Re: Bermuda grass wars

We have West Nile too and I'm the only 5 star restaurant in the mosquito
Yellow Pages. Must only hit people w/ weak immune systems. I have the
constitution of an ox fortunately....

Won't even discuss personality - LOLOLOL

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Daryl" <pulis@mindspring.com>
Reply-To: gardenchat@hort.net
Date:  Tue, 2 Sep 2003 15:57:02 -0400

>Dry shade is what my Mom used to keep Lily of the Valley in check, so you're
>right, that that may be part of your problem.
>
>I understand you wanting Lily of the Valley in your bridal bouquet.
>Sometimes things just have strong memories. We tried to find daisies in
>August for mine, too. My Mom and sister just about went nuts.
>
>Chinese Lantern overcomes Tansy? Yikes! Maybe I don't want to try again. The
>tansy even survived in the ditch outside our fence, where the road
>department guys would cut it to bare dirt ever now and then.
>
>I don't even want to think of what I still have to plant. Some of it's been
>in purgatory for a couple of years, but I don't have new beds dug, and it's
>still hot and humid as all get-out. Even my husband is finding it too warm,
>and he wears sweat pants if I have the A/C on.
>
>And the mosquitoes are about to carry us off - a human case of West Nile was
>found just a few miles south of us.
>
>Daryl
>
>
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Bonnie & Bill Morgan" <wmorgan972@ameritech.net>
>To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
>Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 6:58 AM
>Subject: RE: [CHAT] Bermuda grass wars
>
>
>> Believe it or not, I've had a hard time getting lily-of-the-valley going
>for
>> me too.  I finally have a decent stand after 10 years.  Perhaps I have
>mine
>> in too deep a shade and in an area that is on the dry side being overhung
>by
>> huge trees and the front porch steps.  It is my favorite fragrant flower
>to
>> the point I wanted them for my wedding bouquet some 34 years ago.  Of
>> course, it is impossible to find them in August in the mid-west! LOL!!!  I
>> had to settle for having some rayon substitutes made (allergic to silk)
>and
>> spraying a perfume that smelled like lily-of-the-valley on it.  On the
>> positive side, my bouquet never wilted!
>>
>> I hadn't remembered mother's Chinese lanterns having runners and taking
>off
>> everywhere either, but from my personal experience now, they most
>certainly
>> RUN!!!  I keep pulling them out of my tansy and folks say tansy takes over
>> the world!  My poor tansy is just a small clump this year because of the
>> encroaching Chinese Lanterns.  I hope to remove enough runners from the
>area
>> or find a new area to put my tansy so I can have a better, healthier stand
>> next year.
>>
>> We had a linden tree die this spring and there is a 1' deep hole where the
>> tree used to be.  I think I'm going to put an oval lasagna bed centered
>over
>> that hole and with the edges of the oval just at the drip line of the
>tulip
>> tree on the right and the plum tree on the left.  The area would have
>> afternoon/evening sun and morning shade there.  I've got a number of
>plants
>> I want to get into the ground before this fall is over and a number of
>> others I need to divide next spring, I'm sure!  Despite all the flats of
>> plants I took into work this year, there will be more next spring.  :>)
>
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Pam Evans
Kemp TX/zone 8A



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