Today I have been mostly digging out celandine. I paused for a moment to admire its pretty green stained flower. Then I dug out some more.
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Off The Edge Gardening 
Was it sunny? That bright yellow flower makes me think it was. Here, too! I planted perennials and bulb; and dug grass out of the beds. It’s a treat to go anywhere in the city–magnolias in bloom; forsythia in bloom and blossoming trees everywhere; and blossom showers. Bliss!
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Sounds wonderful Mrs D, I can’t believe how similar our weather was again.
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I too am plagued with this pretty but prolific wild flower/weed/bloody nuisance! I have tried digging it out for years but it comes back in even greater numbers. Thank goodness it disappears by the end of June. I think the best plan is to chop off all the flowers so it can’t set seed. However, it still makes more of those soil coloured rhizomes which are impossible to see! Drat and double drat!
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You have hit the nail on the head about those sneaky rhizomes, I put my specs on especially and still I must miss lots of them.
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SNAP!
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Brazen hussies !
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I like what you did there! But even Brazen Hussey would become a b*****y nuisance!
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I have never grown BH, but I do like the dark leaves with those bright yellow flowers.
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Ha!
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Celandines are invasive but hard to dislike. They look so jolly and lush at this time of year – easy for someone with a celandine-free garden to say!
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Travelling home on the train I saw a steep bank full of them, they looked absolutely brilliant. They should stay there. 🙂
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They are not flowering here yet, just the leaves. So I have no problem digging them out (carefully) and disposing of them.
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I think in some situations it would be easier just to enjoy them, and snap off some of the flowers to keep them in check 😉
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As the day goes on, this is more and more likely …….
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I do wish they did not like my soil so much! I do like them in the hedgerows but agree with all the above comments about them being a nuisance and weed.
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Do you think they are particularly bad in the south west?
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Never saw them in my free-draining sandy loam in Yorkshire and rarely in the wild. I think they must just LOVE the moist clay down here!
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I try to remove as soon as I see them come up as they are particularly difficult to remove from wet, clay soil.
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Sounds like a very horrible job!
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