RE: runner plants now need replacement idea

Um Rich and all....

I am not liking that news at all! I really like this plant, it looks
wonderful as a backdrop in the corner. So if I yank it all out, what
would take that 3X3 space and give me the same effect? 

I would think that Michigan would be a colder zone, but here the tansy
does die to the ground every winter. It has always been 3- 31/2 ft. I
was wishing for 5 ft to hide the entire fence :) It has been there for 4
years and this is the first year it decided to take on the runner style.
It always just got larger, but more a clumping effect. 

Well it stormed all night, still is.... thunder boomers galore. Next
chance to garden is Monday night- got a pond expo to get thru.. display
building starts today...

Donna

> Hi again Donna,
> Concerning your tansy, when I lived in Northern Lower Michigan (about
25
> miles South of the Mackinac Bridge) we had that plant in our yard.
The
> local story was that the lady that lived in the house prior to us had
> relatives in Texas, and when she visited them, she really liked a
small
> minature marygold sized border plant that grew there.  She brought
some
> back
> to Michigan, where it grew and grew and grew.  Donna, that stuff was 6
to
> 7
> feet tall, and with stalks an inch to an inch and a half in diameter.
The
> stuff was like trees, and was growing very close together.  The first
> spring
> we lived there, I burned the patch of tansy, and it burned for the
better
> part of a day, with all of the fallen stalks burning.  What a mess.
Hope
> you can keep it contained.  Rich in Z-5

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