Re: Strawberries
Deborah Lindsay wrote:
>
> Kurt,
>
> Your Strawberry is most likely Duchesnea indica, an inedible (to humans)
> relative of Fragaria. It's a good ground cover but really invasive and
> rampant in irrigated gardens. Birds will spread the seeds. Native of Asia.
> If you don't want it forever, get rid of it now.
Perhaps it is because of my cooler climate and the fact that I grow it
in the shade of a low wall, but I have had this plant as a ground cover
close along the wall for perhaps twenty years and it has not even fully
spread to the front of the bed. I have always liked it as it has appeard
to be so unaggressive!
It flowers and fruits yearly, but I have never seen any local bird
eating the fruits. Very unenterprising of them, I reckon.
Moira
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Tony & Moira Ryan <theryans@xtra.co.nz>
Wainuiomata,
New Zealand (astride the "Ring of Fire" in the SW Pacific).
