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How to treat these weeds in the flower bed?
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If this is your first full year(from Jan) with a garden then it is a learning experience.
Unless you want to do something specific with an area one strategy is just tidy a bit see what comes up
You are seeing the spring bulbs, worth keeping and once over you can tidy up around them
(they grow and then die back to the underground bulb)
There may well be others yet to appear through the summer and you can start to plan. keep move etc.
could well be other types of plans that die back each winter.
looks like you have an edge to separate the border from what looks like grass,
That may be a good place to start, remove the grass growing on te border side to re-establish a visible division between areas
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mazibee said:Sorry for any confusion as I was reviously living in a property without any gardenWe are not originally from UK, so its also very strange for me that I have heard a lot about the Daffodils but never seen them and at last now have seen DaffodilsStrangely we have not planted any , also last year they were not in the flower bed and this part of the year they are, so i thought they are the weeds.As mentioned when during the walk I saw these yellow colored flowers on the sides of the vacant properties , I thought that they are the weeds with the Yellow flower,If they are not harmful, and are not harming me I will leave them as it is.Regarding ROSATE 360, I asked opinion to use it or not? As suggested and also as I am not a professional I will not use it, due to disadvantages are more as compared to the advantages.Thanks for all the help.1
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FOR GOODNESS SAKE PEOPLE - THIS IS A WIND UP!!!!!
I know we've all been in lockdown for what seems forever but really - its a joke and from people's response quite a good one. Well done OP1 -
gwynlas said:I cannot believe that you do not recognize daffodils if you have lived in the UK for more than 12 months. Most people welcome them as one of the first spring flowering bulbs. I do not know what you expect to grow in a flower bed except flowers, If you seriously wish to get rid of them then dig the whole bulbs up and place in front of your house with a sign saying FREE.To be fair to the OP (assuming it isn’t a wind up), I’m not sure whether I would recognise native flowering plants within 12 months of moving to a foreign country! I expect most people wouldn’t.
A weed is a plant that is growing where you don’t want it to, so if the OP doesn’t want them there, they are weeds by definition.Last year I removed a raised bed from my front garden with some overgrown bushes in. Levelled it off and planted grass seed - lovely low maintenance lawn. This year, daffodils have started growing through the lawn. I hadn’t noticed them in the bed previously and have obviously missed the bulbs when preparing for the lawn. I like daffodils, but in that scenario, you could definitely consider them a weed.The correct answer is- They are daffodils. Most people wouldn’t consider them a weed. If you don’t want them in your bed, dig them out by the bulb.0 -
Alfrescodave said:FOR GOODNESS SAKE PEOPLE - THIS IS A WIND UP!!!!!
I know we've all been in lockdown for what seems forever but really - its a joke and from people's response quite a good one. Well done OP0 -
Thanks everyone for the valuable suggestions once again.
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It's March and there have been pictures of daffodils on television, in the press etc to celebrate the arrival of Spring, if not St David's Day.I really don't think anyone could mistake daffodils for weeds, even if they hadn't seen any pictures of them.Member #14 of SKI-ers club
Words, words, they're all we have to go by!.
(Pity they are mangled by this autocorrect!)1 -
pollypenny said:It's March and there have been pictures of daffodils on television, in the press etc to celebrate the arrival of Spring, if not St David's Day.I really don't think anyone could mistake daffodils for weeds, even if they hadn't seen any pictures of them.Not everybody sits gawping into the tv all day. I can’t remember the last time I watched television. Don’t read the press. I know what a daffodil is, but it’s not unreasonable to think that somebody not native to this country wouldn’t.I’d put money on the fact that a lot of British teenagers wouldn’t have any idea what they are either.0
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Swasterix said:dpollypenny said:It's March and there have been pictures of daffodils on television, in the press etc to celebrate the arrival of Spring, if not St David's Day.I really don't think anyone could mistake daffodils for weeds, even if they hadn't seen any pictures of them.Not everybody sits gawping into the tv all day. I can’t remember the last time I watched television. Don’t read the press. I know what a daffodil is, but it’s not unreasonable to think that somebody not native to this country wouldn’t.I’d put money on the fact that a lot of British teenagers wouldn’t have any idea what they are either.The daffodil is a very common British flower. Convince yourself otherwise if it makes you happy.Member #14 of SKI-ers club
Words, words, they're all we have to go by!.
(Pity they are mangled by this autocorrect!)1 -
pollypenny said:Swasterix said:dpollypenny said:It's March and there have been pictures of daffodils on television, in the press etc to celebrate the arrival of Spring, if not St David's Day.I really don't think anyone could mistake daffodils for weeds, even if they hadn't seen any pictures of them.Not everybody sits gawping into the tv all day. I can’t remember the last time I watched television. Don’t read the press. I know what a daffodil is, but it’s not unreasonable to think that somebody not native to this country wouldn’t.I’d put money on the fact that a lot of British teenagers wouldn’t have any idea what they are either.The daffodil is a very common British flower. Convince yourself otherwise if it makes you happy.Point. Missed.Yes, I’m aware the daffodil is a common British flower. Key word highlighted to make it easier for you.1
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