Re: Corydalis photos/Driveway plants
- Subject: Re: Corydalis photos/Driveway plants
- From: E*@aol.com
- Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 22:25:52 EDT
In a message dated 5/27/02 9:55:19 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
llebpmac_bob@hotmail.com writes:
<< Claire, I have the same problem with pinks. In the beds, despite sharp
drainage, they disappear within a year or two, but in the driveway they seed
and spread nicely.>>>>>
Well Bob, you will have to call the driveway, the driveway garden and let it
go. Plaintain also is my driveway and annoys my husband. He has a gadget he
fashioned to drip sodium glysophate on them. Otherwise, I am letting plants
grow in the driveway. Poppies of all kinds, catchfly (will bloom every month
of the growing season and it is a super cut flower) and today I found
Campanula glomerata in the drive. What can one do? Do you suppose it is the
deeply compacted gravel drainage plus early warmth of the soil? Whatever?
<<<< I can't grow Lychinis coronaria in my garden either- but I have huge
patches
of it in the lawn, where it manages to spread despite being cut regularly.
>>>>
This is a little tetchy as some people get very upset about Lychnis coronaria
but here we do not. We have that in the driveway also. Even in my sloped
high altitude garden, this plant will rot in the summer humidty if planted in
the garden. So underplant it with gravelly soil and mulch with grit or more
gravel. Plant on a slope so no water collects around it in the humid months.
It likes open space. I let that plant grow and bloom in two colors (Marge
gave me me some nice white ones) wherever it pleases. Obviously we have no
rules for most plants other than finding some place that they will grow in
our cold gardens. L. coronaria enhances many other plants and I like it
around despite it's propensity for making millions of children. Cerastium
behaves in about the same way.
Maybe you could place some slates here and there as a path and just call it
the gravel garden. There is a British book, a good one, on the gravel
garden.
I was outdoors all afternoon and evening and there is tremendous germination
of self seeders this year. Despite the 90 degree days in April, the killing
frosts and snow of May, still so many seedling volunteers. I have thousands
of hosta seedlings which is the payment for neglecting to cut off spent
flowers. Many others.
Claire Peplowski
NYS z4
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