"Vacutone" wrote in message
s.com...
I've read positive comments about clover, regarding its
nitrogen-fixing etc,
and so instead of classing it as a weed, I have left what I think is
white
clover, just a few inches high, to grow in recently-made
herbaceous/shrub
borders where it is spreading around gradually. I'm wondering- it
can't be
this simple, surely. Is there any reason why I should not allow it to
live
there along with the shrubs, geraniums, (minor) periwinkles and other
ground
cover plants?

--
Vacutone

It just depends on whether you want your border to look tidy, where
individual plants grow together in the traditional way or you allow the
clover to weave its way throughout and become one mess, because that is
what will eventually happen if you allow a free-for-all. My advice is
to treat the clover as a weed.

Regards,
Emrys Davies.