Please help me identify

[Carri]

 

[Hattie the Hen]

Hi there Carri !

It look like a Campanula to me! Sometimes called a Harebell here in the UK.

http://images.google.co.uk/images?q...=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=708125633

There are lots of different varieties but your one grows wild here.

Hope this helps! :happy_flower


:rose Hattie :rose

 

[Reinbeau]

Carri, Hattie is right - and if it's the one I think it is, Campanula rapunculoides, it's awfully invasive. It's been referred to as 'cancer of the garden', and for my mother, that is so true, she battles with it constantly. It's got this huge carrot that's deep in the ground that sends up shoots all over. You pull the plant, but unless you get that carrot, they come right back - forever.

 

[Carri]

That's what my mom says! She hates it but I think it's beautiful. I asked her for some of it and she said, "Oh, you don't want this. I have to weed kill it!" Noooooooooooo!!!

 

[Natalie]

I was wondering about those too! I inherited a huge patch of them when we moved in. I like them, but I think I will try to thin them out.

 

[Reinbeau]

That's what my mom says! She hates it but I think it's beautiful. I asked her for some of it and she said, "Oh, you don't want this. I have to weed kill it!" Noooooooooooo!!!

Carri, listen to your mother. Seriously. This thing is a serious pest. Yes, it is lovely, but avoid it, trust me!

I was wondering about those too! I inherited a huge patch of them when we moved in. I like them, but I think I will try to thin them out.

You'll have to dig down deep and get out that carrot. If you don't, they come right back - over and over and over again.

 

[Natalie]

It's in a contained area, but I wanted to add some butterfly-attracting flowers there. I should be able to dig a giant hole to remove a good portion of them. I imagine they've been there since the original owner of the house, up to 30 years.

 

[Greensage45]

So does this lovely plant produce seed? I would love to send a stamp for some.

Here in the desert nothing is ever really invasive; once the person stops watering the desert returns. We actually adore other folks weeds.

Take care, Ron

 

[Carri]

Ann, what if I stuck it in a container? I'm not going to let this go, am I?

 

[Greenthumb18]

Oooooooooh my this is the exact plant i have in my garden , i had no idea what it was, it kinda looks like a foxglove far away.