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Gardening

spinbaby

(15,264 posts) Mon Apr 8, 2019, 04:55 PM Apr 2019

Sigh, another invasive plant [View all]

We bought our house in 2016. For the next two years I noticed a lovely patch of bright blue flowers along the hedge. Suddenly this spring , I’ve got tiny blue flowers in everything—in the lawn, in the day lilies—everywhere. I’ve identified them as Siberian squill and it turns out they’re an invasive species, one of many the previous homeowner planted. I wish people would google “invasive species” before they planted.

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Sigh, another invasive plant [View all] spinbaby Apr 2019 OP

Squills are gorgeous en masse cyclonefence Apr 2019 #1

I agree. we can do it Apr 2019 #2

I have those. The White are opening and the Blue will, soon Siwsan Apr 2019 #3

Are they the same thing as Spanish bluebells? japple Apr 2019 #4

They do spread, but the good thing is that they're ephemerals The Velveteen Ocelot Apr 2019 #5

They're at least attractive spinbaby Apr 2019 #6