Re: Iris Compatible Plants
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- Subject: Re: Iris Compatible Plants
- From: M* H* <M*@worldnet.att.net>
- Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 09:54:19 -0700 (MST)
ECPep@aol.com wrote:
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> Vinca minor has been mentioned elsewhere, on this list I think, as a pest.
> Here is a splendid example of a plant behaving quite differently in different
> zones.
Garden magazines love to warn of invasive plants to avoid & Vinca major
& minor are often mentioned but my experience has been much like
Claire's -- it pokes along & doesn't spread vigorously at all. The
funniest one, for me, has been Ribbon Grass (Phalaris arundinacea),
which garden writers in the US view with alarm. I got several starts
from a fellow mtn gardener who liked it's variegated presence in her
garden, as did I when I saw it -- I planted these starts in several
different places & circumstances of soil & sunlight & watched hopefully.
The plants all died within weeks. So much for invasiveness.
> Maybe just once I would like to garden where solid frozen earth does not
> occur.
Nah -- we wouldn't know how to act if plants came alive in February,
March or even early April. We'd just feel that something was terribly
wrong out there...
Marte in the mtns Zone 4/Sunset 1 Colorado -- where my entire garden
appears dead, dead, dead at this time of year but one must have faith
that the miracle of life will occur yet again!
