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PLEASE do the smart thing and don't poison your garden and your family and your pets and yourself by using pesticides. Oxalis pes-caprae is the Bermuda buttercup/sourgrass oxalis that so many of us battle to keep out of our gardens. The solution is to "wear out" the bulbs. You don't have a hope of getting the bulbs and bulblets out of your soil. You need to do what I did, which is to pull out every single bit of oxalis----try to get that long center root----and just keep at it, every year, until the bulbs starve. This works. I now have an oxalis-free lawn and back yard. It takes some elbow grease and a lot of patience. It's a shame these weeds are so prolific and invasive, because bees adore the flowers. Just don't use Round-up or any of the other pesticides people suggest. You will be healthier and infinitely kinder to the planet, if you pull weeds or smother them, rather than using poisons. Don't believe it, when anyone tells you pesticides aren't poisoning you and and your garden.

So yours is a very light pink too. Here's mine from before the triple digit heat wave sucked all the pigment out of it. My anthers look a little darker than yours, but mine was photographed in shade, and the Rice's probably was too. That might account for the difference. Debra

Carding mill has become my favorite David Austin this year when I picked it up at a local nursery. This one wasn’t on my radar and now I can’t get enough of it. The fragrance is incredible... and the color and form variations are stunning.