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Posted: Mar/30/2008 11:27 AM PST
I have moved into a home that used to belong to avid gardeners! The house and yard was a complete vegetable and flower garden. I have 60 years worth of bulbs and rhizomes to take care of! I have two beautifully matched Bradford Pear trees that need to be trimmed and a patch of catmint that has taken over a flower bed and traveling into my neighbor's yard. I need SSSOOOO much advice about trimming trees and killing mint. Or starting a catnip business because I think the plants are probably going to win.He he he. Does anyone know why an azalea would have been planted in the shade? All advice will be welcomed, bad advice will be learned from and good advice will be cherished... Thank you! Amanda |
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Posted: Mar/30/2008 11:54 AM PST
Welcome, Amanda, I have all my azaleas planted in the shade, they seem to do better there. But I am sure there is someone here that has a lot more experience than myself. John |
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Posted: Mar/30/2008 11:58 AM PST
Down here in SC that's where we have to put them. They sure couldn't take our relentless sun. As to mint, I don't know about catmint, but I have runaway mint here as well. I just pull it up. At least it's an olfactory pleasure to do. |
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Posted: Mar/30/2008 12:05 PM PST
Welcome Amanda! I was a great fan of azaleas long before I began noticing them in people's gardens. They grow wild all over the mountains in my area. They are happiest where they can get just a little bit of sun. A spot where a tree fell leaving a little hole in the forest, or right at the boundary of a dense thicket and a trail. If you have a profusion of mint, you must have a profusion of moist, well-drained soil, because that's what mints like. Thanks be! That portends well for your future gardening. Mints are shallow-rooted. You should be able to clear them out with a glove and a spade. Caution: don't till them. LOL! |
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Posted: Mar/30/2008 8:59 PM PST
A big welcome from a true hillbilly down here in south central Kentucky. Come on board and join a bunch of the friendliest gardeners on the planet. About your mint, down here in Kentucky, we just mix it with bourbon,sugar and crushed ice and sit back and watch the Derby.   You have a great day and happy gardening. Bill Mitchell |
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Posted: Mar/31/2008 6:44 AM PST
ROFL Bill. I'd be under the table after the first sprig. |
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Posted: Mar/31/2008 11:08 AM PST
Welcome to GG Amanda...Waving a hand from Michigan way. |
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Posted: Apr/03/2008 4:35 AM PST
Hello from WI, and welcome to GG, Amanda! I took a look at your profile, and had to laugh at your "randomly reoccurring vegetables"...sounds like what I stumbled into, except not as old. Our house was built in 1990, and has a perennial bed in front, two apple trees, and a peach tree out back. Add in the veggie garden with its own "reseeding" tomatoes, and I feel your pain! Hey, if you have the technology, take a few pictures of what you're trying to manage, and we'll be sure to chime in with our two cents worth. Here, I have to seriously devote every other year to just maintaining the perennial gardens, and end up turning the veggies over to my teenage son, who is still interested in getting dirty, at least for now.... Thanks for joining us, feel free to dig around some!  Oh, about the mint! It usually has killer runner roots, that's how it spreads so quickly, much like the dreaded crabgrass. I'd probably pull up as much as you need to, but make sure to establish some sort of barrier afterward, and then just keep pulling up whatever outgrows it's border. I did plant some mint in our garden last year, but planted it inside the pot, with the bottom cut off. My mom said as long as it can't reach out sideways, it really doesn't grow down very far... Just my two cents worth, or you could become the "mint lady," and sell it at the local farmer's market!  Mint juleps do sound good, as well... 
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Posted: Apr/03/2008 1:37 PM PST
Hello Amanda. My azaleas love some shade. Oh yeah, funny thing about mint...... I did that same thing..TO MYSELF!!!!! I planted some in a bed last year after reading not to do it. Oh well, looks like I will be pulling it all summer too. |
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