"Karen Kay" wrote in message
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| | There are advantages to not mowing your lawn.
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| No kidding! Since pink oxalis doesn't move much (unless
| squirrels have been at work), where they are located usually
| will tell you something about a yard's original layout.
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| What do you mean? I know that it's spread a lot from last year, in
| fact--or maybe it's just showing more, because of all the rain. But
| I don't understand what it would tell me about the yard.
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| I don't know if any of my wildflowers were planted or random. The
| woman who built these gardens seems to me to have been more a
| formal garden person than a wildflower person, but I have great
| wildflowers.
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| Karen

Pink oxalis will divide and grow where it is (get thicker to the point
where you may want to move it), but generally someone has planted it
(or a squirrel has) where you find it. But for squirrels, its location
isn't happenstance and is often of long standing. I suppose that it's
in commerce somewhere. People I know obtain it either from a friend
who has an old garden, as a pass-along plant, or find it already
existing in their yard. No matter how long it has been there, usually
it has been deliberately planted where you find it. In older gardens
you'll notice that people seem often to have planted it to encircle
the trunk of a live oak, e.g. Where it is will tell you something
about how the ground was laid out in the past and what has grown up
since around it. What I've noticed is that the oxalis in a less
favorable location will go dormant and not appear at all sometimes for
a year or two, but then in a year of rain it will reappear, exactly
where it has always been.