Re: Troublesome plants
- Subject: Re: Troublesome plants
- From: E*@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 23:14:16 EDT
In a message dated 5/21/02 6:06:02 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
miles@hspower.com writes:
<< > of artemesia (Ludoviciana, I think). >>
This plant is a beautiful cloud of grey at midsummer and enhances other
plants in the garden. We have two kinds, a thin leafed form called Silver
King and a heavier leaf called around here Silver Queen.
When it buds to flower it may also flop open and look untidy so we cut it
back to the ground after the ten inches or so.
Now, about being troublesome. It can grow in the lawn under the lawnmower
and can survive underwater (the pond) and probably make you wish you never
laid eyes upon it. Valerie Finnis is a non-blooming, supposedly non
spreading form of ludoviciana however I have found that mine does both, bloom
and spread.
I think if you want to keep this plant you have to find a place in your
garden where nothing else grows, it can be poor and dry soil. You can keep a
patch for dry flower work and it will look pretty good with tall purple
alliums planted in the patch. The alliums can survive the artemesia. The
only way I have found to slow down the spread of this plant is plant it in
part shade and dry soil. It is, unfortunately, a poor neighbor in a border.
Claire Peplowski
NYS z4
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