lily of the valley
- Subject: lily of the valley
- From: E*@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 19:21:55 EDT
In a message dated 7/18/02 7:02:57 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
genebush@otherside.com writes:
<< To stick some plans in there. I just spent most of the week renovating
one area of my garden. I had let a bed become overgrown with lily of the
valley. The thugs had smothered out everything else in the bed. First they
had to be dug out without damaging the tree roots of the white-blooming
redbud that forms a canopy over the area. >>
For one week in the spring you might like those fragrant flowers but for the
rest of the year they are the most annoying plants. Since ours is an old
property with an owner who loved gardening, there are or were a lot of these
easy things around. I have lily of the valley sprout and grow in places
where I never saw a plant ten years ago. They must be able to survive in a
deeply rooted form underground for many years. Then you get a rainy season
or disturb the soil in some way and bingo - lilies OTV everywhere. Good
luck, they are very hard to get rid of without digging deeply and following
the roots. The roots have small buds called pips all over them so do not
compost the plants. You will never be free of them.
Claire Peplowski
NYS z4
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