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WANTED: Looking for creeping jenny (lysimachia)

9 years ago

I'd love a few bags full of creeping jenny (lysimachia). If you are in Kelowna and clearing it out, I will gladly come and dig it up for you! Or pick up a few bags full already pulled out. Even a bag full of cuttings would be great!

I don't have many plants to trade for it but could give a small hardy lavender or lilac baby.

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imagooch zone 6b/7a Chatham ON
9 years ago
Did you get any? I am in ontario, but would send you some if you didn't find any inBC
signet_gw(6b)
9 years ago

Are you SURE ? you want this . I have a few plants that I am sorry I ever put in my gardens .....this is one of them the other three are Golden creeping Jenny ,Creeping Buttercup and Ajuga .....Ack .....these plants will ultimately make you want to tear your hair out They take over everything and are miserable to try to remove .

Signet
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Thanks to everyone for their comments, the encouragement, and for the compliment! :-) Yeah I've had creeping jenny for several years, and I know how fast it grows. I just wasn't sure if it had been killed past the point of it recovering, without me having to re-establish it with plugs. Would prefer not to have to do that. Y'know, at what point does a plant become so defoliated that it cannot recover --- I know it varies for each plant, and creeping jenny being so robust is probably pretty tough. I was just hoping that a) it would come back, and b) it would come back fast, without me having to wait the whole season. I'd be happy to send sawflies your way... :-) All I do to control my creeping jenny is to hand-pull it from around the bases of the plants in spring, and then when I mow along where the grass meets the bed, it gets a lot of it. If it starts going into the grass too far I just spray a little Round Up between the bed and the lawn, and that will keep it contained all season. I don't mind doing that too much because when it's established it chokes out the weeds pretty well, and I don't have to mulch the bed every year. We have had a lot of rain in the last day or two, and it seems to be responding to that. I'm seeing new growths at the ends, but not as much along the stems yet. But at least now there is new growth, which means they aren't going to just keel over. For all its aggressiveness, creeping jenny does make a nice background in a bed. My neighbors all ooh and ahh over how great the bed looks. Haven't heard much of that lately, so I'm guessing it's because the creeping jenny isn't looking so great. Thanks again!
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I already have creeping charlie that came with the property. It is green with scalloped edged leaves that can get up to 1 and a half inches wide. I fight it all summer, every summer,in 10 out of the 12 beds. Thank goodness it is easy to pull. I have had Golden creeping Jenny in a part of my garden before. It is much slower then charlie and flatter to the ground.It also has had winter die back and has been burnt out by a hot spell and crowded out by it's taller fellows which has made it easy to keep ahead of. Where as charlie is an iron invader.I understand the nature of these creepers. I have given the same warnings many times to other new gardeners. I deal with creeper menace all summer, might as well be one I want. If it goes where I don't want it, it's not weeding, but lifting a new plant to put someplace else I would like some,lol Well since seeds are out and I will have to spend money anyway, is there another ground cover plant choice that would work better? The area at the base of roses, around daylilies and the nooks and granies. Thanks for your concerns. Elizabeth
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Dianne (what a week, sorry!) I think I know what will work on your hill: Eubhorbia Cyparissias, a little spurge I have dug up on 9W, it spreads all right! I find it very pretty and interesting all season. I have it in a big corner of a bed around some dwarf evergreens it can mostly have to itself, I'm just going to put some bulbs in with it this fall. It grows about 9' tall, very bushy and filling, too tall and aggressive for growing in among other perennials as I want to do with 'Jenny', though not hard to yank out if it gets out of hand. I got six pots of Jenny, I hope I'll get them in this weekend (it's supposed to be ghastly) in several places, to see where it does best. There are supposedly Ajuga cultivars now that tolerate sun, I might try some of that too. I really like Ajuga. In my yard, once established, it hogs all the light and really COVERS the ground. No idea how well it would play with others in a bed though. I also got some creeping Phlox on sale to try out. Vinca always grows kinda sparse for me, no match for those hideous wild Artemisias (Mugwort, I think), they're my bane here. Here's a pic of the Spurge: Here is a link that might be useful:
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Sheryl Gallant
9 years ago
last modified: 9 years ago
Yes, I'm sure. I know it's slightly invasive in the ground but I want it for the pond. It grows great in a pond and a lighted aquarium just bare root with a rock to hold it in place and the fish don't eat it. Creeping buttercup is a monster! I made that mistake a few years ago too! I like creeping Jenny though. I don't think it's quite as bad as creeping buttercup or chocolate mint. I love choc mint but keep it in a pot now. Nearly lost my entire herb garden under it one spring. Crazy fast growth!

Most of the creeping Jenny I grow in the ground eventually gets pulled up and put in the pond or into an aquarium in the fall. I actually bought some last year when I put the new pond in here. The fish eat everything else green in the water.
signet_gw(6b)
9 years ago
Hi Sheryl , that is something I definitely did not know about creeping Jenny. I will try some in my ponds this year . Thank for the info . Did you ever get some ? I can send you some of both green and golden creeping Jenny when it warm up here if you like . I definitely wont miss it LOL!

Signet
josephines167 z5 ON Canada
9 years ago
I also have the green (same as your pic) one. Let me know I'd you are still in need of it. I'm in Ontario but it's not a problem for me to send to you..postage included...just....because :-)...message me/email if interested.

Jo
Sheryl Gallant
9 years ago
last modified: 9 years ago
Thank you both for the offer but I did get some :-) Got pots full on sale at year end!

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