bussete1's Blog

It's been a tough winter.  My bulbs are up in the front garden, and I'm thinking ahead to when the bulbs die down for the summer and I have a weed-infested mess.  I found someone in the area who has 5 kinds of mint, ready and willing to give me a few swatches of each.  Since mint is so invasive, I'm contemplating puting it down as a ground cover in my bulb garden.  It's completely hemmed in by cement, so I shouldn't have to worry too much about it taking over the lawn.

We get a packet of seeds every year from the water company.  This year it's Purple Coneflower.  Maybe I could plant those in the front bulb garden, too.  I'm going to go into the community section and see if it would be wise to have mint and coneflowers in the same garden.  Coneflowers are much taller, so they should be able to still get the sunlight they need.  The question is, would the mint choke out the coneflowers through the root system?