I think that might be campanula from your description.
MumMomWhatever on
This is always the way. I’ve even offered plants like this a better home in a scrubby corner of my garden, but they refuse to grow anywhere but a crack in concrete or around a drainpipe. So frustrating and/or sent to teach us patience and acceptance😁.
petrzzz on
The grass growing between the pavers of my neighbor’s driveway looks better than my lawn at the moment.
North_Fortune_4851 on
They’re lovely those
shladvic on
Good luck trying to kill that thing.
trailoftears123 on
We like to think plants grow because of us-most of the time they grow in spite of us!
wyflare on
My wife once picked weeds out of a random wall in lake como, Italy, because they looked awesome, put it in some tin foil and brought it home. 3 years layers it’s still going strong, currently living inside my plant pot along side my bay leaf tree
PhoenixDusk101 on
I noticed you’ve also got white mold on your brick work too. I had a load of it pressure washed off, but some has started to appear on another wall for some reason.
It seemed to only start in the area around the year 2020.
regreening on
Haha. There are some cultivars that are so vigorous many of us would classify them as at the very least weed adjacent. In my own garden that includes mint, campanula, buddleia, valerian…
Affectionate-Dog4704 on
It’s also known as “rock cress” on account of it growing like cress in the rocks. You might have been confusing it with “soil cress”. Right plant, right place.
Icy_Pass_2639 on
Leave it to campanula to proudly grow in the most impossible places looking on mockingly!
Yikes44 on
I think it’s a Parma Violet. I have them growing in practically no soil in a shady corner of my patio up against the fence. But if they’re happy there then they can stay.
Significant-Egg8119 on
If you’re lucky your wall will be full of those in a few years
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I think that might be campanula from your description.
This is always the way. I’ve even offered plants like this a better home in a scrubby corner of my garden, but they refuse to grow anywhere but a crack in concrete or around a drainpipe. So frustrating and/or sent to teach us patience and acceptance😁.
The grass growing between the pavers of my neighbor’s driveway looks better than my lawn at the moment.
They’re lovely those
Good luck trying to kill that thing.
We like to think plants grow because of us-most of the time they grow in spite of us!
My wife once picked weeds out of a random wall in lake como, Italy, because they looked awesome, put it in some tin foil and brought it home. 3 years layers it’s still going strong, currently living inside my plant pot along side my bay leaf tree
I noticed you’ve also got white mold on your brick work too. I had a load of it pressure washed off, but some has started to appear on another wall for some reason.
It seemed to only start in the area around the year 2020.
Haha. There are some cultivars that are so vigorous many of us would classify them as at the very least weed adjacent. In my own garden that includes mint, campanula, buddleia, valerian…
It’s also known as “rock cress” on account of it growing like cress in the rocks. You might have been confusing it with “soil cress”. Right plant, right place.
Leave it to campanula to proudly grow in the most impossible places looking on mockingly!
I think it’s a Parma Violet. I have them growing in practically no soil in a shady corner of my patio up against the fence. But if they’re happy there then they can stay.
If you’re lucky your wall will be full of those in a few years