Re: blackberry bushes
- To: perennials@mallorn.com
- Subject: Re: blackberry bushes
- From: D* K*
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 15:07:18 -0500 (EST)
Are you talking about blackberry bushes that produce juicy blackberries we
all know?
And what does "sucker" mean?
Doreen
>
>Ahh! You say you want blackberry bushes? Be careful what you wish for!
>I'm still fighting the ONE bush that my grandmother planted. It persists
>and is becoming impossible to control, even though the bush has long been
>removed and the area sprayed with lots of chemicals. It's babies like to
>come up in the MIDDLE of my perennial clumps. How does it know to do
>this???
>
>I don't know what variety you are looking for, but I hope for your sake
>that it does not sucker. I'd get as many vouchers for this as I could.
>You haven't known pain until those thorns wiggle through your leather
>gloves to imbed in your fingers.
>
>Have I said enough? I've put blackberry bushes right up there with yuccas.
>Both are impossible to iradicate. They'll be here on earth with the rats
>and roaches after a nuclear war.
>
>Val in KY
>zone 6a
>
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