Thursday, 20 May 2010

Buttercups Like Poo

Regular readers will remember my excitement over the acquisition of genuine farmyard manure, now spread in smelly quantities across every flowerbed.   Last week I got some more peonies as a birthday gift and thought I'd better weed the beds before planting them.  Well it is clear that buttercups, hitherto present only in my lawn, LOVE manure - the rosebed is infested.  And they are cunning, devilish cunning.  They grow up through the "proper" plants, making it extremely hard to root them out.  Another gardening lesson learnt?
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1 comments:

  1. I wage perpetual war on creeping buttercup here, only exceeded in ferocity by the campaign against bindweed. Bindweed wins. Buttercups usually just about hold their own, but at least from time to time I find myself loving the gold of the flower.

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