RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival - 2–7 July 2024.RHS Garden Wisley Flower Show - 5–10 September 2023.RHS Garden Rosemoor Flower Show - 18–20 August 2023.RHS Garden Hyde Hall Flower Show - 2–6 August 2023.Opening the yard to more sunlight, adding soil to create a runoff incline toward the creek, adding sandy soil or thickening yard plantings combined with rockery to reduce standing water would all help.Ĭheck out UK site Creeping Buttercup Management in Organic Garden Systems if you like. Also, an effort to reduce the moisture in the yard would reduce the buttercup's ability to flourish so readily. Geese might work well for you with the creek on your property. However, if you are committed to reducing its presence in your yard chickens and geese readily eat the leaves without harm (the plant raises blisters in the mouths of most other grazers). It is a very successful and attractive plant that is also useful. This is all said to defend the plant's natural existence in wet meadows (or yards). Although it is termed an "invasive species of weed" a medicinal tincture can be made from the creeping buttercup with spirits of wine to cure shingle the leaves, used bruised and infused w/ boiling water in a poultice, ease gout and rheumatism and the juice applied to the nostrils induces sneezing (). I am sure raking with a stiff rake would bring up many but not all surface runners too.Ĭreeping Buttercup (rununculus repens) is plant whose admirable tenacity for survival and dominance is belied by its lovely and merry yellow blooms. That is why I thought you may be able to mow it out. Ajuga grows successfully close to the ground and CB prefers longer leaf stems pushing upwards. One big difference between Ajuga and CB is the stem of the leaves.
I have several that keep popping up in my lawn from a previous owner's plantings. And when you find out, please share it with us. Since the root structure is very similar to the Ajuga plant, you may want to research how that particular plant has been successfully eradicated from lawns.
Gradually work your way down to a shorter height if it is something you want to try.
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I am not sure how to eradicate CB from a lawn without cutting the grass at a short height. This particular infestation took place amongst several gray ferns, false hinoki cypress, wild huckleberry, rhododendron, Japanese maple, all below some tall Douglas fir trees. Every few years I seem to fine one plant in the bed that seems to sprout out of a dormant root though the previous year there were none to be seen. I think year three I only saw a half dozen and promptly removed them.Īfter that they were mostly gone. The next year I had a couple dozen plants pop up weekly and promptly removed them. The first year I took out most of it and kept after the volunteers all summer. I managed to remove the infestation from roughly a 10' X 10' area of this bed. From what I observed, any part of this root left in the soil would re-populate the bed. The roots are somewhat elastic, white and about 1/32" thick. I had to sift through the cultivated soil to ensure I removed all the roots I could locate. I was successful pulling it with the aid of a cultivator and small hoe. It does not have a woody stem but many, many stringy runners.įortunately for me, this was mostly in a planter bed and not my lawn. It has a root system similar to Ajuga (aka: Bugle Weed). It was an infestation of Creeping Buttercup. Adjacent to them grew a similar plant who's leaves were only partially out. Half of the bed was actually strawberries. I knew I had a bed of strawberries coming up. An old nemesis of mine.Įight years ago, this spring, I was watching the plants unfold out of their winter dormancy for my first time. Question 2: What would be an organic method to control this weed? (pH modification? specific mowing practices? introduce some other plant (more desirable - like clover) that can compete with creeping buttercup?)Ĭreeping Buttercup (Ranunculus repens). Question 1: Is there some tool that can make it easier to pull out creeping buttercup? roots and stems seem to stay in the ground. I have tried pulling out the creeping buttercup by hand - but doesn't seem to work well. The lawn appeared to have not been mowed for about 3 months and I recently mowed it down to about 4 inches. The lawn is partly in the shade (green belt with tall trees close by - another reason to avoid herbicides) and since I live in the Pacific Northwest, the ground is damp most of the time. Apart from my general aversion to chemical control, there is a fish bearing creek close by and I don't want stuff leaching into it. I would prefer to do this without using herbicides. I am trying to reduce the amount of creeping buttercup in a lawn.
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