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Thu, Feb 16, 12 at 7:31
| I never finished cleaning up my flower beds completely in the Fall. I let yarrow and rose alyssum just dry up and they are looking really bad now..I thought maybe they might reseed if I left them.. they look like pictures I've seen in books of tumble weed. yarrow is a perennial..should Ijust cut that dried mess down to the base of the plant or pull the whole mess up and discard it? If I pull it up it and discard it, it looks like I'll have to replant another seedling there. Another flowerbed, I see where there is new growth coming up at the base of the original plant. Why not this one that gets afternoon sun? What's your suggestion? |
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| Yarrow will re-sprout from its base so just cut the dried mass off. I wouldn't pull it up unless you want to plant something different there. You could tuck an early blooming annual in next to it until it grows enough to fill in the spot, then move the annual later on. |
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| Right before my company came today, I went out and cut back the dried yarrow foliage and once I got it cut back, I could see some new growth coming up. Lesson learned..Many thanks for your response and helpful tip. Found where a stepping stone was covering some type of bulb plant..took it up and laid it along side of garage brick..will see if whatever was smothered will survive. I think it might have been a tulip or daffodil. Daffs are up about 4 in. or more already so I have a feeling that is what it was. I can only see tulip just popping through the soil. |
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