What Not To Plant

Palustris - 2 of my kids were concieved by apogamy, I swear!! :D :D
I like montbretia personally, but the corms even survive a good composting and they pop up were you least expect them!!

 

Im not going to say a word

 

Sorry Dendrobium, didn't mean to fall foul of the Crocosmia Protection Society, and yes they are pretty I do have Lucifer, very well behaved and a bright yellow one (don't know the name) the same, it is just the one that spreads like mad that I have a bit of a problem with. It is all over Cornwall now and moving east as I speak. :eek:

 

well, if you can encourage it to head northwards, I won't mind!! :D

is it that smaller orange one with the lighter green leaves? Must look and see if there really is a CPS!! :rolleyes: If not, maybe I'll have to invent it!

 

It is flame orange, light leaves. It does look rather wonderful, which is why I planted it in the first place. I can post you a hundredweight if you like for your protection.

 

now that would be a challenge for the postie! :D

He's already convinced we're mad!

I certainly wouldn't mind protecting some, but maybe not a hundredweight! Anything you might like as a swap? Some alchemilla mollis, perhaps?? (evil grin!!) But seriously..... I do have quite a few spare seeds, so I may well have things you'd like :rolleyes:

 

I have spent the last 20 years trying to eradicate lamium from my garden. Also comfrey is a nuisance and seems to grow overnight.
I don't mind violets but not too many and I always feel like a vandal when ridding the borders of them. Also a spring flowering large plant with rough hairy leaves and tiny starry blue flowers was a real thug in my garden for many years. It seems to have disappeared now but it was certainly prolific and I was forever digging up the long tap roots.

 

PETAL..dont worry about the comfrey throw it in a large container with some water put a lid on it and it will rot down into free plant food..I have an old dustbin that i throw mine into..I also throw the odd netal in with it as well as that also makes plant food.. :rolleyes:

 

Interesting to hear about the comfrey, does any comfrey work or just the vulgar kind. I thinned mine out this year it would have been nice to put them to good use.

 

I've got that one petal, the one with rough hairy leaves and tiny blue flowers, it's a devil to get rid of but I don't mind some of it growing as the bees love it: don't really know what it is either!

But I do like alchemills mollis :D am I mad or what?

I have made some great plant food from comfrey this year thanks to wildflowers expertise and it's easily pulled up and contained.

 

Hi Petal .........Long time no see,nice to see you around again.

 

Dendrodium, pm your address and I wil be happy to send you some, you don't need to send me seeds or anything.
Got the Alchemilla (now seeded into the lawn) and 3 types of comfrey. As Wildflower says, the common one is great for making liquid feed.
Is the rough leaved plant with small blue flowers Echium Vulgare by any chance? It is a native beloved of bees and butterflies but the roots go down a long way - I have this too.

 

sounds more like alkanets

 

i planted dill last year on me plot and that has come back all over the place..... in me spuds, in the beans, in the onions.....
i wouldnt mind so much if i knew what i could use it for...? :(

 

dill is used for fish dishes eg gravadlax .... marinated salmon