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Can anyone help identify this purple weed & how to clear it?

bobchalmersbobchalmers Posts: 4
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Hello everyone,

I was hoping to get some help in identifying a purple weed that is cropping up on quite a bit of the lawn and also how best to deal with it. An image of the weed is attached (ps. i've very aware my lawn doesn't have much grass!)

Any help would be greatly apprecaited.

Many thanks
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  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 26,991
    Prunella vulgaris, Self-heal
    The best lawns have this, bees love it. 


    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 82,776
    nutcutlet said:
    ... The best lawns have this, bees love it. 

    Agree  :)
    “I am not lost, for I know where I am. But however, where I am may be lost.” Winnie the Pooh







  • bobchalmersbobchalmers Posts: 4
    Thanks so much for the replies.

    Do you think it best option would be just to leave it? I just found it a little unsightly is all

    Thanks again
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 82,776
    @Nutcutlet once posted a photo of her lawn full of self-heal flowers ... it was spectacularly beautiful ... I wonder if she can find it and post it again?
    “I am not lost, for I know where I am. But however, where I am may be lost.” Winnie the Pooh







  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 26,991
    It's unsightly to lovers of pure grass lawns, but those, with all their chemical treatments, are of little use to wildlife.
    Lovers of wildlife let the grass grow a little and admire the diversity of nature


    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • plant pauperplant pauper Posts: 6,234
    My 'lawn' looks like nutcutlet's. It's also got taller wafty lilac coloured things at the minute and I've cut round them.  Bowling green it is not!
  • Dave HumbyDave Humby Posts: 1,142
    If you don't like them Bob then one of the many selective lawn weedkillers will do the trick such as verdone extra or if you don't have it everywhere then hand spray. Again, plenty of products on the market that will knock back the weeds without killing the grass.
  • bobchalmersbobchalmers Posts: 4
    nutcutlet said:
    It's unsightly to lovers of pure grass lawns, but those, with all their chemical treatments, are of little use to wildlife.
    Lovers of wildlife let the grass grow a little and admire the diversity of nature
    I very much appreciate that as i'm certainly not looking to chemically treat large areas (as i've a 3 year old & 1 year old also so don't particularly like the idea of them rolling around in chemicals all day).

    I've 14 acres which is essentially untouched apart from a bit of mowing - around 3 acres of it - but there is a small bit of around 40 sq metres i'd like to look a bit neater (i.e. more of a grass lawn) if at all possible. I do like the Prunella vulgaris once it grows a bit but when i'm cutting that bit of lawn regularly it just doesn't look as nice in my opinion.
  • bobchalmersbobchalmers Posts: 4
    Dave Humby said:
    If you don't like them Bob then one of the many selective lawn weedkillers will do the trick such as verdone extra or if you don't have it everywhere then hand spray. Again, plenty of products on the market that will knock back the weeds without killing the grass.
    Thank you for that, very much appreciated.
  • JellyfireJellyfire Posts: 1,139
    If youve got 14 acres of untreated and unmown lawn, I think you are doing more than youre bit for wildlife! I think even us wildlife nuts would grant you 40sqm of manicured lawn, you could give it a weed and feed safely, just keep the little ones off it for a day or two and it will be fine for them.

    Having said that judging by the amount of moss and wildflowers you have (if that little section is anything to go by), you might end up with a more of less empty patch of mud for a while if you use a standard product, so if its just the selfheal you want rid of be sure to get a selective herbicide as Dave suggested.
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