Re: [SG] Gooseneck Loosestrife
Roberta - many thanks for the info. You have inspired me to make lemonade out
of these goosenecked lemons and I will try to do so.
Nancy Shlaes deGrazia (Zone 4a-I think - or maybe 5 by some measures)
Roberta Diehl wrote:
> Nancy,
>
> Yes, Lysimachia clethroides is gooseneck loosestrife. I'd like to know who
> told you this plant is not invasive. Most definitely it is! And not just a
> little, but VERY. Don't kid yourself; get it out of your perennial border.
> But DON'T pitch it out.
>
> I have it under hackberry trees in my Thug Garden with some real monsters
> and it holds its own very well and is so cute when it blooms that I could
> never get rid of it. It just must be confined by other like-minded plants.
> The plain leaved liriope spicata, sensitive fern, yellow archangel,
> English bluebells and giant Solomon's Seal can survive in there among the
> bedstraw, moonvine, euonymous, and Japanese honeysuckle. The latter four I
> am gradually eradicating, but they will probably never be gone entirely.
>
> N.B., for the next two springs you will need to watch for volunteers in
> the perennial garden, because every microscopic piece of root that remains
> will form a new plant.
>
> Bobbi Diehl
> Bloomington, IN
> zone 5/6
