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I wonder if anyone can ID this plant growing in our lawn, and how we can get rid of it pls?

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"SueBee38" wrote in message
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I wonder if anyone can ID this plant growing in our lawn, and how we can
get rid of it pls?


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Daisy?
Selective weedkiller.
R.

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get rid of it pls?


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Daisy?
Selective weedkiller.

Looking at that lawn I think there are more problems than the daisies.
Suggest you use a "Weed and Feed" for autumn use, you may just have time,
wait a few week than scarify the lawn getting all the dead stuff out (it
will look worse after) then get some air into it by going over digging a
fork down to make holes. Then come spring feed it, again with a weed and
feed, seaweed extract or just growmore, or all three.
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On Tue, 2 Oct 2012 16:03:52 +0000, SueBee38
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I wonder if anyone can ID this plant growing in our lawn, and how we can
get rid of it pls?


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Daisies.
Don't get rid of them if you have kids though as there's a lot of fun
to be had sitting on the lawn in summer and making a daisy chain.

They grub out quite easily and then you'll need to put some grass seed
in but I'd leave it til next year now.
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Thanks but the leaves are completely different to daisies, these are sort of dark green and fleshy!

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"SueBee38" wrote


Thanks but the leaves are completely different to daisies, these are
sort of dark green and fleshy!



That is correct the Common Daisy has green fleshy leaves, see....

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...s_dsc00906.jpg

and look up Bellis perennis for more photos.
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In that case, you'll need to provide more of a close-up photograph, perhaps of underside as well. There is nothing in either of those photographs to suggest anything other than daisies.

Thanks Bob, thought it was a bit late in the year for daisies!

If they are daisies, maybe we'll just leave them over winter as was suggested earlier. I don't like using chemicals on the garden as we have a cat.

Daisy plants are perennial, so the leaves are there all the year round.

Daisy a problem? I'd be happy if daisies in my lawn were the worst thing. Couch grass and yarrow and lesser trefoil and bindweed and ragwort and selfheal, these are problems.

Wish I had yarrow and self heal. And some birdsfoot trefoil while we're at it.

All I have is daisy and white clover. Though probably after the last 6 "summers" introducing marsh lousewort would be a success. (I already have a swamp cypress)

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get rid of it pls?





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SueBee38

This looks like a frequently scalped lawn. Try raising the cut of the mower, cut more frequently and enjoy the 'species rich' sward. You will probably see a better range of wild flowers under the new regime.
The soil is already impoverished so wild flowers will be able to compete better with the grass than in a 'properly' managed lawn.

Rod

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On Thursday, 4 October 2012 18:42:15 UTC+1, Rod wrote:
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This looks like a frequently scalped lawn. Try raising the cut of the mower, cut more frequently and enjoy the 'species rich' sward. You will probably see a better range of wild flowers under the new regime.

The soil is already impoverished so wild flowers will be able to compete better with the grass than in a 'properly' managed lawn.



Rod

Oops, Sorry I should have pointed out that atm about all that can survive under the present management is the daisies.
Rod