Re: Garden thugs
Yarrow. It is taking over!
----- Original Message -----
From: Myrna Miller <mmiller@nemontel.net>
To: <perennials@mallorn.com>
Sent: Sunday, May 23, 1999 11:08 PM
Subject: Garden thugs
> Hi, List members...
>
> What do you wish you had never planted??
>
> My two biggies are catnip (Someone told me that cats would eat the baby
> plants, and that would kill them....BBZZZZ... wrong! Not only do they
live,
> but they show up everywhere) and seed-grown veronica ( has spread
rampantly
> and is hard to dig out). To add to the regrets, there were a few pretty
> purple flowers here, in places, that I thought were OK, so I let them be.
> Well, it is a campanula glomerata, and it has totally taken over four
> different ares. The plant is very like bindweed, because the more you grub
> it out, the more it spreads, and it will strangle such dainties as
> astilbes. In all my reading, I've never seen reference to campanula
> glomerata being a thug, but it sure is here. The only solution will be to
> paint each leaf with RoundUp, when I have a spare week or so.
>
> Hoping I'm not alone with my tales of grief,
>
> Myrna, Zone 3, Montana
>
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