Variegated snow-on-the-mountain, also known as bishop’s weed. A friend has a good crop growing as a ground cover in her back yard.
Happy Saturday. 🙂
Snow-on-the-Mountain
Variegated snow-on-the-mountain, also known as bishop’s weed. A friend has a good crop growing as a ground cover in her back yard.
Happy Saturday. 🙂
I had that too and couldn’t get rid of it. You have to make sure you want it and then it looks great covering an area, but if you don’t …. Look out!
It’s a lot more controlled in drier areas, I think. But I agree, it has to be something you want and in a specific area. My friend has it in a spot where it’s difficult to grow anything else.
I had a couple of plants that came accidentally with a plant that a friend gave me. Many years later, I’m still fighting to get rid of it. But I agree, that if you have the right spot, it makes a pretty ground cover.
It came into your yard as a hitchhiker! Sometimes that’s a good thing, sometimes not. In your case, not.
That’s it exactly – a hitchhiker.
So that’s what this stuff is called. We have some of this in our backyard. It looks pretty, but we have to keep scaling it back as it can quickly get out of control when left on its own!
It’s great in places where it’s hard to grow anything, and especially as a ground cover. It does look pretty, but yes, it can get away from you!
I like that, Lynnette! I’ve always liked the two-toned plants.
Thank you. 🙂 These are very pretty and make a great ground cover, but they can really spread in the right conditions.
We had the worst groundcover under a dogwood and we dug it out but the roots are everywhere and it’s a continuous battle. I do think groundcover can be aggressive, but that one is pretty!
I think it is, too. This is quite a dry area, so it’s naturally more controlled here. It’s more of a problem in wetter parts.
In damp (especially this year!) New England, it has crowded out my daylilies. If anyone has suggestions on how to get rid of it without killing the lilies, I’d love to know!
You could ask Anneli as she indicates above that she also has an issue with it.
https://wordsfromanneli.com/
It needs a bit of babying here as it’s so dry.
oh good grief, I planted some in my Calgary back yard as ground cover, and I remember a friend visiting who brought along with him his dad, a farmer — the dad stared at me, deadpan, and said, very slowly, “Bishop’s weed. You bought Bishop’s weed. You spent money and bought Bishop’s weed. And you planted it. You planted it. Deliberately.” In his world, you go crazy trying to rip it out.
Hahaha. 😀 Context and perception can certainly nail our feet to the ground! I really like it (anyway), and in a dry area, it’s quite contained.
see? context determines so much…
That it does!