Being taken over by this plant

[SheStoodInTheStorm]

Hello!
I'd love to be green-fingered and have the time to cultivate our garden but at the moment I don't.
Each year our front garden is taken over by a large amount of a plant (see photo)

Can anyone tell me what it is and the best way to manage it?

Thank you.

I've called it a plant, but could be a weed! We have a lovely range of plants (roses, hot pokers plus others I don't know the name of) but this stuff is everywhere!

It’s perennial geranium. Can you dig it up? I have it in clumps around the garden as it’s fairly low effort.

We have loads of it - great for ground cover and helps surpress weeds. I just cut it back if it's encroaching on anything I want to see.

We had these geraniums everywhere. My husband hates the look of them and I found them very invasive. We dug them out where possible and pulled them where not. Two years on and we are rarely troubled by them now so it's easy to get rid of any that pop up.

We have them, they keep down all weeds except stinging nettles which plague our garden. I got rid of them all last summer but they are back with a vengeance now

They can be rampant, but easily controlled by pulling them out wherever you don’t want them. As others have said very useful to cover places where only weeds will grow.

I've got a large clump of that which has spread but I've pulled and dug out a lot. I've done the same with some other perennial geraniums which had spread too much too, and am trying to check regularly for any growth from bits of root I missed and pull out the edges of the clump as it regrows.

The roots don't go very deep, so i think it is a tractable problem if you want to totally get rid of it. Dig it out with a garden fork, and try to get rid of odd bits of root. Maybe it would be a good idea to then exclude light to prevent regrowth of remaining bits, if you want to be thorough ... depending on where it is and how big an area, maybe do something like park a tub there temporarily?

It's a good plant for the right place though, much more continuous flowering than most geraniums. It's a pity it's rather an insipid colour. A while ago I think I saw mention of another variety with similar flowering habit but blue with a white centre - I forgot to note the name, does anyone know what I'm referring to!

I think I've found the one I meant, it's Rozeanne.

www.rhs.org.uk/plants/153768/i-Geranium-i-Font-Face-times-New-Roman-Rozanne-FONT-Gerwat-sup-(PBR)-sup/Details

It is brilliant - great ground cover and discourages greenfly on roses.

We have it, I call it herb Robert but could be a number of the perennial geraniums. It spreads and takes over seems to trail above groundwork dark red spider web like stems, and the roots trail as well. While the flowers are quite nice it makes the flower beds look terrible once it takes over.

The OPs photo isn't Herb Robert. That has smaller flowers, usually red stalks and a distinctive odour when you pull it out. Which you have to do, if you get any in your garden because unlike domesticated geraniums it self seeds like billy-oh.

I made the mistake of leaving a plant which arrived uninvited, thinking it looked delicate and pretty like it does growing naturally in woodland - didn't realise it would be a thug in garden soil! Same thing with red campion.

I think it’s Geranium endressii. One of the only two geraniums that survived in my last garden which was rabbit-infested