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| I do this every year. I was reminded on the Hosta Forum of how people hate BW. A neighbor brought some over to my house many years ago when I was putting in a pond in a area beside my house.
He said it was a good spot because it was a contained area. I fell in love with the stuff. But I see so many people hate it and I find it hard to believe. I wonder if it is weak in a colder zone or my soil controls it from becoming invasive. This is the first area I used it. Built up brick area that below is the driveway and on both sides concrete.
Here it is in the hosta graden. Has been there for 3 years I pull it out where I do not want it once a year. It has not stopped or strangled the Hostas. I find it grows shallow and does not have deep roots.
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| The variegated variety is not as aggressive as the non-variegated, though I have heard reports of the variegated reverting. It's one of my worst nemesis in several of the gardens I work in. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Even the Government has noticed...
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| Do not let it go to seed. If you see a white flower head cut it off. I have it and it spreads fast by roots. No reverting back here. It is awesome in a contained area. |
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| AT my old city house, it was the only thing that would grow in the drip zone under the eaves, bounded by the sidewalk. It has its uses. I had tried everything in there as the bare pea gravel was unslightly. I got it from my parents, who also used it in an area where nothing else would grow. |
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- Posted by purpleinopp 8b AL (My Page) on Tue, Jun 5, 12 at 11:07
| Absolutely love what you've done! Always do, you have excellent taste, and iron balls to use that plant. I never would again, anywhere. Kudos & cheers! |
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- Posted by Donna.in.Sask 2b (My Page) on Tue, Jun 5, 12 at 11:15
| I'm in 2b and it's an aggressive spreader here, so the cold won't stop it. I find that you can control it to a certain degree, but it's when you want to totally eradicate it where you will run into trouble. It's almost impossible to do unless you go after it for YEARS. |
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- Posted by buyorsell888 Zone 8 Portland OR (My Page) on Tue, Jun 5, 12 at 11:37
| I agree that it is pretty but I will never, ever plant it again nor advise anyone else to. Here in the PNW it is very invasive, I've seen it jump from cement containers (retaining wall built in planter) at my brother's, take over a friends entire back yard smothering hostas and ferns and also it jumped a sidewalk by sending runners under it at the house I rented before buying our current house. I thought it was pretty and introduced it to friends and relatives as I had just moved here from Arizona and wasn't familiar with it's habit. Twenty years later they are still fighting it. I moved.... |
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