Re: Liriope was: Vinca

I have a few plants of liriope.  I've wondered if I should cut them off.  

Jan - Zone 5

At 03:20 AM 4/19/2000 -0400, you wrote:
>In my experience, all Liriope needs a haircut in early
>spring....preferably before new growth gets very high.  If caught
>before this, it's relatively easy to do; if procrastination prevails,
>it's a pain in the derrière.  I have always thought that if I grew
>mine on a flat bit of ground, I could set the lawnmower to 4" and mow
>it...but I don't, so I never have tried this.  Has anybody ever mown
>their Liriope?
>
>Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
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>From: Sammy's huwumin <jcosler@MINDSPRING.COM>
>Date: Tuesday, April 18, 2000 9:06 PM
>
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>The clumping type liriope needs to be cut to the ground, or close,
>each spring b4 it's new growth starts.  For a shortish edger, that's
>not a prob.  But I have a friend who has a lot of it planted & it's
>gotten v. thick over the years & it is a major chore to cut it back.
>The non-clumping type, I'd have to look up re what has to be done to
>it in the spring.  I love it!  Look in a Taylor's ground cover
>booklet.....Lots of choices.....In the back there are charts which
>include such info as evergreen or not, zones, sun or shade, ......  I
>like that book.  My version is a 3b -- gc's, vines, grasses.  They
>don't pretend to cover all plants or act like a Dirr of gc's etc, but
>I think they're a good starting point!  HTH
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