We all love Alchemilla mollis:
It's a wonderful cottage-garden style filler plant: a billowy mass of tiny yellow flowers through the summer, tough as old boots, and very generous with seeds: and thereby lies the problem.
Alchemilla does rather spread itself.... I don't actually know anyone who's bought it, but if you do, you only buy one plant, and three years later they are everywhere!
They make wonderful edging plants, for “softening the hard landscaping”, as the books always tell us to do: planting a row of them along the edge of a bed or border will quickly hide any hard edging....
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