How does your garden grow?

[Onelife]

Do any of your gardens suffer from Cleavers Weed? It's a real pain, and if not controlled can take over your hedges etc. It's easy to remove but seems to come back year after year. The only plus is that our girls enjoy it.

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[Ray B]

Welsh poppy

Commonly known as Papaver.?

Hi Screwy...just a bit more info...

It is one of the national flowers of Wales. Carl Linnaeus named it after us – Papaver cambrica – in 1753. Cambria is the Latin name for Wales, from our own Welsh name for our country, Cymru. In 1814 the yellow poppy was reclassified differently as a new species, Meconopsis cambrica, by Louis Viguier.

Likewise, the common poppy Papaver Rhoeas is the flower of Norfolk, though through better farming etc, you very rearly see the red cornfields now, but it still grows in abundance in North Norfolk.
It is also the flower of Essex.

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[Stephen]

A field full of poppies is a sight to behold.

[Manoverboard]

A garden full less so, we must have supplied half of Cheshire with the heads ( seeds ) from the crop we predictably got year on year. A wonderful display however, we bought a few down with us to Darzet as a reminder.

For the experts ... approx 30 inches feet tall and an extremely rich red colour

[Onelife]

Like you Mob we get lots of the tallish red poppies........last year l collected loads of the seed heads and sprinkled them along the grass verges on my dog walking route.


I think someone must have done the same with snowdrops because our village has tons of them.

[Onelife]

A garden full less so, we must have supplied half of Cheshire with the heads ( seeds ) from the crop we predictably got year on year. A wonderful display however, we bought a few down with us to Darzet as a reminder.

For the experts ... approx 30 inches feet tall and an extremely rich red colour

Yes Mob, they are poppies

[Manoverboard]

.... and wild garlic, primroses and bluebellls .... Oh yes.

Snowdrops reproduce themselves naturally, people who dig them up and replant them generally do so in neat little rows and that is not the way of nature ... Oh no.

ps .... I know more about gardening that I am letting on, eh

[Stephen]

Ark at Percy Thrower