Companion for lambs ears
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Comments (5)might be. But don't remember it growing that large. And may not have been that much in one spot. In the post Warning this may make you want to expand your colection(something like that) there is a pic towards the bottom of the post that looks closer, but can't get back to it. My puter keeps freezing up....See MorePerennials to Fill Gaps in Antique Rose Borders
Comments (8)Francie, I have alot of roses too, and I live in Minnesota, so I know what you mean by them not growing as big, but what are you feeding yours with? I use Bayer three in one for roses, it works great, you only need to do it 3 times in the growing season. As for perennials, there are some great things you can plant to accent your roses. Salvias are great, very easy to care for and there are some beautiful shades of purples. Daylilys,liatrus,speedwells,clematis, there are many. I have around 30 roses, and I have many of these perennials surrounding them, and it looks great. I'm new to gardening too, this will be my fourth year, and I just enjoy it so much. You can train clematis to grow through your roses, all of these are sun lovers, and will do well. I suggest a great book "Perennials with a Purpose", it's a great tool, as well as this website. If there is a nursery near you, you can take classes often for free, I have done this many times, you learn alot, but don't be afraid to try things. You want to give the roses their space, but mine are never compromised as far as competing for nutrition. I compost and try to do as much naturally as I can. I don't know how many roses you have, but get perennials that you can live with, I get what I'm drawn to. When I first started, I was buying "cottage" style plants, and I didn't even know what it was. Don't forget about shrubs, they're a great addition as well. I hope this helps you some, people here are very kind. Good luck this coming season....See MoreDwarf Lamb's Ear Rotting in the Heat?
Comments (3)Mine wilt during the hottest part of the day. The poor things seem to faint dead away in our humidity. The bottom leaves tend to brown easily and get mushy, too. I don't rake them, I just cut them off at the base. The top foliage still looks beautiful and the plant puts out new leaves often. They are very hardy and worth having, and they make good companion plants for just about anything. Just tidy them up every couple of weeks while the weather is hot and they should be fine....See MoreHelp I can't get rid of my lambs ear and I really don't like it.
Comments (18)I figure I could add something years later since other people added comments a year later. I moved into a rental house in Boulder, CO that had very well done perennial beds around the time this original post was written. It's been neglected for 7 or 8 years or so, especially the last 3 years. I can tell from Google maps the last year the lambs really took out for the rest of the beds and even the yard. I've been digging, pulling and now have covered an entire bed with clear plastic to kill the seeds before I'll consider planting there. The roots have formed an impenetrable mass and are sometimes thicker than my thumb. They have smaller roots finding them all together. I think if I were building a prairie Sod house I would be thrilled to find these. I'm constantly facing masses of sprouts and churning them over with hopes of killing most of them. We live in a Bee Safe neighborhood, and I don't think Round Up would have helped much anyway. I put an ad on craigslist and I've had many people haul garbage bags of plants away but eventually I got tired of answering the text-I think I had probably 50 people take A wavering amounts of these plants. I've never had them spread before but I stay on top of them, possibly since I use them in flower arrangements or pull them out as soon as they stray out of their designated area. I've discovered I now despise them and I don't think I'll ever let them grow again. I see them downwind from our yard and I'm tempted to go pull them now to spare them future agony- especially since it's likely the seeds came from here in the first place....See Morelady-fern_zdnet1box_com
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