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In mid-March, after posting to this forum and reading many responses,
I planted 'Blue Star Creeper' in my partly-shaded garden. The garden is 350-feet-square so I cut 612 plugs (each about 2 1/2" square) from 17 flats and planted the plugs 8 inches apart. For the first two months, the plugs looked great! However, by mid-June -- 3 months after planting, only a dozen plugs can be found and they look near-death. The other 600 plus have died (in fact, I can find no evidence that they ever existed). From the day the plugs were planted, I used an oscillating sprinkler to water the garden: Over the 3 months, the daytime temperatures have ranged from 55 to 95 degrees and the nighttime temperatures have ranged from 35 to 60 degrees. During cool weather, I watered the garden at least every 3 days; during warm weather, I watered every day. Does anyone tell me what went so terribly wrong? ===================== I now want to try a different flowering groundcover that grows under six inches. What suggestions can you make? |
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Replacement groundcover
gary expounded:
In mid-March, after posting to this forum and reading many responses, I planted 'Blue Star Creeper' in my partly-shaded garden. The garden is 350-feet-square so I cut 612 plugs (each about 2 1/2" square) from 17 flats and planted the plugs 8 inches apart. For the first two months, the plugs looked great! However, by mid-June -- 3 months after planting, only a dozen plugs can be found and they look near-death. The other 600 plus have died (in fact, I can find no evidence that they ever existed). From the day the plugs were planted, I used an oscillating sprinkler to water the garden: Over the 3 months, the daytime temperatures have ranged from 55 to 95 degrees and the nighttime temperatures have ranged from 35 to 60 degrees. During cool weather, I watered the garden at least every 3 days; during warm weather, I watered every day. Does anyone tell me what went so terribly wrong? ===================== I now want to try a different flowering groundcover that grows under six inches. What suggestions can you make? Where are you? Are you in any of the areas listed on this webpage http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/1892/index.html where 'Blue Star Creeper' is supposed to grow well? -- Ann, gardening in Zone 6a South of Boston, Massachusetts e-mail address is not checked ****************************** |
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Replacement groundcover
Hi Ann,
I'm Riverside, CA (about 60 miles east of Los Angeles). My USDA Hardiness Zone 8b which is one of the areas listed on the http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/1892/index.html page for the 'Blue Star Creeper'. Gary |
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