Re: Troublesome plants
- Subject: Re: Troublesome plants
- From: E*@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 12:38:44 EDT
In a message dated 5/22/02 1:44:45 AM Eastern Daylight Time, Meum71@aol.com
writes:
<<
One plant that is spreading a little more than I had an impression that it
would has been the Nepeta sibrica, last year it bloomed for two months and
grew into a nice thick stand -- this spring my clump came up with
underground stems two feet away from were it was planted. In the right
space
this is going to be a very showy plant-but not in the growing
beds-especially
next to Lychinis 'Orange Gnome' and Penstemons. >>
Paul,
Do you have the seed grown species? I do and it does become a lage "group"
of plants. In the very early spring you can pull it all out and replant as
much as you want, potting the remainder to, in my case, give away. It is
extremely drought tolerant and most people do not know what it is in
midsummer. There are many nepetas around now, all of them with good
attributes. The first being that they never die, always return and are blue.
Nepetas are the plant of choice around rose bushes in the UK.
Siberica does not flop open in the summerheat, it has very strong stems.
Overtime one find plants they like and keep and send some others to the
compost.
Nepeta "Six Hills Giant" flops open and becomes untidy so is another plant
that can be sheared back around ten inches and become strong in the second
growth. It begins to sound llike a broken record with me but this is another
plant that should not have rich border soil.
Claire Peplowski
NYS z4
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