Re: the achillea that ate my flowerbed




>From: "Nancy Lowe" <nlowe@hotmail.com>
>Reply-To: perennials@mallorn.com
>To: perennials@mallorn.com
>Subject: the achillea that ate my flowerbed
>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


Nancy,

I have learned more about invasive plants on this list and on another 
gardening website than I had ever picked up in many of the gardening books I 
read.  I certainly wish I had learned more about them before I decided to 
try a a few of them.  Too bad this list and that website are not required 
reading for new gardeners, or maybe we might not have had to work so hard to 
get rid of some of our mistakes.
>
Pat
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