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Jan 11, 2012 12:26 PM CST
Name: Veronica
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After reading the posts about lambs ears yesterday I went out and checked on my clumps..yes a few had grown into the bed around my 2 new foxgloves (Candy Mountain) that I raised from seed and only got 2 to live. Anyway I thinned them out and had a big pile but feel secure I can keep them under control..They pulled rather easily after our rainy fall..I have only had them 3 years so they are not bad..The blooms are beautiful additions to dried arrangements..So I will watch them and probably plant them in other spaces as I like the silver look..
Verbena Bonariensis is another plant that I love but it does reseed a lot..In spring I keep taking it out until I get the amount of plants I need in that particular..A few times I have found a plant transplanted by wind in another bed and if I want it there I leave it.
I also have a plant I got in a seed exchange a few years ago..The person who sent it had it labeled rudbeckia triloba and it reseeds a lot for me..Again I just keep pulling out until I get it the way I want it.
Last year I had so many plants reseed I had lots of them to pull...Just wondering if this year will be that way or will there be less reseeding...
I realize I may be wandering a little off topic but it seems to me anything that reseeds is a tough plant. Smiling
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