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: Elizabeth Barrette (ysabetwordsmith) wrote,
2016-04-13 21:24:00

Elizabeth Barrette
ysabetwordsmith
2016-04-13 21:24:00

Mood: busy

Wednesday Yardening

Today we planted and mulched five privet seedlings. This was made somewhat more difficult by the giant clouds of gnats. :/

Tags: gardening, illinois, nature, personal

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rix_scaedu

April 14 2016, 02:58:56 UTC 5 years ago

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Privet is one of the most invasive and persistent weeds I'm my garden. Deliberately planting it is...unnecessary.

Having said that, they're a nice small tree/bush. Small or large leafed?

Well...

ysabetwordsmith

April 14 2016, 03:01:07 UTC 5 years ago

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I think small leaved, but it didn't specify, just said privet hedge.

I picked privet because the honeysuckles are definitely invasive here -- which they were not several decades ago -- and the forsythias sucker aggressively.

I am rather left with a choice between bushes that grow too well, or not well enough. >_

RE: Well...

rix_scaedu

April 14 2016, 03:07:28 UTC 5 years ago

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I think the large leaf is more tree than the small leaf. Both have lots of flowers and berries here. Which is part of our problem.

Birds like the berries.