Daffodils are taking over the garden
joann95118
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Tulips and daffodils take over my front yard (pics)
Comments (15)We have have many rainey days here but lots of sunny ones also :-)) What I do is snap off the seed head part of the stalk on the daffs every few days and or cut (at the very top) off the dying spent flowers. In that mixed daff collection pictured wave after wave of flowers opens. As some finish, others start. So deadheading keeps the mixture looking good even now and they started weeks and weeks ago. In fact they started the very, very beginning of April. Here is how they look now with the last wave flowering and I have cut off all the spent blooms leaving the flower stalk. Here you can see the daylily folliage running in front of the tulips. It should make the tulip folliage much less noticable. Again, as soon as the tulips drop their flower pedals, I will snap off the very top of the stem which has the seed head. I just leave folliage, don't much worry about it. I find it's gone on it's own soon enough and there is always something else going on in the garden to look at. In the two belgium block mini terraces running accross which is were the daffs are, I plan to plant zinnias for summer long color. I will use seedlings and just plant them between the daffodil folliage. I am sure there will be some lang time there between when the daff flowers are all gone and I get my zinnia seedlings in. I haven't even startted the seeds yet as it has been too cold. But I have been growing zinnias in that front section for the past two years. This was before I put in the belgium block mini terraces late last summer. That then allowed me to plant the area in bulbs last fall as planned....See MoreWeed Taking Over My Garden
Comments (6)How big of a garden spot is this? It looks like it would be easier and much quicker to pull up the "good plants" and smother the whole spot for a year. Then uncover a small test spot & check to make sure it's well & truly dead before putting it back into use. Smothering won't work if not done thoroughly, heavy corrugated cardboard with seams overlapping at least 6", no holes in it, covered with at least 4" of heavy organic matter holding it down and completely blocking the light, and for sure covering all of the plant/roots. I think I would use 2 layers of it for this plant, one I couldn't kill when I tried getting rid of the top 6" of soil in a garden about 20 yrs ago. I've never had smothering not kill anything but this particular plant gives me the heebie jeebies. Good luck with whatever you attempt!...See MoreWill Euphorbia take over the garden?
Comments (2)i have the green and yellow version ... it moves around ... acting almost like a biennial .. old plants dying ... but i would never describe it as taking over ... based on your location .. which you havent provided.. i have no clue how it will act for you ... the link calls it an annual.. and states further: Self-cleaning, no deadheading necessary. which i might interpret to mean.. its sterile ... but thats just a guess .. ken https://www.provenwinners.com/plants/euphorbia/diamond-frost-euphorbia-hybrid...See MoreTaking Over the Herb Garden
Comments (6)Feverfew spreads by seed but not by running roots. It also has a very distinctive smell of chrysanthemums. If it has a running rootstock it isn't feverfew. Are the dead flower heads attached to the same plant? They are clearly daisies, like feverfew, but mine doesn't leave heads like those. Maybe it behaves differently in different climates....See Moreego45
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