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and spray again if needed. Check again in spring. It can take 3 or 4 seasons to eradicate using glyphosate. Avoid spraying on a windy day and near other desirable plants. all over the gardenearly spring to autumnMore advice on removing weedsField bindweedValerian

in the garden for years. The fron garden is overgrown with bulbs, helebores, valerian and heuchera, but it looks goood in a wild way, the back garden is my biggest problem.  I want to get it looking nice but am finding it such hard work.  Though a young man

-rich plants including achillea, astrantia, erigeron and verbascums.And, thanks to the warm, dry spring, the usual stalwarts of Chelsea - alliums and irises to name two - were few and far between. Instead, lavender, salvias, red valerian and geums took centre

's gardens.  It occupies a similar environment as the valerian which grows wild everywhere. It has grey-green foliage and a profusion of small white flowers which have come out in the last week or two.  Some of the clumps have grown really quite large

(and therefore the species that rely on them) is to provide them with breeding habitats. Unlike butterflies, which have quite specific breeding requirements, moths seem less fussy. I've found caterpillars on my foxgloves, primroses and valerian, and I

I am very disappointed with the show gardens that have been on television. Valerian and Cow Parsley is not something I wish to see at Chelsea nor Red Campion. It belongs in the lanes of Devon. I am desperately trying to get rid of valerian and take

desperate to get mor beutterflies in the garden so I'll try anything! WIll go for the angelica sage and maybe the valerian this year Winter savory is good for bees.  Mine are covered in them when it's in flower, which is most of the summer.  I use the herb

it with a wire hanging basket. i think we have an old wire supermarket basket which will also do the trick... my cats just go loopy when they have had a goog roll around in it. My 12 year old cat discoverd valerian root the other day, after OH bought some

of nectar and pollen for bees, butterflies and hoverflies.ValerianIf left to flower, fennel produces attractive yellow blooms that attract hoverflies. Seeds are eaten by birds in autumn and winter.FennelThe wild strawberry, Fragaria vesca, produces white

, but it is all part of the garden picture. I know the feeling. We have lots of valerian growing in our garden walls and it is such an attractive plant we can't bear to pull it out. Beware valerian in walls - the roots get very large and can wreak havoc. I've got