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Looking for Perennial Creeping Phlox or Something for a ditch

15 years ago

I'm fairly new to gardening (this is only my 2nd year) and am trying to solve a problem with a drainage ditch that is nothing but weeds during the summer. I was originally told Creeping Phlox but that is turning out to be way too expensive. Now others are telling me ditch lillies. What is best and how is the most inexpensive way to find them. I've searched locally and there is no type of seed/plant exchange that I have found. Thanks in advance for any help.

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lifesblessings
15 years ago
I went to low growing sunflowers! After 30 years, nothing worked... then I put out birdfeeders in a tree close to the frontage. The next year the drainage ditch (called a "bar ditch" out here) was filled with beautiful sunflowers about 2 1/2 feet high. They bloomed repeatedly all the way into fall = in a drought year! without any tending. So I bought cheap sunflower seeds for birds and scattered them across the road and all up and down the drainage ditch. I never could get "wildflowers" to grow there - but these are absolutely stunning!
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