Re: RE: Re: blackberries/gardenias

Well they do that here too.  Everyone that plants thems ends up cussing them after a couple of years.  

Pam Evans
Kemp, TX
zone 8A
----- Original Message -----
From: Bonnie & Bill Morgan
Sent: 3/28/2004 2:28:37 PM
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Subject: RE: [CHAT] Re: blackberries/gardenias

> No, Pam, they don't behave any better up north.  Dad LOVED his blackberries,
> so bought 3 plants and stuck them in the far back corner of the back yard.
> He had a heart attack that year, so he didn't have the normal time he took
> to prune and maintain them.  Pretty soon, he had a blackberry back yard.
> The funny thing is that he only had blackberries, but the next year, he
> found raspberries coming up in his blackberries.  I figure he must have an
> avian help to plant those seeds! LOL!  Watch out for the briars on those
> things!  
> 
> That's why we put our boysenberries in raised planter boxes.  We didn't want
> them getting loose!
> 
> Blessings,
> Bonnie
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On Behalf
> Of gardenqueen@academicplanet.com
> Sent: Sunday, March 28, 2004 12:19 PM
> To: gardenchat@hort.net
> Subject: [CHAT] 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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