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Originally Posted by kay
Like you, I'd be inclined to leave, but I've never tried removing it so I've no idea how difficult it is to keep in bounds. I can remember seeing a stately home garden with bank with cascading stream , and a large proportion of the bank covered with its bigger and more aggressive cousin Petastites japonicus - interesting article about t hat species he
John Grimshaw's Garden Diary: Petasites japonicus |
I shied away from weedkilling it as the leaves are in, under, and over so much else until they dominate and I don't want a scorched earth policy. As the conspicuous leaves are easy to pop off I'll just do that either until maybe it discourages spread are simply in perpetuity. You can clear square meters in minutes. Frost might knock the colony back so really it's a wait and see thing. I've planted hawthorn, blackthorn, holly, yews, a couple of Spanish gorse and wild rose along with the ever present brambles and nettles, so bigger competition will eventually limit it also.