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Did I plant another thug?
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prairie_love z3/4 ND (
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Sat, Jun 9, 12 at 17:15
| Brunnera macrophylla - I love it. I had quite a bit of trouble getting it established, now I have several with non-variegated leaves, and a few with the variegated (but not Jack Frost).
Weeding and deadheading today, I see a ton of little tiny plants that look a lot like brunnera leaves. Do these guys self sow? Are they difficult to keep under control? I don't mind having a few more, but don't really want the bed overrun with them.
Thanks! |
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RE: Did I plant another thug?
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| They do not selfseed if you cut the spent flowers off. It is easy. Otherwise yes, they will self sow. |
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| It's not a thug here. They barely survive at all. |
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| I overwintered it last year but it didn't come back this Spring. I've never heard of it referred to as a garden thug, not like goutweed, anyway. |
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| Echinaceae and Donna - that is why I was so surprised! As I said, I had a lot of trouble getting these established. But once they were, they seem to be doing great. wieslaw - "it is easy" - yes, well, many gardening chores are easy provided one can find the time. |
RE: Did I plant another thug?
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- Posted by mxk3 z5b/6 MI (My Page) on
Sun, Jun 10, 12 at 11:43
| Oh gosh - mine seed all over the place! I do love the plant, though, so I put up with it. I always intend to trim the flowers as soon as they're looking spent to avoid all the progeny, but in reality most years I don't have the time to get to it right away; I then have to put up with pulling the seedlings. Fortunately they're easy to pull from the beds...but not so easy when they crop up in the lawn... |
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| Prairie love:'Provided one can find the time': it takes 0.5 minute per plant if one is really slow. How many plants do you have? |
RE: Did I plant another thug?
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| mxk - thanks, good to know they are easy to pull. Have you ever potted them up or moved them to other locations and do they grow true to the parent? wieslaw - apparently I am very slow as it does take me longer than 30 seconds. The more important point is that I work full time, have other household chores (such as cooking), have a large vegetable garden in addition to the flower gardens, and don't always have gardening weather at the times I have available for gardening (as it is currently pouring rain). I am constantly behind in my gardening chores. Depending on which one is the more pressing at the moment, I may or may not get to deadheading the brunnera before they go to seed. |
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| Prairie love:'I am constantly behind in my gardening chores.' Welcome into the club. I'm the founder. |
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| I do believe that is part of the gardener's lifestyle = always more to do that should have been done last week. |
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| Last week??? Then you'll have to join another club. I have just found a huge collection of seeds in my basement. They should have been sown last year. I'm still hoping some of them will germinate(long live naivity!) |
RE: Did I plant another thug?
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| B. macrophylla has self-seeded around my front beds to the point that I now have about a dozen plants in addition to the one I started with ten years ago. Not exactly thuggish behavior, considering also that it's my longest-flowering perennial in a great shade of blue and requires little care or attention. I'd better go check on my hellebores - those thugs might have self-seeded again. ;) |
RE: Did I plant another thug?
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| Yes, they self-sow and by the hundreds. I have had to do a massive clean up to keep them out of the forest. Most of the edges of the forest are lined with them. |
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