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Re: [SG] Houtonia removal

In a message dated 9/11/1998 10:49:00 PM Central Daylight Time,
matttrahan@ECSU.CAMPUS.MCI.NET writes:

<<
  I'm considering letting it loose in my garden, IF - it doesn't stramgle
 everything else around it.
  I know it's a fast spreader, but can it peacefully coexist with other
 plants growing through and around it? >>
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Matt,

I planted a small division of it in a border of my patio that contained some
mini daylilies, sedums, heucheras and species tulips. This was about 4 years
ago. I neglected that border--didn't pay attention to it. Today all of the
OTHER plants have been strangled to death.

Had a friend(now a former friend) who had a sloping border where nothing was
growing except some dwarf conifers. She said she wanted a groundcover that
would grow quickly. I told her about H. cordata. She planted LOTS of it. It
was sensational;but, the next year, H. had apparently sent its stoloniferous
rootings UNDER a walk, got into her grass and into a perennial border some 20
feet away.

She and her husband sold the house. I was by there just the other day and the
back garden is on beautiful mass of Houttuynia cordata.

Clyde Crockett z5
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