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Gardening

Curmudgeoness

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5. Odd thing, the field behind me has Blue-eyed Grass out the kazoo,

Reply to NCarolinawoman (Reply #3)

Sun Jun 10, 2012, 09:06 PM

Jun 2012

and I have tried to transplant some of it in my yard. It just will not take in my flower beds, or my yard, or the border between the two properties. Go figure.

Butter and eggs certainly does take over in the flower beds though. But it at least is a pretty flower and the plant is not huge. Not like that sweet pea!!! It creeps on everything.

My childhood favorites were Buttercups, and I did get some of them to grow for me, but they are not invasive.

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And then there were twelve... [View all] beac Jun 2012 OP

wild sweet pea Viva_La_Revolution Jun 2012 #1

Yes, some are perennial...pests. Curmudgeoness Jun 2012 #2

"Butter and eggs"....... NCarolinawoman Jun 2012 #3

Odd thing, the field behind me has Blue-eyed Grass out the kazoo, Curmudgeoness Jun 2012 #5

I had to look up "butter and eggs". We always called them snap dragons. shraby Jun 2012 #6

Oh how I wish! Alas, I planted a mix of annual sweet peas and, though they beac Jun 2012 #4

ahh, Devil's shoestring or rabbit pea Viva_La_Revolution Jun 2012 #7

Yes, I was pretty sure it could be a menace based on beac Jun 2012 #8