Yellow Flowered Strawberries

[boboff]

Last year I dug out the Strawberry bed which was very weedy and neglected.

I potted up the plants and kept them in the Greenhouse.

I have planted them out this year in various places.

About 50% of them have grown back with smaller leaves, give out loads of runners, and now later than the strawberries have flowered with a strawberry shaped flower but it is yellow!

I have an awful feeling I may have propogated a weed, which now takes pride of place under matting in the garden, in a new bed and worst of all in several grow bags in the greenhouse!

Anyone know what this may be?

GOOOOOOGLE it first!!!! Sorry. I now know they are wood, or mock strawberries! Doh! I have been propogating weeds !!!!

[Millymollymandy]

I'm really sorry but I'm giggling cos as soon as I read yellow flower I thought potentilla - is it that?

(OK just googled mock strawberry and it is Potentilla indica). Poor you!

[JulieSherris]

But I bet they are GORGEOUS weeds!!!

[Ellendra]

Mock strawberries may not be as sweet as domesticated strawberries, but they are edible. I've eaten them myself and they're actually pretty good. If you like the way they look, go ahead and keep them!

[boboff]

I'm really sorry but I'm giggling cos as soon as I read yellow flower I thought potentilla - is it that?

(OK just googled mock strawberry and it is Potentilla indica). Poor you!

Yes, this has indeed caused some amusement amongst friends and family, who had until recently considered me a bit of a guru on gardening, having watched three episodes of Gardeners World and read John Seymour!

I think I will kill them in the beds, and plant them in the walls, they do seem to like the stone walls.