Just clearing out a messy border to plant some shrubs and was wondering if anyone can identify these as perennial weeds, or have they been planted by previous owners?
They are in various places around the garden and come back each year.
I used to have a few white clumps but have a feeling daughter may have acquired some when she was digging up some of the blue ones last year for her garden
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Grays....they are forget-me-nots and seed themselves around. If you don't want them just pull them out but expect seedlings to appear for next year.
They're hard to get rid of, even when you don't let them flower. I think that's why they're called forget me nots.
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I used to have a few white clumps but have a feeling daughter may have acquired some when she was digging up some of the blue ones last year for her garden
My mother died in April - we used this poem at her memorial service
A Bed of Forget-Me-Nots
by Christina Rossetti
Is love so prone to change and rot
We are fain to rear forget-me-not
By measure in a garden plot? —
I love its growth at large and free
By untrod path and unlopped tree,
Or nodding by the unpruned hedge,
Or on the water's dangerous edge
Where flags and meadowsweet blow rank
With rushes on the quaking bank.
Love is not taught in learning's school,
Love is not parcelled out by rule;
Hath curb or call an answer got? —
So free must be forget-me-not.
Give me the flame no dampness dulls,
The passion of the instinctive pulse,
Love steadfast as a fixed star,
Tender as doves with nestlings are,
More large than time, more strong than death:
This all creation travails of —
She groans not for a passing breath —
This is forget-me-not and love.
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They pop up everywhere in this garden and make me smile
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Oh dear, and I've dug the vast majority out
Beautiful poem. Dove and memories of your mother
I'm thinking these are weeds amongst them though? Been digging these up everywhere.
They are aquilegias. Promiscuous and seed them selves around. Let them flower then dig out the ones you don't like.
Those look like aquilegia also known as Granny's Bonnet or Columbine http://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening/howtogrow/3299601/How-to-grow-aquilegia.html
another gorgeous cottage garden plant.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I let them seed around which is fine in my type of garden.