Re: Help with hops
- To: perennials@mallorn.com
- Subject: Re: Help with hops
- From: C* C*
- Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1998 09:55:13 +0000
At 09:12 AM 11/5/98 -0500, you wrote:
>I agree with Margaret. I have planted the golden hops vine, and while it is
>a wonderful color for a climber, beware! I have really gotten torn up by
>the darned thing. I have mine behind a miscanthus and if the hops doesn't
>get me, the miscanthus does. However, they do cover things in a hurry, so
>you decide.
>
>Ginny (zone 6)
Here in Louisiana, Mo, we have hops growing wild all over the place. When I
first moved here, I wasn't familiar with it but now I hate the stuff. It
takes over in my yard every year and grows like crazy. It keeps coming back
up after being mowed in the lawn and smothers whole beds of perennials if I
ignore it too long.
The natives call it "inch weed". I prefer what my college professor who
identified it for me, called it, "chainsaw weed" ! He said it has escaped
cultivation from long ago breweries.
I wish I could give all the starts of it you wanted, come and dig 'em!
Catherine (zone 5)
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