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    plant id needed please?

    Can anyone tell me what this is please?
    I got it from a school fete several years ago and never found out what it was. It dies back every winter and comes forth again every spring/summer. I originally planted it in the back garden. It gets very wet there. I dug it out and replanted in the front garden where it is quite dry and it does equally well there. The one in the back that I thought I had dug out came back again just as vigorously as it had grown before. I think it is indestructible!

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    Hi Weekendwellies -

    I'm only a newbie so someone more experienced may have a better answer - but I think it's yellow "Loosestrife" - as I have some on the corner of my veggie patch. Grows and spreads in clumps and flowers along a tall spike. Dont know its proper name Im afraid. As you say it seems impossible to kill off!

    chou

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    • #3
      yep, it is Lysimachia punctata, aka garden yellow loosestrife. I grow it in the shedy part of the garden,

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      • #4
        Thats great, thanks guys.

        I quite like it. Sometimes indestructible is good - especially for me

        “If your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life.”

        "What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." Ralph Waldo Emerson

        Charles Churchill : A dog will look up on you; a cat will look down on you; however, a pig will see you eye to eye and know it has found an equal
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        • #5
          I cut mine back close to the ground once it goes crispy and starts dying off - and it comes back every year just as strong. We have a huge clump of it opposite the courgettes and it attracts loads of bees so I guess it must be good for encouraging pollination. Pretty too!

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          • #6
            I love the stuff. I bung big handfuls of it in vases - you can 'go big' with a loosetrife arrangement.

            There is a wild form which I think is more elegant. Here it is, in our wild area, with Purple Loosetrife behind it.

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            • #7
              Wow didn't know you could get purple stuff as well - I will have to look out for some of that, its so pretty!

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              • #8
                I have some of this as a 'volunteer' in my garden - nice to have a name for it
                I was feeling part of the scenery
                I walked right out of the machinery
                My heart going boom boom boom
                "Hey" he said "Grab your things
                I've come to take you home."

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                • #9
                  You're so lucky, I'd love to have some loosestrife in my garden

                  Regards

                  Clare
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                  • #10
                    You're all weird.

                    (I hate yellow. And pink)
                    All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by Two_Sheds View Post
                      You're all weird.

                      (I hate yellow. And pink)
                      Thats why ya luv us

                      “If your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life.”

                      "What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." Ralph Waldo Emerson

                      Charles Churchill : A dog will look up on you; a cat will look down on you; however, a pig will see you eye to eye and know it has found an equal
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                      • #12
                        It's a volunteer in our garden too! Came under the fence, we've got a lovely big clump now. Can I split it easily to spread it around the garden? If it's growing for free it can be any colour it likes here!
                        Life is too short for drama & petty things!
                        So laugh insanely, love truly and forgive quickly!

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by Two_Sheds View Post
                          You're all weird.

                          (I hate yellow. And pink)
                          I don't mind either. But I hate them together. It reminds me of Battenburg cake. The only cake I don't like!
                          Last edited by Flummery; 19-07-2010, 09:02 AM.
                          Whoever plants a garden believes in the future.

                          www.vegheaven.blogspot.com Updated March 9th - Spring

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