Re: since we have show stoppers
perennials@hort.net
  • Subject: Re: since we have show stoppers
  • From: C* I* <c*@comcast.net>
  • Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 07:07:14 -0400
Goutweed/Bishop's Weed took over the gardens at the condo we own. The entire 
unit (8 townhouses) is infested with it out front including the "lawn". If 
there was nothing else you might have wanted to plant, it was ok, but chokes 
the living daylights out of everything else.
Cheryl
On Jun 9, 2011, at 7:48 AM, Kitty wrote:

> Chris, that goutweed is nasty stuff.  Yet I still see it offered for sale. 
> The only plants my house had when we bought it in '85 (built in '65) were 
> one maple tree, tawny daylilies & goutweed.  The tree has a lot more 
> company now. The daylilies are controllable, easily divided and given away 
> or sold. It took some work, but the goutweed is gone.
> 
> Kitty
> neIN, Zone 5
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Christopher P. Lindsey" 
> <lindsey@mallorn.com>
> To: <perennials@hort.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2011 11:01 PM
> Subject: Re: since we have show stoppers
> 
> 
>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> how about loses that broke your heart?
>> 
>> A much easier list for me to come by, lately.  No new plants
>> entering the garden, unfortunately.
>> 
>> I was sad when the Cypripedium reginae didn't come up after one winter.
>> It had grown into a splendid clump and shot up multiple flowers each
>> summer, but one year...  *poof*  It was gone.  :(
>> 
>> I lost a *lot* of plants to weeds -- our front flowerbed has been
>> neglected for two summers and a lot of the specialty plants in
>> there are no longer with us.  This year I plan to dig them out,
>> stick them in a pile of wet mulch, and then dig out whatever weeds
>> I can and use Roundup on the rest.  I hate to use Roundup, but the
>> bishop's gout and golden groundsel have gotten so out of hand
>> that I have to get rid of them.  Digging alone hasn't worked in
>> the past.
>> 
>> Fortunately, the front flowerbed didn't have much that was rare for
>> fear of theft, but the losses sting nonetheless.  :)
>> 
>> Chris
>> 
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