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Vinny 123:
I really like patterned foliage too, including in F. v.,but I always have to smile when it is a species such as lesser celandine.
In the normal form it is regarded as a dreadful weed, LLLOL.

Véronique Macrelle:
Weed’ is a point of view.
Wouldn't weeds be more like native plants trying to reclaim space; in short, to do their job!
What's more, lesser celandines take up space when there's not much else, they're always cute and still take 3 to 4 years to flower from seed.
the term ‘weeds’ applies to gardens where ‘nothing should stick out’. as soon as you accept that the garden is ‘a little disturbed’, there aren't many of them left.
2 species, however, that I would advise anyone NEVER to plant or allow to grow: Houttuynia cordata and Galeobdolon luteum.


otherwise, i love getting a native herb in a horticultural version: it's my pleasure...

Palustris:
I like them too, Sad thing is that the national collection of the forms seems to be no longer active.
So long since I grew them from seed that I cannot remember what they looked like when they germinated. I cannot say that I remember having to wait for the following season to see the leaves though.

Vinny 123:
A weed is a plant in the wrong place.

Lesser celandine will multiply rapidly, especially if disturbed, as it is all but impossoble to find every tiny tuber. It is also reasonably unfussy where it will grow, given the opportunity. The fact that it is poisonous just makes it even less desirable.

Go back maybe 10 years and more in the UK and every nursery had at least a couple of cultivars, and frequently more - Brazen Hussy was "everywhere", but I can't recall the last time that I saw any form at all.

Véronique Macrelle:
Last year, I tried to recover and pot up a few interesting volunteer seedlings, including the small yellow variegated Ficaria verna (pictured above).
 The tuber was minimalist, and I had to transplant it as a leaf to recognise it. The results were mixed: I found it difficult to grow back.
On the other hand, in a pot in the greenhouse, I can see that the leaf comes out all green, then becomes variegated later on.

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