Re: Garden thugs
- To: perennials@mallorn.com
- Subject: Re: Garden thugs
- From: M* R* W*
- Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 13:38:24 -0500
Up until this spring I would have said lily of the valley and monarda,
and probably morning glory (I'm still pulling out seedlings 5 years after
I quit planting it) but I think I've got a new winner for thug of the
year...
Last fall I put in a 2" pot of oenethera speciosa-- now it's 2 x 3 feet
and spreading rapidly. It's so gorgeous though I can't bring myself to
pull it out-- like little pink poppies, and it's been blooming for 5
weeks and hasn't stopped. Am I letting myself in for big trouble?
Mary
MO zone 6
> 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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