Re: euphorbia cyparissias

Clair is absolutely right about this plant,I only grow it in a very hostile area
and it succeeds none the less.However we are high desert here ,so it is less
favorable to it showing its most agressive potential ..If you have the conditions
that favor it,beware.
BTW Clair I enjoy your posts greatly,I always learn so much from them..Do
appreciate yours and the vast  knowledge of the posters here..Thanks to all of
you.
Connie

Claire Peplowski wrote:

> 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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