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GC Southern Style, 'cottoneaster?'
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Posted by michele_1 MS 7 (My Page) on Mon, Apr 23, 07 at 6:52
| I asked the lady at the nursery if "cottoneaster" ground cover did well here. I've never planted it. She said, "Lord, no, it gets full of spider mites." Told me I wasn't pronouncing it right either. It was called cottonaester with a long O. Being from Mississippi, I pronounced it cottonaster as in "cotton" aster, the white fluffy stuff.
Well, I looked at my garden books again, and it says it should do all right in N. MS. It didn't give a pronounciation guide!
Any comments? I don't care if I spelled it wrong. |
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RE: GC Southern Style, 'cottoneaster?'
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| Some varieties are indeed prone to spider mites and to cotoneaster bagworms. Spraying down the foliage on a regular basis with a strong stream of water should help. Otherwise there are many great groundcover forms of this plant. It is pronounced "coe-tone-e-aster". Don't feel bad - one of the most mispronounced of all botanical names :-) |
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