Mike Harris wrote:
|| "OmManiPadmeOmelet" wrote in message
|| ...
||| In article
||| , "BJ in
||| Texas" wrote:
|||
|||| stuck wrote:
|||||| I just planted some Asiatic Jasmine two weeks ago. It is
|||||| not
|||||| growing like I expected it too. It is very slow... I
|||||| would
|||||| say it has only grown about 6 inches. I know this is
|||||| going to
|||||| sound stupid, but is there something I am doing wrong?
||||||
|||||| -Bob
|||||| http://www.lakenights.com/
||||
|||| Is there something you are doing wrong? Yes planting
|||| Asiatic Jasmine. Best bet is to pull it all up before it
|||| starts to spread.
||||
|||| BJ
|||
||| snicker
|||
||| It's not THAT bad as long as it's planted in an appropriate
||| place. ;-)
||| It can be as difficult to control as, say, Kudzu.
||| --
||| Peace!
||| Om
|||
||| "My mother never saw the irony in calling me a Son of a
||| bitch" -- Jack Nicholson
||
|| I have the related confederate jasmine (Trachelospermum
|| jasminoidies rather than asiaticum) growing on my fences.
|| It's evergreen, not as invasive as most vines, and unlike
|| anything else I've planted doesn't go racing to the top of
|| the fence leaving gaps down low.
||
|| I'll second Om's observation that it does just fine in full
|| sun, if kept watered.
|| --
|| Mike Harris
|| Austin, TX

Confederate Jasmine may be related but it is not nearly as
invasive and it also has aromatic flowers in the spring.

BJ
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