euphorbia cyparissias

In a message dated 8/7/99 8:44:09 PM Eastern Daylight Time, jspece@SBTEK.NET
writes:

<< > Josh,
 > This is Euphorbia cyparissias/Cypress Spruge...
 > I also have this and its a keeper.
 > Connie >>

Hey Josh,

I have had quite a bit to say lately but this is one plant that needs more
comment.

Cypress spurge can make seeds that last fifty years.  That plant will come up
in every cultivated spot on your grounds.  It will germinate from May until
October and will outlast your ability to pull as a weed.  A patch looks
pretty in the early summer in a place that you wish to cover and abandon.  It
is called cemetery plant here.

Beginning gardeners should be wary of gift plants when the donor state he has
lots of it.  That is the key to knowing you will also soon have lots of it.
A friend calls them spitback plants.

There are other euphorbias with good qualities.  This one has been
germinating in my garden the entire ten years I have been here.  Before that
my garden was abandoned for ten years and mowed as grass or fields.  Cypress
spurge survived all and still makes patches in the fields where it can
compete with goldenrod.

Claire Peplowski
East Nassau, NY
z4
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