This week I donated some of these offshoot rooted plantlets to a local
bod setting up a folly/rockery. Then I realised I don't know what they are. Distinctive features seem to be able to live on nothing but air so I
assumed a rockery would be similar.
Colonised without human intervention from nowhere known, a clear polycarbonate roof of a shaded shed, seemingly just requiring a couple
of mm of dust to root into and no water. Later colonising some old leaf litter on a concrete path. Until , as unlike say ivy, easy uprooting
the plantlets only out of the dust/leaf litter, I'd not realised has
very aromatic leaves.
Earlier in the year dense mat of branching red stems and tiny white
flowers preceeded by red pointed buds. My guess so far is some sort of oreganum .
On 15/10/2025 17:04, N_Cook wrote:
This week I donated some of these offshoot rooted plantlets to a local
bod setting up a folly/rockery. Then I realised I don't know what they
are.
Distinctive features seem to be able to live on nothing but air so I
assumed a rockery would be similar.
Colonised without human intervention from nowhere known, a clear
polycarbonate roof of a shaded shed, seemingly just requiring a couple
of mm of dust to root into and no water. Later colonising some old leaf
litter on a concrete path. Until , as unlike say ivy, easy uprooting
the plantlets only out of the dust/leaf litter, I'd not realised has
very aromatic leaves.
Earlier in the year dense mat of branching red stems and tiny white
flowers preceeded by red pointed buds. My guess so far is some sort of
oreganum .
Possibly more likely to be something like /Thymus vulgaris/. Did you
mean to supply a link to a photo?
On 15/10/2025 17:27, Jeff Layman wrote:
On 15/10/2025 17:04, N_Cook wrote:
This week I donated some of these offshoot rooted plantlets to a local
bod setting up a folly/rockery. Then I realised I don't know what they
are.
Distinctive features seem to be able to live on nothing but air so I
assumed a rockery would be similar.
Colonised without human intervention from nowhere known, a clear
polycarbonate roof of a shaded shed, seemingly just requiring a couple
of mm of dust to root into and no water. Later colonising some old leaf
litter on a concrete path. Until , as unlike say ivy, easy uprooting
the plantlets only out of the dust/leaf litter, I'd not realised has
very aromatic leaves.
Earlier in the year dense mat of branching red stems and tiny white
flowers preceeded by red pointed buds. My guess so far is some sort of
oreganum .
Possibly more likely to be something like /Thymus vulgaris/. Did you
mean to supply a link to a photo?
No pic as nothing of the runners than a few small whispy leaves-a each
ond some very dry looking root mass.
The distinctive red , like dogwood, of the matted red stems "dissolved " into general grey leaf litter by october.
These spring/summer red stems looking like someone with a load of red
wire frame models of polyhedra had squashed them all, tangled mesh of straight stem segments
On 16/10/2025 09:27, N_Cook wrote:
On 15/10/2025 17:27, Jeff Layman wrote:It sounds like something I have all over my garden. My identifier says
On 15/10/2025 17:04, N_Cook wrote:
This week I donated some of these offshoot rooted plantlets to a local >>>> bod setting up a folly/rockery. Then I realised I don't know what they >>>> are.
Distinctive features seem to be able to live on nothing but air so I
assumed a rockery would be similar.
Colonised without human intervention from nowhere known, a clear
polycarbonate roof of a shaded shed, seemingly just requiring a couple >>>> of mm of dust to root into and no water. Later colonising some old leaf >>>> litter on a concrete path. Until , as unlike say ivy, easy uprooting
the plantlets only out of the dust/leaf litter, I'd not realised has
very aromatic leaves.
Earlier in the year dense mat of branching red stems and tiny white
flowers preceeded by red pointed buds. My guess so far is some sort of >>>> oreganum .
Possibly more likely to be something like /Thymus vulgaris/. Did you
mean to supply a link to a photo?
No pic as nothing of the runners than a few small whispy leaves each
ond some very dry looking root mass.
The distinctive red , like dogwood, of the matted red stems "dissolved
" into general grey leaf litter by october.
These spring/summer red stems looking like someone with a load of red
wire frame models of polyhedra had squashed them all, tangled mesh of
straight stem segments
it's called Herb Robert (geranium robertianum)
David
I see for herb robert, the stems turn red for plants in full sun which
is also the case here, shaded ones barely brown stems
On 16/10/2025 14:59, N_Cook wrote:
I see for herb robert, the stems turn red for plants in full sun whichThe habit you describe is exactly what I experience here. Plantlets form
is also the case here, shaded ones barely brown stems
in the air but those which do root are very easy to pull up. You'd think
it would be easy to get rid of it, but no! Back it comes every spring.
David
On 16/10/2025 16:10, David Rance wrote:
On 16/10/2025 14:59, N_Cook wrote:
I see for herb robert, the stems turn red for plants in full sun whichThe habit you describe is exactly what I experience here. Plantlets form
is also the case here, shaded ones barely brown stems
in the air but those which do root are very easy to pull up. You'd think
it would be easy to get rid of it, but no! Back it comes every spring.
David
By coincidence , I got up a ladder to clear the gutters. With the tile
grit and moss blockages was growing loads of this plant, obviously
perfectly happy up there. No trouble removing it as the roots don't root into anything structural unlike ivy, so if invasive then low in the
scale of problematic.
Loads more plantss for the local rockery-folly
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