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Posted by towers22 6 (My Page) on Thu, Jul 5, 07 at 14:33
| Any suggestions on a ground cover to be planted along the road side? Full sun and not too dependent on water other than natural rain. Poor, hard packed soil. |
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RE: Road side groundcover
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| I have some sedum along a small slope right next to the street. It faces south/southwest, get full sun, heat off the asphalt, snow dumped on it in winter, plus the sand. I never amended the soil, which is shallow, poor, rocky and sandy, and I hardly ever water it now. The sedum does very well there. I have mostly Westeinphaners Gold, (sp?) and also some kamschaticum which I bought by mistake, and both do really well. The WG turns a nice burgundy in the winter, also. On the other side of my driveway I'm currently filling in with sedum John Creech. I had pink phlox subulata there, but I had to keep replacing it. Since the sedum did so well on the other side, I thought I'd try the John Creech here, since I liked the pink. Dee |
RE: Road side groundcover
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| I will check out that sedum. I have some in my garden, can't remember what kind. I would like to know about some more ground covers for roadside. Maybe creeping charlie? filix. |
RE: Road side groundcover
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| This site has some good info. filix http://www.entomology.cornell.edu/Extension/Woodys/CUGroundCoverSite/GroundcoverMain.html |
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