Choosing the right plant - advice please. - Page 3

cwilk · #21 (**permalink**) 27-11-2008, 08:19 AM

How about creeping periwinkle? Is the only thing apart from ivy thay survives under our leylandii hedge. Not sure its native though. Creeping jenny might work too.

Hedge Witch · #22 (**permalink**) 27-11-2008, 01:02 PM

Hi there - good suggestion - sounds like the sort of tough cookie I'm looking for! The nativeness is secondary to the importance of my froglets surviving that tricky transition.

Susie · #23 (**permalink**) 27-11-2008, 06:42 PM

Don't get creeping jenny!!!

I knew I shouldn't get this and put it around my pond but I did it anyway (does a fool ever learn?) as I had lots of space to fill and I thought I could control it. IDIOT!!! In less than two years it is rampaging all over the place and I have to pull it out in clumps to try and control it.

If you do decide you want creeping jenny and you can get to Sussex you can have as much as you want for free, Hedgewitch

Mind you, I was warned not to put ground ivy in the garden too but I saw bees feeding on it and though "ooooh, want some of that for my bumbles!" now I am pulling it out of the lawn and all over the place ... grumble, grumble, meh.

Hedge Witch · #24 (**permalink**) 27-11-2008, 07:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Susie

Mind you, I was warned not to put ground ivy in the garden too but I saw bees feeding on it and though "ooooh, want some of that for my bumbles!" now I am pulling it out of the lawn and all over the place ... grumble, grumble, meh.

Hee hee hee

- you never learn.