Re: verbena bonariensis - replacement? and foxgloves

At 11:01 25/05/99 -0500, you wrote:
>Subject: Re: verbena bonariensis -- replacement?
>
>In a message dated 5/24/99 3:39:33 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
>SSaxton@Schwabe.com writes:
>
><< I don't mind culling out a few seedlings, but for some reason, in this
bed,
> they are like a thick mat or carpet each direction 5 feet from the original
> plant.  Way beyond some seedlings... >>
>Susan, I have some patches like that too.  Verbena bonariensis is very 
>insistent on its survival--but you're talking about 25 square feet of wall
to 
>wall bonariensis!!!  Wow.  I have a similar patch elsewhere of self-sown 
>cleome--not quite 5 x 5, but maybe a 3' diameter circle.  Of course I'm 
>leaving many of those because they help deter deer, so I've been told.  For 
>the cleome I will let a few of the tallest seedlings survive and just grab 
>tghe remaining ones by handfuls and pull.  I usually only have to do this 
>once a season.
>
>Bill Lee

I have the same problem with foxgloves.  I've pulled out literally hundreds
of seedlings from a similar size bed.  I've been amazed to read that some
of you have to go and buy foxgloves every year because they don't
self-seed.  As somebody else said, it really is extraordinary the different
growing conditions we all experience.

Louise English, southern England



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