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Sweet Rocket is invasive
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Posted by oldroser z5 (My Page) on Wed, Jun 1, 05 at 6:37
| but doesn't it look and smell great! I take my dog for a walk out to the woods every evening and we go through clouds of that sweet clove fragrance. Now there is one plant that deer don't ever eat. Too bad as we could sure use some help eradicating it. |
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RE: Sweet Rocket is invasive
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| I've read that too, but I've only seen it here and there in small stands. It just doesn't act invasive where I live in Ulster County. I even planted them by my house from seed. I tried to coax them to naturalize, but had no luck. So I've settled for linaria (money plant) instead. Now that plant can be invasive! But both are so beautiful. |
RE: Sweet Rocket is invasive
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| Sounds like a great plant just for the smell, never mind the critical deer resistance ... do you think it can outcompete the darn garlic mustard that is plaguing every spot in my yard that gets more than an hour or two of sun? |
RE: Sweet Rocket is invasive
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| It is certainly competing with garlic mustard in my woods and swamp. There are big drifts of it blooming wherever it can get some sun. |
RE: Sweet Rocket is invasive
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| I just posted about this in the hummingbird forum. I dug up one stalk of this plant by a roadside construction site about 5 years ago. It has become sooooooo invasive in the small garden I put it in - even coming up in teeny tiny holes in the driveway next to the garden. While I do like the flowers on this plant, I would never ever plant it again! |
RE: Sweet Rocket is invasive
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| Out walking the dog again this evening and the sweet rocket in the wood was playing host to a monarch butterfly. It sure had plenty of food available. |
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