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Here's a spot where I put some goutweed. One of those corner areas that look awful. I dug out the crummy clay/sand soil and poked the goutweed in, then placed a few flat stones from the beech.
The morning glory patch is beside that.
Here's that patch with an umbrella - I started some bleeding heart and it seemed to droop in the heavy western sun, so I put the bumbleshoot there just to see if it made a difference.
I don't think it did, but it made for a cute picture.
* * * * When sorting seeds, do not whistle. Plants: 2784 | From: Toronto, Canada | Registered: Jul 2004
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Very nice carly, be careful with the goutweed, mine is out of control. It has spread about 10 ft and that's with all the pulling I do to keep it half under control. It does look nice but it can choke out your plants.
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Oh, I wish it would spread somewhere - our lot doesn't have much in the way of plants (stuff that isn't wild, I mean).
There are large portions that are just clay/root/muck - it's good for 'ground cover' stuff really.
There's a lot of trees - pine, manitoba maple, some spruce - the maples on the one side are big and it's impossible to do much with the ground under it.
The picture I put up with the umbrella actually shows almost all of the south part of the lot.
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As you can see, I've put more stones in and placed little plants in them. I forget what I did actually - haven't even looked at it for a few days.
I put clover in my little circle.
* * * * When sorting seeds, do not whistle. Plants: 2784 | From: Toronto, Canada | Registered: Jul 2004
| Seeded: 69.194.112.206
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