, when my children were children, we went on a little train up a French mountain, think it could have been Mont Blanc. There was a sea of gorgeous pink - Rosebay Willowherb, loved it, so beautiful. But it doesn't like my garden, too dry in summer.
I hate to insult the Primrose with name weed, but it spreads in my garden quite agressively even invading the lawn. It doesn't help that I cant bring myself to pull them up, except when carefully digging them up to pass to friends. What surprised me was that they colonised an area where few normal weeds care to grow. This was an area of clay with barely any topsoil under heavy shade.