Re: weeds

Nothing quite like driving through the Mojave after a spring rain and seeing acres of it rolling over the dunes. Don't know how it would do anywhere else--never seen it anywhere else. 


On May 31, 2007, at 1:46 PM, Donna wrote:


Yes it is awesome!
Don't suppose it would like it here even as an annual.... but it sure would look nice flowing over the rocks! . 

Donna


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That's it. Gorgeous.

On May 31, 2007, at 12:57 PM, Johnson Cyndi D Civ 95 CG/SCSRT wrote:
Could that be abronia villosa? We don't get it here (not native anyway) 
but I remember seeing it at Anza Borrego, spectacular.
http://www.desertusa.com/may96/du_sand.html


Cyndi


-----Original Message-----
Cyndi, do you know the name of that verbena that's native to the
Mojave?
It's lilac colored and vines out low to the ground when it rains out
there, creating a lavender carpet.

On May 31, 2007, at 11:41 AM, Johnson Cyndi D Civ 95 CG/SCSRT wrote:


One of the good volunteers I get is California poppies, and I don't
pull those out. They never increase enough to make themselves a pest
sad to say. Gaillardia is making itself at home in my lawn as well as
on the outskirts of the lawn area, and coreopsis was spreading wildly
until I started yanking it. I would love it if verbena bonariensis
would spread out but I guess I don't have the right conditions for the 


seeds, although the couple plants I do have come back every year. I
remember the johnny-jump-ups increasing in my mom's little garden and
I tried planting them for years here but never got them to come back
with enthusiasm. Oh, there were one or two each year, but not more.
I am getting quite a lot of volunteer dill in the vegetable garden,
I've let it grow for now but I suspect I could pull it without qualms
if needed. I actually transplanted some of the volunteers into a few
bare spots, they are living but not as happy as they were.
Surprisingly enough I also got some volunteer cilantro this year - my
poor herb bed got so overgrown with weeds last year I didn't even know 


the cilantro had gone to seed. Also in the vegetable garden are wild
sunflowers. I have a love/hate relationship with them - they are
covered with flowers and bees, which is nice, but are also huge
sprawling prickly things that attract ants, which isn't nice. I
usually let one or two get big though.



Cyndi


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On
Behalf Of Aplfgcnys@aol.com
Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2007 8:17 AM
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Subject: [CHAT] weeds

I totally agree with that philosophy, Jim.  But the problem here is
that I just can't bring myself to pull out Aquilegia canadensis, the
little red Columbine, or Viola tricolor, Johnny-jump-ups, and both are
taking over my vegetable garden. How could I possibly pull or dig out 


the two-foot-square mass of Columbine with literally hundreds of
blooms?
Or
the similar mass of Johnny-jump-ups in the lettuce bed? I try to work
around them, and deadhead to try to have some space left for
vegetables.
Of course, I think the Columbine that grows up between the stones of
my front steps is charming.
And this week Dame's Rocket - can't think of its botanical name right
now - is popping up everywhere.  I wouldn't mind that in the flower
bed, but it prefers almost any other place.  I will have to pull out
lots of that, and I hate to.  I really like it.
However, peonies are beginning to open, and they are making quite a
display!  You may have lots of things we can't grow "up nawth," but
what is spring without lilacs and peonies.
Auralie

In a message dated 05/31/2007 4:50:06 AM Eastern Standard Time,
islandjim1@verizon.net writes:

Yeah, I don't pull them here, either, Cathy. Life's too short to pull
weeds with pretty flowers.





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