Last year a little plant arrived on our drive. I thought it was a weed but I thought it was pretty so I let it stay. I put out a blog post about it and Mum told me it was a plant not a weed but I now can’t remember what it is called.
This year it has established itself all the way along the wall of our drive. It needs no looking after and thrives here giving a splash of colour to the edge of our drive. We are happy to leave it be.
I love it when something pretty arrives on it’s own and makes itself at home.
It looks really pretty.
Yes I think it does too. Sometimes a happy accident. Nature can provide us with little surprises.
I like this stuff. If you ever have any spare I’d like to put some in my garden. It looks easy to look after considering it colonised your driveway by itself!
You can take some next time you visit. It came on it’s own and survives in dry gravel. We have put bits of it in other difficult parts of the garden now.
I think it’s ground Ivy
It isn’t called ground ivy because my mum told me what it was last year, my uncle had told her. I googled it and they were right. I can’t remember now what it’s called though. I will try going back to last years blog and find it and then I will put out an update.
How lovely. I love it against the brick wall too.
I love the brick wall too, as a background to any of our plants. We are so lucky that this is actually our border but some long ago previous neighbours, before we lived here, had put that wall in for the entire length of the garden, back and front. That’s why we didn’t mind contributing to the fence on the other side. We feel lucky to have the brick wall. It must have cost a fortune to have that done and we have benefited from it.