"pammyT" fenlandfowl @talktalk.net wrote in message
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"BAC" wrote in message
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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.


All we need are a couple of gardening programmes to extoll the virtues of
the latest thing in lawns being purple flowers and people will be
desperately trying to get these flowers to grow :0)



Well, it worked with decking :-)

As I've said previously, the purple flower filled lawns are good looking,
IMO. But it's a matter of personal choice whether or not a gardener wants
them. If someone has a dense growth of unwanted sweet violets, for instance,
the way they can spread can drive some people crazy. The chap next door but
one to me has been conducting warfare against a particularly hardy colony
for years, and he hasn't managed a 100% eradication yet. Only this morning,
he was telling me he held me responsible, because he was sure they had
originally been imported along with some fruit bushes I had given him ...