"clivedown" wrote in message
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Pam Moore Wrote:
On Wed, 6 Jul 2005 21:58:45 +0000, clivedown
wrote:
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Whilst the violet plant looks pretty enough it's just far too invasive
to take pity on it. It literally takes over the entire garden so it
has to be anihilated somehow. Lawn feed and weed kills it if you put
enough if it down but it also kills the lawn off too!-

How about more frequent closer mowing? The one I had was not so flat
growing that it would have survived that.

Pam in Bristol

Left to its own devices it will grow to a height of 8" or so, yet it
survives even the closest mowing! It just flattens itself against the
grass. Tomorrow I get to the garden centre to buy my Verdone
weedkiller and I will keep you posted on the outcome. Thanks very much
for your interest and advice.



Three neighbouring (front) garden lawns are full of violet coloured blossom
at the moment. One lawn is neglected and hardly ever mown, the other two are
close mown regularly. I would say the density of the plant is, if anything,
greater in the close mown lawns, although the individual plants, of course,
are bigger in the neglected lawn. I don't think this particular weed is a
violet, however, it looks more like campanula glomerata (clustered
bellflower). And those neighbours who use 'weed and feed' don't have any in
their lawns.