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Plants for Difficult Places
wpooh_gw

Sugar Maple carpet of roots!!

wpooh
15 years ago

Will the vinca major vine grow under my Sugar Maple that has established a thick carpet surface of tiny hair-like roots? I'd rather see this growing there as practically EVERYTHING else gets choked out from the Maple roots!

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