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Good plants for shaded areas?
Sean Scoggins wrote:
Interestingly, whoever lived here before planted some Vinca Minor, and it looks like they got (possibly just one) Vinca Major in there accidentally. So in some areas I have an "undergrowth" of Vinca Minor covered with a layer of Vinca Major! The Major will take over the whole yard if you are not careful. I have pulled up plants, left them in the driveway for days, and they have rooted when they got moved into a dirt-covered area by my car repeatedly backing down the driveway over them! The former owner of our house planted vinca major in one of the front beds. I'm about to try gross chemical warfare in an attempt to eradicate it - round up sprayed onto vinyl gloves (with several layers of gloves underneath) and then wiped on the plants. I've tried pulling them up, digging them up and the bloody buggers keep coming back. If it wasn't for trying to protect the plants around them, I'd say to hell with it and nuke the whole bed with round up or some other vegetaion killer. I am prepared for the idea that I do lose a bunch of other stuff if need be to get rid of this. Hate your neighbors, in-laws, relatives? Drop some vinca major in their yard. *sigh* Susan shsimko[@]duke[.]edu |
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Good plants for shaded areas?
Sean Scoggins wrote:
Interestingly, whoever lived here before planted some Vinca Minor, and it looks like they got (possibly just one) Vinca Major in there accidentally. So in some areas I have an "undergrowth" of Vinca Minor covered with a layer of Vinca Major! The Major will take over the whole yard if you are not careful. I have pulled up plants, left them in the driveway for days, and they have rooted when they got moved into a dirt-covered area by my car repeatedly backing down the driveway over them! The former owner of our house planted vinca major in one of the front beds. I'm about to try gross chemical warfare in an attempt to eradicate it - round up sprayed onto vinyl gloves (with several layers of gloves underneath) and then wiped on the plants. I've tried pulling them up, digging them up and the bloody buggers keep coming back. If it wasn't for trying to protect the plants around them, I'd say to hell with it and nuke the whole bed with round up or some other vegetaion killer. I am prepared for the idea that I do lose a bunch of other stuff if need be to get rid of this. Hate your neighbors, in-laws, relatives? Drop some vinca major in their yard. *sigh* Susan shsimko[@]duke[.]edu |
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