Double Creeping Buttercup 'Pleniflorus' (Ranunculus repens)

Hello everyone, I'm so happy to see we have our own regional forum here at DG! I have been weeding (alot) and getting the garden tidied up. I wish it would warm up already!

So, I want to know how many others here are "blessed" with these buttercups. Here is what they look like: http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/57000/index.html I have these ALL over the garden. I remember a few last year, but I yanked them out here and there, because in my mind they were weeds. You know, a weed is anything thats growing where you don't want it to! LOL.

So how do you combat these? Or do you like them?

Mine aren't that pretty: same foiliage, more single yellow bloom. They are menaces not only in the garden, but in the lawn, cracks and crevices of garden borders. I think a pile of dust could harbor one or two: they grow that easily and are nearly impossible to eradicate for me.

Roundup would probably get them, I am not afraid to use roundup; it is really quite safe.

I went over to Wooden Shoe Tulip farm one day and they sell a few perenniels and I could n't believe they were selling that little red leafed oxalis with a yellow flower as a perenniel. I thought they gotta be nuts. That is just about as bad as your buttercup, Sue.

Sorry to hear you have them too Poochella, and I've found out that these are everywhere. Our invasion is pretty bad, and I'm no longer afraid to use Round Up. There was a time when I would not even say the words Round Up. LOL, but I've learned the hard way. It's very useful in certain areas of the garden for sure. Well, get this, Forest Farm sells them, called Buttered Popcorn, I think. Mine are like yours Poochella, a single flowered one.

I'm off to google Red Leafed Oxalis, I'm curious about that since you mentioned it Lenjo.

Oh lucky me! I have plenty of the red leafed oxalis every year too. Going to have myself a plant sale, I am! "Cheap perennials! Bright, Cheery colors!" Would that draw a crowd?

You know how you cringe at a nursery when the person in front of you is actually paying money for something you know is completely obnoxious? I feel that way when I see Sweet woodruff on the checkout counter. I wish someone would have spoken up when I bought THREE containers of a particularly aggressive monarda. The checker just bit her lip....and took my VISA card. LOL! Three years later, I'd be tempted to add that monarda to the "bright, cheery" plant sale, or the burn pile; the latter being more humane.

LOL - I think I've seen the green variety of the Oxalis around here also. Does your Monarda reseed itself or just will not die?

Today I also battled mint. I really really wish I would have taken the advice given to me three years ago to NEVER let it into the garden. I was told repeatedly - you will be sorry if you don't grow this in a container!

Lambs ear is another I guess. I do love it tho, and like how they pop up here and there, but it can be a chore to keep the flowers cut off during the full summer frenzy!

Hi Sue,
It has been my experience with these nasty little weeds that if you pull them, they spread. I usually dig under them with the shovel and then shake the dirt off, making sure to keep the roots intact.

The lady who lived here before we did (we lived next door at the time) told me one day, "I have the prettiest little yellow flowers growing all over my yard". YIKES Since we moved in, I've been battling this for 10 years. Everytime I think I've beat the beast more pops up!

Good luck!
Zazzy

Zazzy - 10 years! Well, I'm going to have to look at the bright side, all of this bending and up and down is good exercise. :-D

zazzy, I guess I'm like your neighbor! I have buttercups in the back yard lawn and just love them. I'm trying to reduce my lawns as much as possible. I can't mow myself and paying to have it done gets expensive. I've noticed where the buttercups have spread doesn't need mowing! Go buttercups!!! - ;~ )

We have them also, pretty at the beginning but then I get tired of them real quick!

Does roundup work on blackberry vines?

Gwendalou

It doesn't kill em , Gwen, but will make this sick and slow them up.

Dark oxalis sounds really great to me as I just love them all it seems, as well as the nice soft silvery lamb's ear. Does the oxalis spread by seed or runners? Maybe I'll go put my green in a pot??? :)

Buttercup is a nuisance, along with shotweed and a couple others. I've found Finale to be very effective and seems to do the job on most everything.

Pixy, last year my local nursery was selling oxalis for $7.99/pot...just think of the money you could make! Hehe.

