Re: Organic/weed control

From a zone 4 gardener like you, try throwing 5-10-5 on the vinca in the
early spring.  That makes a tighter patch.  The vari forms need a few years
to become thick.


===>I'll try that, Claire.  Great suggestion--I never fertilize those sections and should.  But in this Cincinnati area, I'm more a Zone 5b-6a gardener.

<<<Symphytum grandifloria===>Would not want to be without this plant.>>>>

How tall are your plants?
===>They don't get very tall, maybe 8-12".  But they spread horizontally very nicely.  The world needs more dry shade plants like this one.


<<<<< Begonia grandis===>Not rampant enough here for a ground cover.>>>>

Does not survive here, Bill you must have some magic in your fingers or our
altitude is the difference.


===>I am on a ridge, but again, Zone 6a (almost 5b).  And this is planted on a shaded, clay bank, in the middle of a vinca minor patch. I also found a seedling of a wax begonia in the front garden which has to have come from a pot I had nearby last year.  And a coleus seedling from last year's plants out in one of the beds.  These both emerged just recently.

Bill Lee
South Western Ohio Daffodil Society (SWODS)
(hosts of the 2002 ADS Convention)
"Fun Knights and Daffodil Daze in the Queen City"
April 18-20 2002, Drawbridge Inn, Fort Mitchell, KY
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