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Lawn Weeds and Preventing Them
Lawn weeds can be welcome in "wild gardens", however in the average domestic household
they are an intrusion in well-kept healthy lawns. Here you will find a list of your
most common visitors. All can be simply dealt with through our seasonal treatments,
without you having to get out the old trowel and rake!
We will be able to advise you if you have anything different.
Creeping Buttercup
A perennial weed, it flowers fairly early on in the year, around April time and has vigorous rooting runners. Very common in It is also called creeping crowfoot and sitfast. Native to Europe, Asia and southwestern Africa, they are commonly found in damp lawns and clay soils.
Prevention: Regular aeration that promotes dry turf surface will help prevent the weed invading.
Mouse-ear Chickweed
This is a prostrate annual with weak stems, which can grow up to 40cm long. It has white flowers, which flower from February to November. It thrives in moist soils that suffer from poor drainage, but tends to survive in the shade and hotter temperatures.
Prevention: Reducing the shade may help prevent this weed and regular aeration to promote a dry turf surface.
Lesser Celandine
A low growing perennial with heart shaped leaves. Flowers between February and May with a single yellow flower which only opens in bright sunshine. Lesser celandine is worse in shade, moist and heavy clay soils.
Prevention: As lesser celandine prefers heavy soil that remains damp or moist, regular aeration and spring treatments all help to control this weed.
White Clover
The bane of many gardeners' lawns, this weed has rooting stems which creep along the soil surface. Flowers are white and appear between May and October.
Prevention: Regular lawn treatments. Keeping the grass full and healthy allows a thick grass coverage, getting rid of empty areas or patches, the space needed for white clover to germinate and spread is unavailable.
Daisy
They can make a beautiful part of a wild-flower garden, or they can be an infringement on your lawn. One of the most common, and popular, lawn weeds, the daisy is a tufted perennial with tightly packed flowers. The flowers appear all through the year, peaking towards the late spring, and have a yellow central disk with white petals.
Prevention: Regular lawn treatments. The most effective way of preventing daisy's becoming problematic is to remove them when they appear.
Dandelion
Like daisies, they can make a beautiful part of a wild-flower garden, or an invasive weed. Easily recognised lawn weed with a single, solitary yellow flower, which sits on a fairly weak, hollow stalk. They tend to flower from March to October.
Prevention: Regular lawn treatments. Dandelions are a stubborn weed that need constant pushing back with weed-killer and lawn care.
Plantain
There are various species of plantain, which are common on bare ground but equally happy on grassland. A rather ugly weed, it is very common to thoroughly root itself in domestic gardens and pathways. This broad leaf weed grows close to the ground and is tolerant to trampling and mowing.
Prevention: As this weed is common on compacted soils, employ a regular aeration program to relieve soil compaction.
Slender Speedwell
Very common in amenity grassland and turf, with creeping stems and small lilac flowers, with a white centre. Flowers from April to June. Speedwells’ blue flowers may look attractive, but they are creeping perennial weeds that can spread significantly, smothering other plants and taking over the garden.
Prevention: Regular lawn treatments. Mow regularly to prevent flower and seed heads forming.
Lesser Trefoil
Low growing but can reach lengths of up to 50cm. With three small, oval leaves and a tiny yellow flower, which appears between May and August.
Prevention: Regular mowing will help prevent and remove the seed heads.
Yarrow
A perennial broad-leaf weed that is very common in all types of turf. It thrives in most conditions, but is particularity happy in nutrient deficient, dry soils. It is very tolerant of drought conditions and when the turf has turned brown, yarrow often remains a healthy green colour. Yarrow can grow up to 80cm tall with roots that can grow 20cm long.
Prevention: Regular mowing will help prevent and remove the seed heads. A healthy lawn with a thick sward stops yarrow from finding space to invade.
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