In message , Steve
Wolstenholme writes
On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 05:54:12 -0800 (PST), Phil
wrote:

Hi,

I found a strange plane growing in my garden, not sure if it's a weed
or not so left it for the moment.
Can anyone tell me what it is?


It's an invasive cranesbill. There has been some in my back garden for
years. My mother brought it but I don't know where she found it. Frost
is supposed to kill it but mine comes up every year in forever larger
bunches. It has overwhelmed some of the more attractive common blue
cransbill. People who like it take clumps of it away but it always
dies. There must be something it finds addictive in my garden.

Steve

Try giving them seed, rather than clumps.
--
Stewart Robert Hinsley