A Gardeners Forum Forums Gardening Reference Gardening in 2007 Hyacinth family?

Patty,
I am not new to gardening, but I knowwwwwww
my plants would love to do that to me...

patty, the second purple flower you have is, wood hyacinth, IS a weed and an aggressive one at that. Worse than the grape hyacinth. It's very hard to get rid of.

Earthnut, I've discovered that some of my favorite plants are "weeds"! I think I'll add this one to that list!

Now I need to come up with a new term for "weeding"!

Weezie, remember these "tree looking" plants that we talked about on page one here?


Well, I still don't know what they are, but now I know how they got there! I had forgotten that I'd found them in the field last year & dug one up & transplanted it in a flower bed in the yard, because I thought the little delicate blue flowers were pretty! When the flowers turned into little pods, I smooshed them up between my fingers & broadcast the seeds all over, in the flower bed.

They're actually pretty spindly looking plants, & each "branch" puts out only one little blossom. They are indeed, delicate... not good for flower arrangements, as the petals fall of very easily.



I think that if there were enough of them, it'd look pretty nice. (Yes, I know they're weeds & I suppose a lot of people hate them, but I think that if they're controlled, they'd be just fine.) I'm going to have to watch them closely when the flowers turn into seed pods, making sure that they stay IN the flower bed & NOT on my new lawn!

Happy gardening!

Patty, Those are very pretty. Nice blue weed you have there!

Who decided a weed was a weed anyway?

Who looked at a dandelion one day and said, they aren't important flowers, they're just weeds?

Good point Loz. I bet the person that decided that one had a beautiful green lawn that was being infested by them!

Patty - those little blue flowers are blue flax.
I got some seeds for them last winter, but they aren't doing much so far this spring.

Here's a google link to images:

blue flax

Lynne, I wonder if the Blue Flax seeds that you bought spread out like these plants do. (I assume they're "normal" Blue Flax & not the wild type like I drug up from my field here!) I sorta wish that just one of these plants (the wild ones) wasn't so far-reaching & spindly... it'd take LOTS & LOTS of them to make a bed look really nice, but I think they'd actually look fine in a bed of other wild flowers.

Gotta really watch those when they go to seed though! I can see how they could be a big problem, especially in lawned areas, cuz last year I had only ONE of those plants, & I deliberately picked off the seed pods & spread them around in that bed... trust me, there are LOTS of them there this year!

I know it's been almost 2 weeks since you posted above... sorry about that. I finally got my links all rounded up & organized, & am finding all the old threads I thought I'd lost track of! Gosh, I sure jumped around a lot with this topic... I started out asking about the Grape Hyacinth & foolishly included the Wild blue flax in the same post!
I hate when I do that!

Grape Muscari