Re: TANSY and other aggressives

I begged some tansy about 5 years ago from another gardener, and enjoyed it
for several years, but spent so much time pulling out new growth that I
finally got fed up and pullled it all out 2 years ago.  This year I have
two small isolated patches of it, and will try to remove them when I get
near them.  (One is in the middle of a thick patch of pink lily of the
valley that I hate to step on, and the other is in the rear of a bed backed
by huge hemlocks.  The first patch is about 8 or 9 feet from the previous
planting.)  I have pretty good soil here, at least in my beds, although all
my mint disappeared last year, and I just scrounged some from a garden club
friend.   Place tansy with caution!

I put some of my aggressives that I love in a bed of their own.  It is not
particularly improved, having originally been dug 10 years ago in an old
lawn area,  to test for a septic system, and it is a fair distance from any
other beds.  I put phystostegia (3 kinds, I think) and lysimachia
(gooseneck loosestrife) in there, in little clumps, along with some purple
Dames Rocket (hesperis matronalis) I found in a nursery after this group
discussed them (I'd wondered what those "wild phlox" were I'd admired along
I-80 in Pennsylvania and Ohio last June).   Let them fight it out, and hope
my vases are the winner!! 

At 07:23 AM 6/16/98 -0500, you wrote:
>>I live in Hamilton, Ohio, zone 6 (right now the rain capital of the
>>state of Ohio) and have a Tansy in a container.  It is growing like a
>>weed in this pot.  My question is, can it be planted in the ground?  
>>How hardy is it for zone 6.  Does it spread and want to take over where 
>>ever it is planted?  My ground is almost 100% clay. 
>
>Hi Cathy from Ohio.  I have Tansy and almost 100% clay here in SE
>Wisconsin.  Doesn't seem to mind, in fact it thrives.  I started by
>planting mine under my kitchen window because I heard it was a natural
>ant repellant.  It wasn't sunny enough there and the Tansy flopped over
>and was pretty unattractive.
>
>I dug and moved most of it (always stragglers I can't quite get) to a
>sunnier location and it's doing well now.  I'm sure it will take over
>whatever spot you put it in.
>
>Pat
>USDA Zone 5
>Pat-Mitchell@juno.com
Wyn Achenbaum
Stamford, CT, 10 miles from Long Island Sound
Zone 6

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