goldenrod and other natives
- Subject: goldenrod and other natives
- From: E*@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 22:49:53 EDT
In a message dated 8/27/01 7:04:21 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
llebpmac_bob@hotmail.com writes:
<< lot of the species ones turning up in my garden. That's what you get for
being surrounded by hay fields and rough pasture. >>
It sure is. Here in my gardens you get around a dozen species of flowering
plants that are really tough to eradicate. Saponaria is another tough
customer. Saponaria cannot be killed without a weed killer. I have been
cutting clumps of this down below the soil for ten years.
We also have many native verbascum and a few of the very tall large purple
thistles. Non-native but surely part of the landcape now, hemerocallis fulva
or road lilies. Many, more.
I saw a huge white white flower at the muddy edge of the pond one day and it
turned out to be ordinary and common achillea, the native plant also called
yarrow. It is nearly always planted as a drought resistant plant when using
a hybrid with color. The native white one grows in really tough places also
but give it some water and good soil and the plant grows four feet high and
produces flowers 5/6 inches wide.
I would be careful with native yarrow, it is a seeder and can survive almost
any conditions.
Claire Peplowski
NYS z4
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