RE: Self-seeding perennials
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- Subject: RE: Self-seeding perennials
- From: M* D*
- Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 15:11:23 -0700
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Bill,
The little weed with the exploding seed heads sounds like it might be
Little Bittercress. It is a cool weather annual and just goes bizerk here!
I spend more time pulling this weed than all the rest put together.
You are joshing us that Ladies Mantle & Nicotiana sylvestris don't seed all
over the place in your garden, right? :) Boy I wish the Allium christophii
would self sow like the Allium schrophaleria (sp?) and the annual Poppies!
Marilyn
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From: owner-perennials@mallorn.com [owner-perennials@mallorn.com] On
Behalf Of Blee811@aol.com
Sent: Friday, May 12, 2000 8:41 PM
To: perennials@mallorn.com
Subject: 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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