Tellima grandiflora
Archive entry 01.05.22
22nd May 2009
Somehow, this is the first time I have though to include this pretty North American. It is a pernicious weed
with a stunning ability to resist herbicides and avoid being dug up. It is a monster. A very beautiful monster at times, but
still a monster. Difficult to believe I actually bought it originally. Really, I paid money for it and everything.
I have dug out thousands of plants in the wrong place.
At the same cash value I would have composted several lifetimes income by now.
In theory this is the form 'Purpurea' but I have never once seen the 'purple-bronze' leaves that I was promised.
At the time I was warned (by the seller, a kind and wise man) that it was an impossible weed.
I should have listened.
But it is very pretty. Don't plant it.
15th May 2011
I have never seen a plant with purple leaves in my population, but I get a few with dark flowers. They all get
weeded out if I get to them before they seed.
8th June 2013
Slipping across the meadow like the shadow of a terrible monster on the rampage but it isn't a shadow.
This is the terrible monster.
24th May 2018