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Germander Speedwell

BarneyCBarneyC Posts: 13

New home and new Lawn.

Front Lawn has a large section of GERNANDER SPEEDWELL so I have been told. Can't get rid of it. Need Help Please!!

 

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  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445

    I've got some in my lawn, it's very petty.



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445

    Lawns with interlopers are far more interesting than a monoculture.image



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • chickychicky Posts: 10,409

    I love it too - such a pretty blueimage.  

    Maybe not ideal ifyou want a bowling green lawn (don't see many of them around hereimage) - but if you want it gone I should imagine any broad leaf lawn weed killer would sort it out?

  • LoxleyLoxley Posts: 5,698

    Germander speedwell seems to like the drier, compacted bits of my lawn (i.e. most of it) where the grass struggles. I would work on your lawn to improve the conditions for grass, rather than completely eliminate the speedwell, which is extremely pretty and certainly nicer than sparse grass with the earth showing. Aerate, scarify, reseed etc. (These are autumn jobs). The aim being more grass and less speedwell, rather than a total grass monoculture.

    Personally I am happy with mat forming wildflowers in my lawn though, and just let them get on with it. I've got daisies, speedwell, tormentil, clover etc. I feel loathe to mow the lawn sometimes, and lose the flowers, but these plants are well suited to being sheared every week. 

    https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-ojEhRMO3HZc/VXK5-8fxrjI/AAAAAAAAOms/Ydf17wEcspc/w800-h533-no/IMGP9091.JPG

     

     

    "What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour". 
  • BarneyCBarneyC Posts: 13

    What you all mean is - you can't get rid of it anyway so put up with the nice pretty flower!!!

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