My first post on a discovery of a hybrid of this plant is here and that was a few years ago. After I transplanted the hitchhiker from my pot of pansies it put up its beauty the next spring in photos HERE. Yes, it is a little bolder in color and size than the wild variety below, but both are invasive.
Val (who no longer blogs as much) pointed out what a weed this was in England and now that I have a really weedy version on the other side of my driveway competing with my lawn...which is not such a great lawn anyway... I am enjoying the invasion. I think I will just leave this ground cover even though the blooms will stop once the weather gets warm.
How pretty! A weed is just a flower whose potential goes unrecognized...
ReplyDeleteYour speedwell is beautiful. What a wee is, is a value judgement. I have tiny wild violets in my funky lawn. Someone is always offering to eradicate them. No thanks, I look forward to them every early spring.
ReplyDeleteI meant weed of course. Nuts, new keyboard, old fingers.
ReplyDeleteThose are really pretty blossoms! Is it is sun or shade? I need something for a patch of bad grass and a ground cover like this would be great. It's a very sunny spot, though, and the soil isn't good soil.
ReplyDeleteI love Pauline's comment about weeds being flowers "whose potential goes unrecognized."
Cheryl K...It likes the sun...tolerates partial shade.
ReplyDeleteThanks! I think I'll try them on that sunny spot, this year.
ReplyDeleteI have that too, Tabor, and 'weed' (or not :D) is all in the eye of the beholder. I adore it. And as I battle and cuss the Bermuda grass, I would be one happy duck to have it COMPLETELY replace anything in my yard that is supposed to resemble 'lawn'. LOL I am sooooo loving the awakening Spring here, Tabor. I am absolutely reveling in it. Each Spring my little 'stick's, and perennials look more like what I hope for them. I heard one time "first they sleep, then they creep, then they LEAP", and that's what I go through my yard chanting. :) I just came in from 'dragging the hem of my 'gown' (in my case, sweatpants :d) through the dew' (as Sharon Lovejoy says) looking at each little sprout---and the birds, oh Tabor, have I died already and gone to heaven???? :D
ReplyDeleteweed or not it carries a bit of the beauty...
ReplyDeleteA friend recently sent me the following quote: "The difference between a flower and a weed is a judgement" - very similar to what Celia wrote.
ReplyDeleteSpeedwell is lovely with its tiny blue flowers. A 'free' groundcover with such beauty is not to be sneezed at :)
Like Celia I thoroughly enjoy the wild violets in our lawn each spring.
I have much to catch up on here and will be back soon to do that.
Happy spring, Tabor! It feels like winter here this morning.
Love it....
ReplyDeleteit's a beautiful ground cover, and I hope it isn't too invasive.
ReplyDeleteSpeedwell has taken over my lawn. If only I had known that it would spread like this. I now am considering replacing my entire lawn because I don't think the grass has a chance ever again.
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