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Wednesday, August 22, 2018
Wednesday Vignette: Great Garden Magic 8 Ball
Oh magic and wise Windcliff, should I have planted Phyllostachys vivax, (giant running timber bamboo) in my garden twenty years ago without a barrier?
"You should have used a barrier or planted a more well-behaved variety like one of these."
At this point, would it be easier to move to a new garden than try and control the vivax monster?
At this point, would it be easier to move to a new garden than try and control the vivax monster?
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We are on our 5th neighbors directly behind us since we moved here 24 years ago. What this means is every invasive that I mistakenly planted and managed to remove lives in their garden and is always trying to get back home. Oh, the garden mistakes we make and must live with!
ReplyDeleteI keep threatening to cut the whole grove down but then I'd have to either spend an entire summer digging out the roots or just throw pots over the top until they rotted in 10 years or so... Yes, our gardening mistakes haunt us, don't they.
DeleteHahahah! I love how you used those signs in your post. The depths of your cleverness never cease to amaze me.
ReplyDeleteYou're too kind. It was a last minute thing when it was late and I couldn't find a good vignette in my pictures.
DeleteThe mistakes we make...But like Oprah said: when you know better you do better. (Yes, I did. I quoted Oprah :-D).
ReplyDeleteThe Akebia in the second picture is a vigorous climber as well. I realized I should have maintained it's sprawl only after rats built a nest in it. It now receive regular and vigorous pruning. The Akebia is unfazed!
Oprah's a smart woman so quote away! Akebia and Holboellia are pretty impervious to being cut to the ground fairly regularly. At least they don't seed around like Hedera helix.
DeleteI think we all have these. I like Hostas, but there are so many here and they were here when we moved in. Purple Wintercreeper and Bishop's Weed (also here when we moved in) keep trying to expand, and I'm doing my best to eradicate and replace them (slowly, over time) with other ground covers. But I can't afford to do it all at once (time and money). I'm living with others' mistakes, but I've made plenty of my own, too.
ReplyDeleteOur place was pretty much a blank slate so I can't blame any of the many mistakes on previous owners. Oh well, live and learn, right?
DeleteYour mistake was not planting the bamboo. The mistake was wanting a garden surrounding it.
ReplyDelete"Reply hazy, try again"
Ha! Good point. My next garden will be on several acres so there'll be space for the bamboo as well as other plants.
DeleteThanks for the laughs! We still feel a little bad about planting plume poppy at our old house. We kept it under control on our side of the fence, but it didn't stay on our side. I'm sure that even after the new owner removed those gardens they are still "enjoying" that particular plant.
ReplyDeletePlume Poppy has such interesting foliage though and doesn't require extra watering. Maybe bamboo and plume poppy should duke it out to see who wins.
DeleteWe have a few “runners” too, but they are small in stature and some day will just be someone’s “ground cover”.
ReplyDeleteHa! A friend told me the same thing about renovating a kitchen - best to look for a new house. I hope you figure out a way to corral the bamboo, of just live with it.
ReplyDeleteExcellent and creative post!!!
ReplyDeleteOh Peter - you are so funny! I feel your pain about the bamboo. Having successfully removed it from a stock tank, another upcoming challenge for my triceps is aiming the SawsAll to the black one in the ground, that escaped its metal barrier. Live and learn, huh?
ReplyDelete~ Anna K
Our neighbors planted some kind of running bamboo several years ago. I figure it will end up in our garden some day. UGH... BIG mistake.
ReplyDeletehaha, brilliant :)
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