Are you troubled by weeds?

[shelagh]

These are the weeds of this month.  Brian has tried pulling them out but the bulb never comes with them.

[David Nicholson]

But very pretty 'weeds'?

[Gerdk]

My 'favorite' weed is the lesser celandine - Ficaria verna - what a Monster!

At first I admired the different colours of flowers and foliage - now I don't know how to get rid
of the carpet-like mess between my snowdrops.

Gerd

[Neil]

If you pull the leaves of earlier in the year after 2 to 4 years the bulb will have depleted its energy and will have withered away.

[johnw]

These are the weeds of this month.  Brian has tried pulling them out but the bulb never comes with them.

Shelagh - I sympathize, I keep pulling the leaves off early every year and they still flower and re-leaf.  Scilla siberica is even worse here.  I try to collect any missed seed pods too but fear old seeds are still sprouting.

Pretty they may be but they choke everything nearby to death, even dwarf shrubs.

I'm hoping to see some progress this spring should it and they ever appear.

john     

[Darren]

Spanish bluebells inherited from the previous owners of the house 13 years ago. Got on top of them by pouring glyphosate into the centre of the rosettes. Missed a couple of years so now they are back....

Muscari latifolium and Chives are other bulbs showing aggressive tendencies here.

Corydalis malkensis, Cyclamen coum and Anemone blanda seed themselves too but oddly enough I don't object to those.

[johnw]

Spanish bluebells inherited from the previous owners of the house 13 years ago. Got on top of them by pouring glyphosate into the centre of the rosettes. Missed a couple of years so now they are back....

Darren  - I'd almost fogotten about my decade trying to rid the garden of the Spanish bluebells.  In one area I resorted to the spade and must have angered a Mahonia which though long gone still sends up suckers.

john

[fermi de Sousa]

These are the weeds of this month.  Brian has tried pulling them out but the bulb never comes with them.

Hi Shelagh,
Are they chionodoxa/scilla?
I struggle to keep them going in our garden!
As they say "One woman's weed is another man's treasure"! 
Allium triquetrum is a major weedy bulb here,
cheers
fermi

[Jupiter]

Alstroemeria psittacina      Pest.

[Lesley Cox]

My few chionodoxas never reach weed proportions either but a real menace is Acis autumnalis which seeds everywhere and invades cushions and mats. I try to strip off the pods before they ripen but always miss some.

My worst weeds are less decorative. The one I hate most is the little native cress. I don't mind the other, popping one as the seedlings are so easy to pull out and it is annual anyway. But the native version (which I understand is a problem in the UK too?) is perennial, with a long and brittle tap root which breaks if one pulls it and regenerates, spreading and splitting into many branchlets to make wide mats. The almost invisible flowers give way to hair-fine capsules which spit the seeds everywhere. The seedlings are very tiny and are well established with long roots before they are noticed. Grrrrr.

[Darren]

Alstroemeria psittacina      Pest.

A. hookeri seedlings are popping up in neighbouring pots in my greenhouse but isn't really a pest and the flowers are nice.
Can't get rid of it without literally throwing it in the bin. Two flowering size plants - from habitat (Chileflora) seed - were donated to the members plant stall at the Kendal show the last two years and then came home with me again.

[Michael J Campbell]

Freesia laxa are my weeds, they are popping up in the sand plunge,under the benches in the greenhouse, in scree beds and shrub borders all over the garden.  It doesn't matter what I sow in seed pots it is magically converted to freesia laxa.  Cyclamen Hederifolium and coum  are following close behind.

[Darren]

I doesn't matter what I sow in seed pots it is magically converted to freesia laxa. 

A common problem with anything called 'Lapeirousia' in seed exchanges....

[GordonT]

Campanula rapunculoides and Equisetum arvense are my personal curses! Especially if the Campanula has hidden itself beneath large rocks in the landscape. The spring carpet of chickweed is minor in comparison.

[shelagh]

At least the Allium could go into soups