the achillea that ate my flowerbed
- To: perennials@mallorn.com
- Subject: the achillea that ate my flowerbed
- From: N* L*
- Date: Sun, 05 Mar 2000 16:29:03 CST
Last year I put in a new bed close to the deck, and wanted to plant fragrant
flowers. I put in a few perennials, and thought I'd fill in with annuals
until I got it where I wanted it. Anyway, I ran across one of those
cannister seed mixtures for fragrant gardens and thougt "aha! Somebody
already assembled the seeds for me!" Sprinkled the little seeds around, too
heavily I might add. Anyway, I didn't pay enough attention to the contents,
which included a surprising amount of perennial seed.
Well, one of the more prolific types turned out to be a particularly
voracious variety of achillea, which has now effectively swallowed the bed.
I spent a lot of the weekend trying to clean it out of there, and probably
destroyed most of the desirable perennials while I was at it. My question
is: will all of the little pieces of root and runner that I missed turn
into more plants? Do I need to dig up any plants that I can locate that I
want to keep and sift through the soil, or do you think by diligent patrol I
can get rid of it? (and to whoever asked one time about an invasive plant
to use as a ground cover, have I got a plant for you!)
Nancy Lowe
crying in my yarrow in Arkansas, zone 7
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