I'm fairly new to gardening and after clearing my borders last year, they are now full of this plant. It's quite pretty but if it's a weed I need to get rid. Thanks in advance.

On May 3, 9:35*pm, birdsareace
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I'm fairly new to gardening and after clearing my borders last year,
they are now full of this plant. It's quite pretty but if it's a weed I
need to get rid. Thanks in advance.

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birdsareace

No it's not a "weed"/native plant as such.
It's related to geraniums and used as a ground cover plant (to
supressother plants). Very invasive.
But if you don't want it, by definitionit is a weed.

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I'm fairly new to gardening and after clearing my borders last year,
they are now full of this plant. It's quite pretty but if it's a weed I
need to get rid. Thanks in advance.


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It is Shining Cranesbill (Geranium lucidum).
Very uncommon where I live - what area do you live in?
R.

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On May 3, 9:35*pm, birdsareace
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I'm fairly new to gardening and after clearing my borders last year,
they are now full of this plant. It's quite pretty but if it's a weed I
need to get rid. Thanks in advance.

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birdsareace

No it's not a "weed"/native plant as such.

It being Geranium lucidum (shining cranesbill).

It's related to geraniums and used as a ground cover plant (to
supressother plants). Very invasive.
But if you don't want it, by definitionit is a weed.

Stace says "Native; bare ground, rocks, walls and stony banks, mostly on
calcareous ground; locally common in most of BI, also garden escape in S
En." ( don't think I've ever seen grown as a garden plant.)

It's commonest along a belt from Cumbria though the Welsh Marches (and
Staffordshire) to south Devon. It's a plant which is increasing its
range.
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On 05/04/2012 10:19 AM, Stewart Robert Hinsley wrote:
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It being Geranium lucidum (shining cranesbill).

It's related to geraniums and used as a ground cover plant (to
supressother plants). Very invasive.
But if you don't want it, by definitionit is a weed.

Stace says "Native; bare ground, rocks, walls and stony banks, mostly on
calcareous ground; locally common in most of BI, also garden escape in S
En." ( don't think I've ever seen grown as a garden plant.)

It's commonest along a belt from Cumbria though the Welsh Marches (and
Staffordshire) to south Devon. It's a plant which is increasing its range.

Thanks for the informative post. We also see it in Lower Normandy, it's
taken over a little corner of lawn. Very attractive, so I just let it
do its thing.

Thank you. I'm very grateful for all the responses. I think I'll have to get rid of it unfortunately. It is quite pretty though.

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need to get rid. Thanks in advance.

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It is Shining Cranesbill (Geranium lucidum).
Very uncommon where I live - what area do you live in?
R.

Bloody stuff is every where in Herefordshire.

I have masses of it on my neutral to acid clay in Yorkshire.