[Growster...]

Last year, we dug over a piece of ground which hadn't been touched since we moved here in 1989.

I spent some time re-organising a water butt, and fiddled around with a new 'Clematis' and a few small plants, but we also got a fantastic show of some of the most beautiful poppies we've ever seen! We saved the seed, and now have two-hundred to plant out everywhere... (I can't find the pics yet, they're here somewhere...)!

This year, the same bit of ground (only a few square ft), has thrown upwards a gorgeous 'Evening Primrose', which is such a lovely plant to have, what with the height and the fragrance, and the brilliant yellow blooms!

But; there is a downside to all this sort of activity...

We had to take out our trusted apple trees last year, as they'd stopped producing, and had 'the hump'! I dug over the area (having left the stump/root to rot down - fingers crossed no fungus - and we planted the sweet peas around the stump.

Blimey! We now have a 'Thorn Apple', which is pretty nasty if the fruit matures! It looks quite nice where it is, but won't stay like that for long, I can assure you...

:0~

[mumofstig]

Yes, the flowers and leaves look nice, we had them one year all over the plots - 'til we found out what they were  Luckily we haven't seen any since.
Good luck with getting rid of it before it seeds itself everywhere.

[Growster...]

Thanks Mum, I should have hooked it out yesterday, hadn't thought about seeding, so the deed will be done a.s.a.p!

The poppy was a 'Persian Blue', and I can't get that image done either - odd chaps these plants...!