Re: serious garden 'regrets' was: transplanting Wisteria/thanks/Be careful what you ask for!
- Subject: Re: serious garden 'regrets' was: transplanting Wisteria/thanks/Be careful what you ask for!
- From: "Marge Talt" m*@hort.net
- Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 04:06:51 -0400
Yes! The day I thought, "what a cute flower" and allowed the common
fleabane, Erigeron philadelphicus, to flower and set seed in my
garden. I will NEVER be rid of that plant who propagates by seed and
any tiny bit of root left in the soil.
Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
mtalt@hort.net
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> From: connie hoy <greenn@icehouse.net>
> Marge and All who offered their thoughts on the wisteria ,muchas
> gracias..it will join my other garden thugs ,shortly..To wit:
>
> Today has been a bitter lesson in gardening wisdom or the lack
there of....
> A great deal of time and physical effort was required and
spent,removing
> Bamboo roots/shoots which were attempting to pry off the house
siding
> ,with the foundation its next target..
> Always a lover of growing the exotic, that which everyone says wont
make
> it here,hence the Bamboo in this arid,hot and cold zone 5/6 high
desert...
> Well, its going on 11yrs now and that Bamboo is doing what
> B.does,grow,grow,grow....
> So while I question my faulties now,at the time success seemed so
> unlikely and of course ever the more desireable as a consquence..
> I still like it,makes a lovely sight,sheilds my bedroom window from
the
> summer sun and it surely is successful..But considering the labor
> required to contain it,etc..I can only wish this was on my list of
> unanswered prayers.:-)Anyone else have some serious garden
'regrets'?
> Keep Growing,
> C........
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