Nordzin

By Nordzin

Wildflower patch

Our first patch of wildflower garden is now well established. This is the view of the buttercups taken through the red clover. This may sound contradictory, but I have been pulling out a particular weed today. It has become a pest in the garden spreading everywhere. It does not have a pretty flower or appear to be useful to insects. When small it looks very like a wild strawberry—which I want to encourage—and it can also look a bit like a young buttercup. Now is the perfect time to pull it because at this stage it is taller than the wild strawberries and they are in flower anyway. The tallest have flower buds which are easy to see and it now looks like itself and no other plant. Also the ground is soft because of all the rain, and being shallow-rooted it is easy to pull. I am not finished, but covered a good area today. Several stems grow out from the base. It may be a type of groundsel, but I am not sure.

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