The violets are nice, but if they like you they just keep coming. (Sorry Hampshire Hog). Sometimes a mid pink pops up here, I have no idea where it came from, I know you can buy them, but I never bought any. It looks exactly like the wild violet you have there, just pink.
Top one is a violet. I encourage them . some don't. The other one is a dead nettle. Again, keep it if you like it.
That nettle don't look dead to me. Unless it's not a nettle, of course. aka Lamium purpureum.
Thanks for the real name and by doing so explaining the in joke!
I won’t be killing it off, but purple belongs in the front garden this year, so I might move them - six or seven have appeared in the back corner lawn.
They are pretty aren't they. I brought some over from my mum's woodland garden but they do like it here a bit too much and have spread rapidly all over. It's a memory of my mum however so I'll be keeping most of them.
I would ditch the violets. I have them in pots of hostas, the only way to get rid of is to wash the roots to remove all traces of violets. They maybe pretty but are a real pest when they take over.
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I envy you with violets I have tried on many occasions to grow them with no success😞
"You don't stop gardening because you get old, you get old because you stop gardening." - The Hampshire Hog
Sometimes a mid pink pops up here, I have no idea where it came from, I know you can buy them, but I never bought any. It looks exactly like the wild violet you have there, just pink.
I won’t be killing it off, but purple belongs in the front garden this year, so I might move them - six or seven have appeared in the back corner lawn.