Re: Japanese knotweed or Polygonum cuspidatum

I wish I could, too...you need to take some pix this year and get
them to me and I'll put them up on the web so we can all see it!

I had 'Gateway' for quite some time; now have mongrels as the
original plants were mowed too many times by bambi and only the
self-sown seedlings in the gravel drive have survived.  It doesn't
seed quite true; some resemble it but most seem to revert to species.
Enjoyed it a lot and wish I had the real one back again.  It's
shorter than the wild ones I've had (some of which went to 10' and
beyond, but would never stand straight in my shade) and the flower
heads are larger and darker - at least mine were; with definitely
reddish stems - a really nice form IMO.

Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
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> From: Merri Morgan <mmorgan@wcgnet.net>
> 
> Thanks, Marge; I wish you could see it.  It's also the lowest care
of all my
> beds.  About all I do every year is root prune the Joe Pye and
Asters a
> little.  Without the root competition it gets in nature, the Joe
Pye in
> particular really wants to spread out.  It's so stupendous in
bloom, and the
> butterflies are so in love with it, that I'd never be without it. 
I'm
> putting in a stand of Eupatorium 'Gateway' at the far end from the
native
> Joe Pye to pick up when the native finishes; 'Gateway' is a
slightly later
> bloomer and a longer one.
> Merri Morgan
> Zone 5b, WV

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