RE: uses --Feverfew?

Could it be that you don't all have the same feverfew?  If you're growing
the species in a situation it finds comfortable it might be too happy.  But
if it is a cultivar that has been bred with more polite tendencies, it
might clump.  
I have no experience with feverfew, but lots of people complain about the
spreading of Physostegia virginiana (False Dragonhead, Obedient Plant). 
But the cultivar, P.v. "Miss Manners" supposedly stays put.  Then there's
P. 'Eyeful Towers' that would amble for miles if you let it, while the
species' travels pale by comparison.

Kitty

> I have to agree with Nora.  My feverfew form nice clumps and have loads
> of mum-like flowers.  Combined with other perennials, I think that they
> are beautiful.  I guess beauty is in the eye of the beholder after all!

> Subject: Re: [CHAT] uses --Feverfew?
>
> Hum... mine is fairy compact and not like chamomile which can look
> pretty
> raged. Wonder if it's the climate? It looks pretty good as a understory
> for
> roses and looks nothing like a weed. It hasn't been an aggressive self
> seeder either.
> Must be a area thing. So what's the bee problem?
>     I've just been skimming because I'm having problems at work , busy
> with
> school , picked up a part time job and oh yes my master gardener time.
> Don't
> know if I'm coming or going.
>
> Nora
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <EvaTEsq@aol.com>
> Subject: Re: [CHAT] uses --Feverfew?
>
>
> > I was complaining about feverfew because it spreads everywhere, like
> Theresa
> > said, but also because I think it tends to look weedy and scraggly.
> >
> > For instance, although I have it everywhere in my yard now, there is
> one
> > growing in one of my front beds next to ornamental grasses, and while
> walking
> > through my yard with my husband one day, he looked down & pointed to
> it
> with
> > contempt and said, "what's that?"  I could tell he does not like it.
> He
> said he
> > feels it resembles a weed.  This is what prompted me to inquire as to
> what
> > usefulness it might have.  I have a higher tolerance than my husband
> for
> plants
> > that do not look so "neat and proper" if I feel they have some other
> value.
> >
> > Eva
> > Long Island, NY
> > Zone 6/7

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