The Lysimachia Punctata or yellow loosestrife is in flower in my herbceous perennial borders and home grown plant pot nursery at the moment. Who else but me would cover their lawns with sheets of black plastic and fill the space with hundreds of homegrown and propagated herbaceous perennials?
It is native to Europe and named after the Macedoniam king of Thrace: Lysimachus.
It doesn't mind damp or shady conditions and I have over twenty of them to take to a car boot sale and try to sell. It can even be planted on the edges of a pond and its attractive to bees and other beneficial insects.
We brought it and many other perennials in a big wheely bin over twenty years ago and I have been making new plants every year since.
It is said to have medicinal benefits like most of our plants and can be used to treat wounds and diarrhoea.
It's definitely one of my old fashioned cottage garden favourite perennials.
It looks lovely when it's in flower. I'm very tempted to get some for my garden.
ReplyDeleteYes it is lovely in flower Jules and being a perennial it comes back every year. I try to sell them for two Euros fifty. They are at least 7 in garden centres. There is also a purple Loosestrife which grows wild here in West Cork.
ReplyDeleteWe have some in our garden too, as well as the purple variety. Very pretty.
ReplyDeleteYes very pretty JayCee. An old cottage garden favourite. I sometimes hear people say to me:at carboot sales "I've got dat one". Or: "I will ask my neighbour for a slip (cutting, piece of a plant). Very easy to propagate in spring and autumn by division.
ReplyDeleteEverything comes back to Greece 😂 I've never heard of this guy thiugh
ReplyDeleteYes Linda the Greeks influenced so much. I have read that even pizza was first made there and not in Italy. I heard of him until I Googled the plant. Do you have them in Poros?
ReplyDeleteIf one happens to have diarrhoea should one stuff lysimachia punctata where the sun don't shine? I am just asking for a friend.
ReplyDeleteMaybe YP. Morrissey stuffed flowers in his back pocket of his jeans on Top Of The Pops and it made The Smiths famous.
ReplyDeleteI do have to say that you have really opened my eyes to wildflowers. We have this here. We also have purple loosestrife, which is known as invasive. I guess I will never quite understand our preoccupation with 'invasives'. Mint is invasive. Garlic mustard is invasive. Plants are plants, and some of them are pretty. Some of them have uses, and there are many plants that spread. Why on earth this bothers people is beyond me.
ReplyDeleteDebby...sorry to but in here. I can no longer visit your blog. It says I need an invitation!
DeleteI thought the yesterday JayCee. Please let us in Debby. I need to see pictures of your new house and garden.
DeleteThanks Debby. We are plagued with Montbretia in our West Cork gardens. I don't think it's a garden invasive. There's too much of it for that. Montbretia originates in Africa. Perhaps it came on the Gullm Stream along with Gunnera which is from Chile and Fuschia which originates in South America. Perhaps the Spanish brought it to Ireland along with tobacco and the potato? Japanese knotweed was introduced to British and Irish gardens for game cover and a ornamental and it's costing millions to control it. Even the Rhododendrons can become invasive and places like County Kerry have had invasive problems with it. Ground Elder is a pernicious weed in garden borders and the Roman's are said to have ate it and introduced to here. The one invasive wild flower I have a lot of time for is the stinging nettle. It's got so many uses and it even improves the soil. "Where nettles grow anything will grow". You got me going on one of my gardening rants there Debby. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteGulf Stream silly autocorrect.
ReplyDeleteDidn't realise you are a Thracian. Thought you were from Lancashire.
ReplyDeleteHave you been supping some of that Tadcaster beer Tasker?
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