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Another id please. Was given this and it needs planting, and obviously an id would let me put it in the right place. The stems are a bit leggy - so can I chop them of and let the plant bush out a wee bit. Thanks



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Bladder campion - I sprinkled seeds of this around two years ago and it came up all over. This year it's been rampaging everywhere. It's very pretty and I don't want to get rid of all of it, but I'm deadheading all the time - and it's very fast from flower to ripe seed pod.

The plant itself spreads and sprawls widely, so you may need to keep cutting it back to keep it within bounds, and then there are the seedlings.....

Good luck! ;-)

29 Jun, 2011

 

This grows wild all over the sea cliffs where I live. But I had one in a Staffordshire garden some years ago and it didn't seed or spread at all. I was interested that the flowers seem to be semi double - never seen them like that before, so perhaps its a garden variety - nice! I think whether you cut it back or not depends on how much space you have and how tidy you want to be, but I would wait until it has finished flowering.

29 Jun, 2011

 

Sea Campion I love it in my rockery

29 Jun, 2011

 

I have this and it is named as Silene maritima, sea campion. A good doer. nice plant.

29 Jun, 2011

 

Seed weed of the first order. I spend as much time removing this as any weed.

29 Jun, 2011

 

I dont find this Owdboggy.

29 Jun, 2011

 

If you live at the coast perhaps?

Nice plant. Silene maritima (Sea Campion).

29 Jun, 2011

 

Now this is an interesting plant.

We were thinking of another project for our community garden to plant out a saltire cross the Scottish Flag .

With blue and white plants.

First we do need to clean this bed of weeds.

Anyone got any ideas of type of plants we could use.

30 Jun, 2011

 

If you want low cover then do consider Phlox subulata 'emerald blue'

30 Jun, 2011

 

We are about as far from the sea as you can get. And I have just filled a brown council compost bin with seedlings of this plant and there is at least twice as much still in the garden!

30 Jun, 2011

 

I grow mine in poor soil and we are 12 miles from the sea, but so far its stayed quite contained!

30 Jun, 2011

 

My niece done the saltire 'in plants' for a school project and we used lobelia. I know that this wont suit your community garden Kath but whatever you choose would need to be low growing with very dense flowers to get the effect. Her display won her a 2nd place!
Thanks everyone for the inPut re this plant. I will give it a try under the hedge in the front garden first beside my red campion as that doesn't spread around in my garden either. Cheers x

30 Jun, 2011

 

You should cut all the flower heads off as soon as the flowers have died, Scottish, then there won't be any seeds to spread around! It's a lovely plant, and I think the reason it has double petals is because it's the cultivated version of this wild flower. We have it all over the coast near us in Cumbria, but of course it stays in a dwarf form because it's growing in very poor soil or sand. Annie

30 Jun, 2011

 

The soil under my hedge isn't great and very dry, so maybe the best place for it!!
Thanks Anne

1 Jul, 2011

 

It does like full sun though.
Scottish, red campion grows everywhere in my garden if i don't hoik it out. (and on every bankside and hedgerow as well) Isn't it interesting how some plants go mad in some places and not in others?

1 Jul, 2011

 

My red campion stays where I have planted it Steragram, I'm a bit over keen when it comes to deadheading, although in some cases that isn't a bad thing!!!!!!
Thanks for the tip re the flower heads Anne, as you will see from my comment above, that won't be a problem :))

2 Jul, 2011

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