Re: Clematis & Rocks

Oh man - it is the purple stuff she got.  Oh well, as much as she forgets to water, maybe she wont have that problem.  Hmmmm.

And those climbers have no support, so she has all these long canes just flailing about in the wind.
Sigh....

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Kitty" <kmrsy@comcast.net>
Reply-To: gardenchat@hort.net
Date:  Sat, 5 Jul 2003 12:20:30 -0500

>> Yep, made a pretty good haul at McDade's. Pat got some of that gooseneck
>> loosetrife (?) - thought that stuff was supposed to be invasive? I told
>> her to keep an eye on it. She says she wants it to spread.
>
>Lysimachia and Lythrum share the Loosestrife name.  Gooseneck Loosestrife,
>Lysimachia clethroides (resembling Clethra - Summersweet) is fast spreading,
>but not necessarily invasive as is Purple Loosestrife, Lythrum salicaria.
>
>> didn't listen to me about not buying roses at Wal-mart either and insead
>> of getting shrub roses, they are climbers, which is not what she wanted
>> at all. And they don't give the effect that she wanted in her spiritual
>> garden.
>
>Seems like climbing (stairs to heaven) roses might be worked into a
>spiritual garden somehow.
>
>> %&$#@!! about plants!! Jeez. People just won't listen to reason. Do you
>> ever feel like you're wasting your breath sometimes??
>
>Much of the time.
>
>Kitty
>
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Pam Evans
Kemp TX/zone 8A



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