Re: Japanese anemones
- Subject: Re: Japanese anemones
- From: B* C*
- Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2002 18:30:12 -0500
Yes, I have a few perennials that I control with the riding lawn mower
too-in my garden that includes Geranium pratense, purple coneflower and what
would be Rudbeckia "Goldsturm" if it hadn't come up from seed all over my
garden. The plume poppy I control with a machete or scythe. I'm still
looking for something to control the poplars-I'm thinking dynamite.
We've recently revised our zones to account for the warmer winters, but
roughly your 4 is our 5 and so on. We split most of ours into a and b. This
leaves us in the lovely position of trying to figure out whether the tags
are in Canadian or US zones, which can be quite confusing unless we see an a
or b appended to the number.
Bob Campbell
>From: ECPep@aol.com
>There are plants that take more space than you would like to allot in every
>garden. You can still grow this anemone in many different ways with some
>imagination. If it confined to any area, say with some shrubs, that is
>defined by the lawnmower that will work. Many times suburban houses have
>driveway strips that have no plantings being long and narrow; a place for
>difficult to control plants. In border areas we have rocky formations
>(ours
>courtesy of Mother Nature) but the same can be made for interest in any
>border and provide places for very small, very vigorous and very fussy
>plants.
>
>There is a long list of shrubs that are kept in place by the lawn mower and
>no reason why a beautiful, it quite tall as well, perennial cannot be grown
>the same. Here where the growing season is short preventing many plants
>from
>running away are shrubs that sucker: lilac, quince, kerria, hydrangea,
>others. I dig up and replant tall phlox every year or if I don't, I
>should.
>
>Since the garden is a community of plants that have not chosen to grow
>together the gardener is the peace maker and lots of solutions are there if
>you think about that way.
>
>Somebody tell us the difference between Canadian zones and US zones.
>
>Claire Peplowski
>NYS z4
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