Re: Self-seeding perennials

Marge, the plants in your garden are much more sexually active than the ones 
in mine.  Or else just more fertile.  Here are some from your list that I 
wish would spread themselves around in my garden, but they don't (and a 
couple that do).
 
 Brunnera macrophylla (Siberian bugloss)
 Hesperis matronalis (dames rocket - sometimes classed as a biennial)--Can't 
get it to persist at all!!!
  Aruncus dioicus (goatsbeard)
  Astilbe, primarily 'chinensis 'Pumila' and taquetii 'Superba'
 Allium spp ( if I don't get them deadheaded right away)
 Lobelia cardinalis (siphilitica IS rampant here but I like it!)
 Symphytum grandiflorum 
  Campanula latifolia
  Alchemilla mollis (lady's mantle)
  Primula japonica spp.
 Stachys byzantina (lamb's ears)--Oh, this shows up everywhere!
 Thalictrum glaucum (T. flavum speciosum, T. speciosissimum)
  Nicotiana sylvestris (I end up buying this every year!)
  Tovara filiformis 'Painter's Palette' (My one plant barely continues from 
year to year)

 And, yes, I have the same prolific weeds you do, plus chickweed (I think 
it's the kudzu of the North) and a strange weed with little white flowers 
that turn into exploding seed heads that I haven't identified yet.  Some of 
us in Cincinnati never saw this weed until about 10 years ago and we think it 
arrived in mulch.  Very prolific.

Bill Lee

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