Our exotic border was invaded by ground elder hitching a lift with lily of the valley. By allowing a canopy of growth to evolve, the weed is shaded out and I won't be leaving a bare patch of soil at the front empty for long
Q I can't seem to rid a border of ground elder by digging it out, as it returns from around the base of shrubs and from under a fence. What large-leaved plants will shade it out?
Teresa Birchill, Longford, Gloucester
A The white flower umbels of ground elder are typical of plants in Apiaceae, the cow parsley family, and non-gardeners could be forgiven for wondering why their gardening friends hate this plant so much. The answer lies below ground-because ground elder (Aegopodium podagraria) fills the soil beneath its leaves with a spaghetti-like mass of underground rhizomes. Not for nothing is it also called 'devil's guts'.
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هذه القصة مأخوذة من طبعة April 16, 2022 من Amateur Gardening.
ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 9,000 مجلة وصحيفة.
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