Re: blackberries/gardenias

I hope blackberry vines are better behaved up North.  They run wild here too.
Well, I did break my oath to never purchase a non-xeriscape plant again.
Bought a dwarf gardenia today when I went to McDade's for lemon verbena
and lava sand.

It's in a large pot so I can control the soil pH and will be on the
prowl for whiteflies. Found that sweet myrtle too that Jesse was looking
for. Didn't know they got 10' tall. So I made room for it out there
along the tree/shrub line. Just about using a shoe horn out there now. I
must be bonkers. Had to dig up a four o'clock tuber the size of a yam.
Wow. Monstrous thing. Just starting to drizzle now, so my timing was
lucky. Good thing too - really overdid it w/ my back this morning.

  

Pam Evans
Kemp, TX
zone 8A
----- Original Message -----
From: Andrea H
Sent: 3/27/2004 9:17:00 PM
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Buddleia davidii a noxious weed???

> talk about noxious weeds! You're actually going to plant a blackberry vine
> on purpose? Would you like me to send you some? I spend most of my time
> battling them to keep them from overrunning everything. I suspect they are
> actually dewberries but the concept is the same. They are tasty, but oh my
> aching soul they drive me nuts!
> 
> However, I am sorry to hear about the trellis and the rose. I've been
> fortunate not to loose anything to high winds yet, but tornado season hasn't
> quite arrived either. And then hurricane season starts of course!
> 
> 
> Andrea H
> Beaufort, SC
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Wendy Swope" <wendyswope@mindspring.com>
> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2004 9:47 AM
> Subject: RE: [CHAT] Buddleia davidii a noxious weed???
> 
> 
> > Thanks, Bonnie!  The garden may not be, er, unified, but verdant it
> certainly is! <s>
> >
> > I lost my 10 foot rustic trellis in the front yard to the big windstorm
> > last week (was it only last week? we had 50 mph gusts, for those of you
> > who aren't in our neck of the woods!), but the "Alberic Barbier" rose
> > that was trained to it may still be salvagable. No roots pulled up. I am
> > thinking of putting up pea fence and retraining it horizontally into a
> > space that has been a grass path between beds, and maybe adding a
> > blackberry vine or two to intertwine with it. Another big project! The
> > first step will be cutting the rose free of the fallen trellis, followed
> > by stripping the sod path and putting down landscape barrier and mulch
> > where I'm planning to erect the pea fence.
> >
> >
> > Did you lose anything to the wind?
> >
> > Green Hugs,
> >
> > Wendy
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Bonnie & Bill Morgan <>
> > Sent: Mar 23, 2004 11:31 PM
> > To: gardenchat@hort.net
> > Subject: RE: [CHAT] Buddleia davidii a noxious weed???
> >
> > Wendy, I happen to like your little corner of the neighborhood.  :>D  When
> I
> > think of verdant, I think of your yard, filled with life.
> >
> > Blessings,
> > Bonnie (SW OH - zone 5)
> >
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