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People that hate Bishop Weed
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Posted by
marquest z5 PA (
My Page) on
Tue, Jun 14, 11 at 14:33
| and Chameleon Plant. LOL
I understand if you like a formal garden or you have a small garden area. None of these things apply to me. I like full beds would prefer not to see mulch. I also have a lot of land. I have 4 acres and some areas I like to plant only blubs and bushes. I do not like to see the dying leaves of the bulbs so I use bishop weed, Chameleon, tansy, hostas, and carpet roses or plant that is aggressive and hides the ground to hide the bulb leaves.
I have never had a problem with them choking out bulbs or bushes. If it gets to thick I can just grab a handful or two and pull it out. Under the bishop weed is 100s of daffodil leaves that bloomed this spring.
This would never work for people that like formal gardens and mulch but it works for me.
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RE: People that hate Bishop Weed
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| I have a nice patch of Bishop's Weed along the north side of the house around the air conditioner. As with most plants, the right spot and use/expectation is essential. |
RE: People that hate Bishop Weed
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| My last name is Bishop and I still won't have it in my garden, but I only have a city lot. If I had acreage to garden in, that might make a difference. |
RE: People that hate Bishop Weed
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| a weed is defined as something you dont want where it is.. if you like it.. in theory its not a weed to you ... grass can be a lawn .. and grass is a weed in the garden ... i hated BW in suburbia .. if i had it on my 5 acres.. i probably be right with you ... but i will not plant it gratuitously ... ken |
RE: People that hate Bishop Weed
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| It's not that I like a formal garden, or am obsessively tidy, it's that I don't have the space for aggressive spreaders. It takes 30 seconds to walk from one end of my urban property to the other .... if I go slowly. Everything has to earn its place. If I had a big wild garden it wouldn't bother me either. Although, like you, I'd probably go for the variegated version, rather than the plain green. |
RE: People that hate Bishop Weed
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| Aegopodium makes seeds, also. Do you get a lot of scattered volunteers? I don't think most people's disdain for this plant has anything to do with the degree of formality in their plantings. No doubt it is pretty, though. I love variegated foliage. |
RE: People that hate Bishop Weed
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| Common green gout weed = @&%$&@"+% ! |
RE: People that hate Bishop Weed
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| I have a patch of Artemisia "Oriental Limelight" growing in a spot where other plantings did poorly. It's a rapacious spreader but in its current location it's a good choice. At least I believe it is, for now. It's gone under the sidewalk and emerged on the other side, but I can control it. I think I can... |
RE: People that hate Bishop Weed
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- Posted by lyvia 7 No VA (My Page) on
Thu, Jun 16, 11 at 10:19
| So there is the green goutweed Aegopodium, and there is the lacy white flower, Ammi majus, like Queen Anne's lace. Are they both hated? |
RE: People that hate Bishop Weed
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| purpleinopp,, I do not get volunteers across the lawn. I had a suburban garden and had it as a ground cover in my shade garden. To often because a plant does not do what some gardeners expect that plant gets a bad reputation. I see all the time that Lily of the Valley is to aggressive, I started with 4 starts and 5 years later I might have had 10. LOL. What is one man's nightmare can be another man's dream come true. I think before you write a plant off your list I would try it in a pot with your garden soil. Plants perform different according to soil, light and your region, (not your zone). A zone 6 in Pa is different than a zone 6 in W. VA. |
RE: People that hate Bishop Weed
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| No, thanks. I've spent hundreds of hours trying to rescue decent plants from this weed. The only thing to do was move. No piece of it will ever be allowed in my yard. |
RE: People that hate Bishop Weed
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| I have it along the back and west side of my house. It is controlled by the walk way. Nothing would grow there so I gave this weed a try. Love it in the right place. I do not allow it to go to seed. I check it each time I walk by! Removing the flower heads. In our hot dry conditions it is not to much of a problem. Lightens up a dark corner of the back yard. |
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