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Old 19-04-2006, 10:19 PM posted to triangle.gardens
Jo
 
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Lavendar? yes... Lilacs? not so yes.

"marymind" wrote in message
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I found they did too well....lol
Jo, I wish you had been looking a year ago. I had to pull them out of my
yard and would have loved to have someone to give them to...sigh
A friend had given me three different varieties (all common to the
northeast US) from his grandmother's garden - white, deep lavendar and
light lavendar (sorry, don't know the varieties). I remembered their
propensity to form bushes so I paid more attention to trimming branches
rather than what they were doing within the soil. Before I knew it, they
had taken over my entire garden with runners and new shoots.
They had sun from sunrise to around 1:30 pm each day and did very well for
the few years I had them planted. So I'm not sure why Tomatolord told you
that they do poorly.
Hope you find some. My neighbors miss picking them and I sure miss their
heavenly aroma.
Mary


That is a shame. I have seen them all over the place growing up tree's
and over my neghbors fence.They do take over, but we have forest behind
us and we were hoping to fill in some of the gaps with it.

I didn't get to go to the fairgrounds last weekend, but I will try and
get there this week and hope to find some.


Jo