Re: TANSY and other aggressives

Wyn Achenbaum <wyn@ibm.net> wrote:

>........
> friend.   Place tansy with caution!

I agree wholeheartedly.  I finally got all of mine out and now 
grow it in pots around the garden where I want it. 
> 
> 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!! 

I have a similar bed I refer to as the "Thugs Garden"  :)  There 
are mints, echinacea, gaillardias, sweet cicely, hesperis 
matronalis, ajuga 'caitlin's giant', solidago, joe pye  ... 
things like that.  I figure they all have a reasonably fair shot 
at pushing back against each other to maintain their own spots.  
It's kind of odd, but I sort of like it.  

btw, Cathy, my soil is clay as well.  watch that tansy.

jaime
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