NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! It's sooooooo pretty! It's very hard to believe that two different traders sent me loosestrife, unless one had extra from another trade, who happened to be one of my traders! Well, I don't want to get rid of it, so I'll just have to keep it deadheaded and keep an eye on it. I really love it's tendency to remain upright...

I have heard that if you take off too much, they will lag before they start blooming again, but they will. I am always pinching them back to keep them full. I have seen some Greggiis get leggy because of not enough trimming back. J months sound good. I have also heard that when they get woody, and older, their "growth" nodes get wooded in so branching out becomes more difficult for them.Get them nice and bushy when they are young. That's the ticket. Mine are still blooming up a storm so I will wait till July. I like to collect the seeds.

While I appreciate the feedback, and this discussion is kind of the point of a 'discussion board', I still don't see where my post had "errors". Between the posts of this thread, I have read that between 4-6 layers of newspaper is recommended. Instead of pointing out an error, you actually confirmed my statement. It takes trial and error to find the right amount (i.e. "difficult to control the quantity"). We'll have to agree to disagree about mulch mats and aesthetics. I can only speak to synthetic weed block and hemp mats. The synthetic stuff looks horrible alone, and I don't know anyone who doesn't put something over it. The hemp mats don't need anything over them, unless you don't like the looks. I think that's probably one of the competitive advantages of this product. If it's innovative, that doesn't make it wrong, or "never intended." The website says it can be used alone, so I don't know where the "never intended" comes from. True about gravity. It takes water, wind, foot traffic, or animals to move mulch on hills, along with gravity. I thought that was kind of assumed at our ages. My gravity comment referred to whatever is put on top of the newspaper on a hill, not the newspaper itself. It's spelled out clearly in my first post. No worries about the 'errors' in your post, annpat. Just trying to make a point! The term errors is pretty strong... To be clear, to answer the OP, I have used newspaper as mulch, and it has been successful. There are downsides to using it, just as in any specific type of mulch.

if you could just give it 6 inches of no mowing ... for a month or two ... you could dig out the bulb and move it to a garden bed ... on such.. you need to let the plant restore energy.. before it goes dormant ... if you dig it now.. maybe you win.. maybe you dont ... but looking at that perfect green carpet .. i doubt you want to let it naturalize.. as flora suggests ... what surprises me.. with your perfect lawn .. is that it seems immune to excessive fert.. and presumably weed agents ... go figure.. tough little bugger ... if you want it moved... take a butcher knife ... cut a cross .. pull back the sod.. so you can dig out the bulb ... go place it in a garden bed ... and reset the sod ... and bobs your uncle ... ken