I've got some single buttercups that I keep pulling out, but my major fight is with horsetail. The house development we bought into used to be field/wetland in the Puyallup Valley. That darn horsetail keeps coming up everywhere in my veggie garden. Every year I spray Roundup in the late fall and again winter/early spring, get out and pluck 'em one-by-one weekend after weekend spring through summer. And every year it feels like a losing battle. I heard Ciscoe chuckle and wish them luck and perseverence when someone phoned into his show asking about getting rid of horsetail. What's weird is that it doesn't grow in the backyard grass (knock on wood), though it's all over the veggie garden and over the back fence in the wild wetland area.

I had them at my other house. They love water and would grow right into my pond. We just kept digging them output but could never get rid of them completely. When we decide to rent out our former home we removed the pond for safety reasons. Under the pond was a huge mass of these WEEDS! We sprayed with Roundup and then dug them out. I hope when I got to trim shrubs in the next few weeks they are not back. I can’t believe they sell this has a water plant when it grows so prolific.

LOL! this is so funny for me. I remember at the farm I had the buttercups everywhere and the big old blackberries. In fact we named the place Blackberrie patch Appoolussa's. some how in my digging and bringing some of my favorite plants over I managed to get some of each.OMG! Well to my pleasent supprise they don't run-a-muck so bad over here. I guess cuz they only get water in the spring like NOW and when I water them. I have to prune the big old blackberry lots and pull a few cups but it's not like over there. I agree with Zazzy everytime I pull them they go thanks now I can grow some more. I have a lot of bank to cover yet around the pond and I'm thinking that might be the perfect spot.
Debbie

Hello everyone. I see some are talking about Oxalis. There is a type of Oxalis that behaves in the garden. I think the common name is Oregon Wood Sorrell. I've had it about three years. It grows from tiny bulbs and stays in a tidy clump. The flowers are a pretty pink.

To get rid of blackberry vines I think the product I think it is called, Blackberry Vine Killer. , would work the best. I used it to kill off the suckers that came up everywhere after the poplar row of trees I planted was cut down and shredded. After three years I think my ground is finally free of the root suckers.

As for the ranuculus buttercup weed, I am just about rid of it by using RoundUP. It is a very persistant weed in damp areas.

I was told by county extension agent that Casoran is about the only thing that will kill the horsetail equistem pest, and of course that can't be used anywhere near any plants you want to save. I was told that just constantly digging it out is about the only way to get rid of it in a garden area. I had some here and by constantly digging it out I think my garden is free of it now.

Happyoutside, I would be very careful letting even a small piece of the ranuculus get started near your pool. That is where mine was growing, well actually at the edge of my little bog garden. I expect that some piece of it will show up this spring. When I came back from Loomis Sunday I tried to figure out which house is yours but not sure. We will have to get together soon.

DonnaS

Donna I never thought about the extra moisture for them .Ok I had a bad idea. If you know where Duke and Darlene Rinehard (the junk man) lived, I'm up behind them and just to the south. Loomis I just love it up there. Maybe tomorrow dh and I can take a drive, camara in hand. Love to spot the Loomis sheep. I'm finalley feeling better from this terriable flu. I have been off work 6 days now. Poor way to get time off. I guess several of our residents are also still sick with it. Do you know Dale and Darlene Smith? I'm on the same side as them and one driveway north of them. Yes I would love to get together with you.
Debbie

Damp area; Willapa Bay - ocean maritime zone - and the buttercups spring up without cease in my yard. A nuisance in beds where I want to place more deliberate plantings. Sigh, I've learned over three years, that these will perpetually be part of either my weeding every year or I'll have to try to contain them in some way that looks like a 'deliberate planting'.

Do roundup and the blackberry killer product kill other things in the area growing near or next to what you're trying to get rid of?

Gwen

As far as I know RoundUp and the Blackberry stuff will kill just about anything that they get on. However I am going to try in the morning to get rid of my Ranunculus with RoundUp. I haven't been able to get rid of it by digging, so I will forfit some plants nearby to try to eliminate that miserable spreader.

Donna