Re: Artemesia Oriental Limelight Thug Alert

Hello!


Spreads?  That's far too mild a verb for this thug.

I planted a 4" pot last spring and towards the end of summer noticed some of
that gorgeous foliage popping up several feet away from the original
planting.

I guess that is the good side effect of the lack of rain last summer!


I've now pulled, hacked, and cursed for 7 months and the darn stuff is still
popping up.
The roots had spread literally everywhere, 8 feet out in all directions.  It
was an amended bed and I've had to uproot everything else in it to be sure
of finding every teeny tiny piece of root.  Miss a 1/8" peice of root and
within a few weeks more foliage will sprout up.  The roots also had spread
down into the horrid red  clay under the 18" of built up amended soil.  I'm
a Master Gardener and should know better than to have let this happen.
Cheryl... you might consider watching this plant a while longer before you
add it to other places in your garden.
I am putting my pieces in 12+ inch deep pots and leaving about 1 inch of pot above the ground and soil level is about an inch below. The foliage is enough to justify the work!

Cheryl
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Cheryl Isaak
Londonderry, NH
AHS Region 4, USDA Zone 4B/5A
growing, stitching and reading in NH

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