On 7/11/04 11:58, in article , "Nick
Maclaren" wrote:

In article ,
Sacha wrote:

Wherever you plant them they will either flourish or die or migrate to a
place in which they are happy. The latter seems to be not full sun and
gravel. I love them to bits and have never, ever managed to grow them.
I've planted and struggled with the white and the pink ones and every single
time they have died on me. But several friends of mine who have planted
them tidily in flower beds have found that they have moved themselves in a
very determined fashion to gravel paths and are just about swamping them!
I don't agree with those who suggest damp areas for planting but that's just
my personal experience of them.

Possibly. A damp area on 60% sand in Cambridge is probably equivalent
to a dry area where you are :-)

Just about right! Talk about wilful....

And the lack of leaf competition could be right, though mine invade
some pretty dense plants. They have never invaded the lawn.

I've certainly never seen them growing into a lawn but as I say, I've seen
them growing in gravel many times and also among trees roots in considerable
shade. It's almost as if they want harsh conditions in terms of drainage
but as has been said, no immediate competition of leaf cover. When you talk
of dense plants, I imagine you mean before the leaves come out? I ask
because my ex mil had a mass of the pink ones long before they were at all
well known and they were under a tree and among azaleas, IIRC. When she
gave me a few to try, not one of them even showed so much as a leaf!
However, we're clearing a bed here which borders a gravel path and I'm
determined to give them another go, even though they've let me down in other
areas of this garden, too.
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Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
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