Cephalaria gigantea

In a message dated 5/2/02 9:23:36 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
greenn@icehouse.net writes:

<< Thanks to all for offering your thoughts,deadheading seems the best 
solution for me.
 Connie
 
 "Saxton, Susan" wrote: >>

Connie,

Perhaps you should get more aggresssive with that Cephalaria.  Take a 
sharpened hoe and whack the thing off when you encounter one.  Sooner or 
later they will quit trying.  They are plants that do well with grasses, tall 
rudbeckias and that sort of thing that is thought of as modern German design 
- low upkeep.  They all look good amongst large rocks with paths through huge 
clumps of the grasses and flowers also in large drifts.

I once removed a malva, the ordinary sort with many common names.  I dug down 
around it and sawed it off with a pruning saw.  Then I put sodium glysophate 
on it and it finally quit. The root was around four or five inches thick.  
This seeds everywhere also and while blooming is a lovely thing.  Maybe some 
of these plants need a wild garden, a wide border against a wood or whatever 
you can provide.  They are nice enough to grow but are hard to use in more 
refined borders.

Claire Peplowski
NYS z4  (hey Paul - snow again?)

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