Invasive whatsis

On Mon, 26 May 2003 23:01:01 -0500, some mardy inna cardy wrote:

>My "boo-boo" was several years ago when I planted a Calystegia 
>hederacea 'Flore Pleno' in a 6x10ft enclosed bed in the front of my 
>house.   Even though it is sterile, as claimed, its spread via 
>runners is faster than the 3rd Infantry going into Baghdad.
>
>Fortunately, the area is enclosed, but I am still pulling out sprouts 
>after 3 years.

Well my garden is one round of 'boo-boos' after another. I suppose I
shouldn't even garden with my health and my inability to keep up with
it all, but I just can't resist trying. Of course what happens
is,given a little neglect, the strong outlives and outspreads the weak
and eventually you have a garden of nothing but bugleweed and purple
spiderwort--as I now have. 

But looking on the light side, this gives you an excuse to NUKE the
entire thing and start over every few years!

I've got a mess to clean up in about half my yard this year. I don't
know what they call this plant I've got all over, but it's perennial,
variegated, grows in opposite pairs of oval 2" leaves on long thin
stems, swarms up the sides of buildings and up trees, invades like
your description above (which I'll be stealing for future use as it's
way too good to leave alone) and looks so ugly in the winter and fall
I have to wonder why anybody around here buys the stuff--yet it sells
like nobody's business. Very popular grown in containers as an annual
too, potted with a geranium, a ti plant and a bit of asparagus fern
(and then wisely tossed out when the season's over). Anyhow, it's
taken over the entire area under my trees, about half the yard. Next
week it's getting the Roundup treatment. I only hope the bluebells,
bleeding heart, dutchman's breeches and daffs planted under it have
died back to the point they aren't hurt.

Invasion forces. Aargh!

Melis

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