On Fri, 28 Mar 2003 15:53:45 -0500, spampot wrote:

Phisherman wrote:
On Fri, 28 Mar 2003 14:29:44 -0500, spampot wrote:


I have lots of LotV which I intend to consolidate and let spread. I
also have a rectangle about 3 feet wide and ten feet long between my
boxwood and a stone sidewalk, facing the morning sun (straight east, in
fact). I know LotV likes some shade; is this rectangle a bad place to
put them? There are tall evergreens across the street from it, about 80
feet away, but between, say, 9 a.m. & noon, the rectangle gets full sun.
Advice? If not my LotV, what then? I'd like something that'll look
nice all year, so will go w/a ground cover and spring bulbs if that's
the right answer.

Also, has anyone tried planta genesta in zone 6b? I'm in Maryland,
between Baltimore & Washington.


They should grow well. Morning sun is good. Our LOV have been
spreading like crazy, mostly in full to part-shade. They are emerging
this week in zone 7. The smell is wonderful when they bloom, but in
late summer they look like crap.

Thanks very much for the quick response. Do you mean they go brown in
late summer, or just get ragged-looking? My idea is to have a solid
mass of some kind of green, and ragged is OK up to a point.

Mine looked a bit ragged. But that's to be expected after the bloom.
The area goes completely bare in the winter. I keep the LOV bed
mulched with compost. It seems to grow well with very little
maintenance. My mother had them growing as a ground cover under a
stand of birch trees. Do pick some flowers for the dinner table.