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"Tex John" wrote:

"escape" wrote

Um, clearly you didn't read the blurb. This plant is not native and is
invasive
and listed in the TPW as "DO NOT PLANT." Please, do not plant ligustrum.


Yeah, getting back to the charcoal thread, this and cigar tree stumps were
the ones I eventually had to burn out with charcoal. Drilled holes filled
with buttermilk, then used motor oil, following useless attempts with Round
Up at regular strength then Round Up concentrate straight (that was on the
leaves before I cut them down of course...then the edges of the stumps after
they started growing again). And they were growing out from under the house
so couldn't get a stump grinder in there either.

The seeds on that ligustrum (we call them Wax-Leaf Trees) are even more
likely to sprout than Chinese Tallow seeds! And just as numerous. If you
don't mow constantly, you get a self-spreading forest.

John





The vast majority of the ones that sprout do not survive......
The local wildlife like to eat them, so do my emus. And no, they are not
eating the berries, just the leaves. Any young trees that were in the
henyard were long since destroyed by my birds. I have yet to see any
survive outside of my yard, and the back "wild" alley.

And they do make excellent hedges. ;-)

What is wrong with using a good, tough, low maintenance plant for
landscaping?

It's not like we are talking about Kudzu or anything!

You want an "invasive" plant, try muscadine grapes!
I think those are a truly native plant?
I'm regretting that I planted so many. We have to agressively prune them
every mid-summer, but they are providing an excellent privacy fence.

So, what "inexpensive" and fast growing xeriscaping plant would you
recommend? There is always hackberry, but I'm not sure you can stunt
those into bushes.

Oleander is also popular and low maintenance, as is Crepe Myrtle.

How about Mexican Oregano? I have a small one that I got in a 4" pot
last spring. It's already nearly 2 ft. tall and I've seen them grow over
4 ft. tall. Very bushy and attractive, and covered year round with
little trumpet shaped flowers. Might not be a native plant, but I doubt
that it's aggressive either since mine has not shown even any vegetative
reprodution and has produced no seeds. I'm considering putting more out
front if I can find them. I've not found them at many nurseries. It's in
my herb garden and I have used it for cooking.
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K.

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