Beverly Erlebacher wrote:



Strange irises you've got there.

It's Glechoma hederacea, aka ground ivy, creeping charlie, creeping jenny,
gill over the ground, and lots of other folk names. It's in the mint family.
It's an invasive European weed. It's really hard to control. I sometimes
see a variegated form sold for hanging baskets. I think it favours compacted
heavy soils.

I hope it is as durable as knotweed. I love knotweed for pathways so I don't
get muddy boots. And I rather have this ivy groundcover to mow than to
be mowing brome-grass. I wonder if I can get this groundcover ivy to take
over my brome grass patches.