Invasive Plant
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- foxd
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RE: Invasive Plant
I've had bamboo in my yard for many years. It was neglected and allowed to run free for many of those years before I started controlling it. The rate of spread was slow in comparison to this stuff. I didn't even notice it until last year and this year it has spread greatly. Lance, I really think it would be a bad idea to plant this stuff. True, many plants have undiscovered virtues, but there are plants that just don't have much in the way of virtues.
Southern Indiana.
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The legal issues that will arise when the undead walk the earth are legion, and addressing them all is well beyond what could reasonably be accomplished in this brief Essay. Indeed, a complete treatment of the tax issues alone would require several volumes.
RE: Invasive Plant
Plants perform differently in diverse environments. A Norway maple is considered 'weedy' here in the Northeast versus 'not weedy' in the West.
It's all about location, location, location. You can't judge a plant by it's growth pattern in one area Lance's environment is definately different then most of ours. I know gardeners who have been trying to get rid of bindweed for years and have tried everything from chemicals to sterilization of all soil to excavation and still have problems with the stuff.
It's all about location, location, location. You can't judge a plant by it's growth pattern in one area Lance's environment is definately different then most of ours. I know gardeners who have been trying to get rid of bindweed for years and have tried everything from chemicals to sterilization of all soil to excavation and still have problems with the stuff.
- foxd
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RE: Invasive Plant
I've had experience with bindweed too. The time I hadn't been in the basement for a while and walked down there to find one wall covered with it.
Southern Indiana.
My Bamboo List.
The legal issues that will arise when the undead walk the earth are legion, and addressing them all is well beyond what could reasonably be accomplished in this brief Essay. Indeed, a complete treatment of the tax issues alone would require several volumes.
My Bamboo List.
The legal issues that will arise when the undead walk the earth are legion, and addressing them all is well beyond what could reasonably be accomplished in this brief Essay. Indeed, a complete treatment of the tax issues alone would require several volumes.
- CadyG
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Like Kyuzo (pictured above) in "The Seven Samurai," I've "...Killed (more than) two..." bamboos.
Re: RE: Invasive Plant
Bindweed?! Let us not speak that cursed name on this forum! I have a stretch of garden bed that came with an infestation of bindweed, and after 12 years I have not made a dent in eradicating it.foxd wrote:I've had experience with bindweed too. The time I hadn't been in the basement for a while and walked down there to find one wall covered with it.
Cady G.
"Killed two..." -- Seiji Miyaguchi/Kyuzo
"Killed two..." -- Seiji Miyaguchi/Kyuzo
RE: Invasive Plant
Cady, my condolescences. That stuff is terrible. I have been waging war with Houtynnia cordata for years now in one area. I planted bamboos to combat it. Roundup just made it stronger and stronger.
- CadyG
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Like Kyuzo (pictured above) in "The Seven Samurai," I've "...Killed (more than) two..." bamboos.
RE: Invasive Plant
I have Houtanniya too, but it has been much easier to control than bindweed. In fact, it's well-behaved because it's planted in little "oasis" pockets surrounded by more hostile terrain -- rock. So, it is naturally contained. The bindweed, on the other hand, has full rein - and reign - in a well-tilled flowerbed. Grrrr.
Cady G.
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- Jeff: Igor's Apprentice
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RE: Invasive Plant
L K, if you are bent on getting this plant you might at least consider the cultivar 'Crimson Beauty' which PDN claims is distinguishable from the "weedy" species. Somebody is selling it on ebay right now and they appear to have a fairly good record though I didn't go into it that closely.
http://cgi.ebay.com/Crimson-Beauty-Mexi ... dZViewItem
Incidentally, someone is also selling a large Mexican Weeping Bamboo as well. Some nice pics of that.
http://cgi.ebay.com/Crimson-Beauty-Mexi ... dZViewItem
Incidentally, someone is also selling a large Mexican Weeping Bamboo as well. Some nice pics of that.
RE: Invasive Plant
'crimson beauty' has been put in my collection this spring. From the pics circulating, looks like it could be, a quite spendid addition.