Weeded around Rue and have three healthy starts about 2' foot long. Not looking for Anything Particular. No Herbs tho.

I've been looking all over for this and I think lisanti07028 and eline65 is right, Slender Aster. Here are some of my photos of 4 that I pulled up: If this is right and it is Slender Aster (AKA: Wild Aster, Panicled Aster and Salt Marsh Aster) then here is what I know about them. Wait until a day after a very heavy rain... if the ground is soggy, then that is ideal. They will fell like a miniature bush and not succulent like the pictures seem to convey. Get each branch that is down low, usually running under grass and pull them to the top and grasp them firmly and slowly pull straight up. They will come out easily with the full tap root. If they ground is not moist enough they will always break off at soil level. Although one photo indicates the root is off to the side, that one I pull up under a raised garden structure and was growing out from under a board. So expect to have the tap root straight down. They are perennial (but some sources say they are summer annual weed), regardless the flower heads have tons of seeds so if you pull them early before they bloom then you have significantly reduced new growth. Apparently a hard winter will kill them off, but not the seeds. Best control is a pre emergent herbicide such as Halts. Next best is a post emergent herbicide 2, 4-D+MCPP+Dicamba (which as I understand is Trimec) but it needs to be applied to growing plants in the Spring since by Fall they start to get woody and are much harder to kill. I'm far from being an expert on this (just found what this weed was that I've had for about five years) but I would suggest pulling them after a heavy rain at the end of Summer and then using Halts around February, and when they first start appearing pull them after a heavy rain. This year I didn't use Halts and I think they are worse. Some neighbors have their whole yard covered in them and it's generally those houses that were up for sale and not mowed regularly.

Yes, the dill and parsley are for the most part cool-weather herbs, but surprisingly my fennel has been growing year round for the past 4 or 5 years. It grows in partial shade. It keeps going to seed and then "tons" of little ones start coming up. It was full of cats earlier this year, to the point that nothing was left but stems. So I picked them off and moved them to another fennel plant across the yard. I also had parsely in the same bed. They wouldn't touch the parsely but loved the fennel. Who knows? Like I mentioned, Rue Ruta graveolens is a medicinal herb that gets pretty little yellow flowers on it. Rue can cause a rash for some people. I grew mine in partial sunlight until it died out this summer. I got mine at the MG plant sale here in Rockport. I order herbs for our plant sale from Don Cox down in the Valley. Sometimes he has it and other times he doesn't. Any nursery that deals mainly with herbs should have it. Be sure not to purchase the African Rue Peganum harmala which is a Fast-spreading exotic plant is poisonious to Texas livestock and wildlife.

Hi Decoy I can supply you with as much St John's Wort (Hypericum perforatum) as rootstock As you wish and am happy to get seeds of any of the ones below in return Echinacea (Echinacea purpurea) German camomile (Matricaria recutita) Roman Camomile (Chamaemelum nobile) Just email me your postal address via my members page and I will get it to you...sorry I can't help with any others on your list Cheers Peter