[Magdalen] weather + garden

[Marion Thompson]

Campanula rapunculoides or Creeping bellflower.  Oy.  I can't believe 
that I once planted it deliberately having been beguiled by the pretty 
stalks of blue flowers.  Twenty-five years on it had infested every 
single part of the garden.  There's no getting rid of it, because it 
self-sows very generously as well as multiplying from rhizomes and 
deeper tubers, all parts of which will generate new plants.

Marion, a pilgrim

On 3/21/2016 8:59 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen wrote:
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> In a message dated 3/21/2016 7:07:47 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> marionwhitevale at gmail.com writes:
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> They  prospered and are absolutely  everywhere>>>>>>>>
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> Years ago I kept seeing what I thought was a rather attractive plant/
> groundcover in portions of my older brother's yard.  finally, I dug  some
> up to plant in my yard.
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> Then my brother discovered this activity and giggled that I'd picked
> a notorious weed that is nearly impossible to eradicate once it gets  going:
> "Creeping Charlie."
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> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glechoma_hederacea
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> Fortunately for me, the stuff didn't like where I planted it, and died  out
> completely.  It is a pretty plant, nonetheless.
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> David Strang.
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