Is a thorny thicket the same as a ground cover? Afraid not.

A spiny shrub that flops over is not a groundcover.

Hermine is tripping again.


hermine stover wrote in message
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On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 22:56:30 GMT, "Cereoid-UR12-"
wrote:

In no way could any of the "Crown of Thorns" Euphorbias be considered
anything remotely resembling a ground cover. All are spiny shrubs with
upright branches. None grow prostrate on the ground.


I would not say that. In california where this is used as an outdoor
planting, the plants may be either prostrate, as they flop over with
some size, and form a tangle which certainly covers the ground, in
that the ground IS COVERED, tho not in the sense that a grass covers
it; also there are some very tiny bushy forms which if planted close
together, would certainly be groundcovers.

hermine