Re: Troublesome plants
- Subject: Re: Troublesome plants
- From: B*@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 00:12:38 EDT
In a message dated 5/18/02 12:28:47 AM Eastern Daylight Time, ECPep@aol.com
writes:
> Feverfew, several kinds, is pulled up all summer from everywhere, Campanula
> punctata (supposed to be a well behaved beauty named Cherry Bells). This >>
>> Campanula should never be anywhere near good soil.
===>I can manage the feverfew profusion, but Claire is absolutely right
about this campanula. It took it a couple years to start, but after than,
boy-oh-boy is it invasive. And something eats the flowering stems before
they bloom, so I don't even get the benefit of the flowers very often.
> Corydalis lutea which was
> nice for two or three years and now grows on every rock in at least one
> half
> the gardens.
===>Are you sure it's lutea, Claire? I have the native C. flava which also
has a yellow flower bluish/grey foliage and which was quite handsome when I
first discovered it on the edge of one bed, but has since become a noxious
weed, popping up everywhere. I haven't been able to keep C. lutea. Makes C.
ochreleuca look like a slow-grower.
Bill Lee
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