RE: Garden thugs
- To: "'perennials@mallorn.com'"
- Subject: RE: Garden thugs
- From: S* S*
- Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 10:40:28 -0700
Just a reminder that a "thug" in one area of the country (or even your own
garden) may be quite a well-mannered and welcome guest in another area. Not
trying to discourage discourse, but simply trying to encourage you to try
what strikes your fancy, don't let other's experience discourage you.
I didn't try centranthus ruber for years based on what all the books said
about it spreading. After 3 years, I haven't gotten one seedling! Yet my
neighbor, in almost identical growing conditions, has seedlings
everywhere...
Ya never know until ya try!
But for me: Verbena bonarienses in my south/west bed. In all my other beds
it's well behaved. I'll be digging out huge clumps of seedlings all summer
long...
Susan Saxton, zone 6b
For mine is a little old fashioned garden where the flowers come
together to praise the Lord and teach all who look upon them to do
likewise.
Celia Thaxter
I AM in shape. ROUND is a shape!
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Myrna Miller [m*@nemontel.net]
> Sent: Sunday, May 23, 1999 8:08 PM
> To: perennials@mallorn.com
> 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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