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Favourite Thug for a Med. Garden

** Reply to note from tim@eddy.u-net.com Wed, 24 Jun 1998 16:39:29 GMT


> 'Favourite Thug for a Med. Garden

Ok, I'll bite! My favorite Garden Thug is also a geranium. I know it only as
geranium robertianum (herb robert). Started w/1 plant 5 years ago, and now
literally have thousands all over our yard. With it's ferny type foliage, red
hairy stems, nicely pungent smell, and pretty small pinkish flowers, it is a
pleasure to weed where I don't want it, and I leave it everywhere else.  It is
useful as a fresh green in my compost, as I don't have grass. Friends and
neighbors always want some (I oblige!). It is thoughtful, also, it tends to
want to grow outside my raised beds, bordering them nicely, and helping to
keep the moisture in.
Anyone else have experience with this plant? I purchased it through Foothill
Cottage Gardens in the Sierra foothills, along with a Campanula Takesimana,
which I have never seen anywhere else (the flowers are pale whitish lavender
with foxglovey dark spots inside, and they hang like little lanterns...)
My other garden thugs I cherish are viola odorata, feverfew and redwood sorrel
(pretty shady here...)
Hello to everyone on medit plants, I especially enjoyed the recent staghorn
fern saga!
We have stayed cool and wet here this spring and summer (our season rainfall
is just shy of 100 inches), but I am enjoying it.
Maura

Maura O'Neill, Boulder Creek, CA
Sunset zone 15
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