Same plant?

[Sparky]

Goldilocks sure looks a heck of a lot like Creeping Jenny. Same thing?

 

[Stephen Noble]

These guys say so https://www.provenwinners.com/plants/lysimachia/goldilocks-creeping-jenny-lysimachia-nummularia

 

[Lisak1]

That's interesting - I bought some "creeping charlie" one year only to realize it was creeping Jenny that stayed green. It's all in the marketing I guess!

 

[Stephen Noble]

That's interesting - I bought some "creeping charlie" one year only to realize it was creeping Jenny that stayed green. It's all in the marketing I guess!

Oh Lisak1, you are spot on! Many years ago, I was in a garden center that sold everything from pond supplies to lawn mowers and had the most astonishing revelation. On one side, they were selling bog plant 'X' for 8$ and on the other side in the flower garden section, they were selling what seemed to be the same plant for $3. I recall thinking to myself, "Self, the binomial nomenclature is the same so why pay more for a trendy name?!" I purchased the garden 'version' and it resulted in a very happy outcome. Every now and then, we still find this in the aquarium industry where some lout is selling 'aquatic' plants that are actually terrestrial.

 

[JBtheExplorer]

That's interesting - I bought some "creeping charlie" one year only to realize it was creeping Jenny that stayed green. It's all in the marketing I guess!

You were lucky! Creeping Charlie is my nemesis. That stuff rules my entire neighborhood. My yard has almost no grass because Creeping Charlie has taken over everything. It's unstoppable. I've been fighting to keep it out of my gardens unsuccessfully.

On one side, they were selling bog plant 'X' for 8$ and on the other side in the flower garden section, they were selling what seemed to be the same plant for $3.

Yeah, I've seen that too. My Stout Blue-eyed Grass was sold in the pond plant section for $10. I bought it in the native plant section for $4.

 

[Lisak1]

Oh Lisak1, you are spot on! Many years ago, I was in a garden center that sold everything from pond supplies to lawn mowers and had the most astonishing revelation. On one side, they were selling bog plant 'X' for 8$ and on the other side in the flower garden section, they were selling what seemed to be the same plant for $3. I recall thinking to myself, "Self, the binomial nomenclature is the same so why pay more for a trendy name?!" I purchased the garden 'version' and it resulted in a very happy outcome. Every now and then, we still find this in the aquarium industry where some lout is selling 'aquatic' plants that are actually terrestrial.

I was telling someone that in another thread. Ask at any nursery if they have "pond plants' and they'll probably tell you no. But look around and you'll find lots of things that will work just fine in the marginal areas of the pond.

 

[addy1]

We are invaded with creeping Charlie. The ONLY good thing about it, it gives the bees nectar.