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GROUND COVER Shady Sandy Area??

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I do very well with English Ivy.  The area is damp and it grows like crazy, looks great and keeps the weeds down.

Ivy is prime rat territory.  It’s just the right height to give them safe runways.  When it climbs up buildings, it gives the rats an easy safe way to climb up to windows.  When it climbs up trees, it gives the rats an easy safe way to climb the tree to jump onto the house.  It also kills the trees before long.  My dog just loves me to take her to places with ivy–all those great rodent smells and rustles!  Yum!  (In most US climates, it’s also a devastating weed that kills anything nearby, from meadows through mature forests.  In the pacific NW, it’s only industry lobbying that has kept it legal.) — Pacific Northwest Wildlife Gardening:   <http://www.tardigrade.org/natives/ Senders of bulk email to my account agree to pay me a $500 handling fee.

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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – I do very well with English Ivy.  The area is damp and it grows like crazy, looks great and keeps the weeds down. Ivy is prime rat territory.  It’s just the right height to give them safe runways.  When it climbs up buildings, it gives the rats an easy safe way to climb up to windows.  When it climbs up trees, it gives the rats an easy safe way to climb the tree to jump onto the house.  It also kills the trees before long.  My dog just loves me to take her to places with ivy–all those great rodent smells and rustles!  Yum!  (In most US climates, it’s also a devastating weed that kills anything nearby, from meadows through mature forests.  In the pacific NW, it’s only industry lobbying that has kept it legal.) —

5 I hate to admit it, but you are about right… I planted ivy around the north side of the house under the holly… bad..bad bad bad!!!… I also planted that stuff you see in all the commercial beds..name is alluding me.. like Japanese spurge or …has little dark green shiny leaves, travels above and underground, climbs trees climbs walls covers rocks… it looka really pretty and makes a place look comfortable and settled…but…Now I am pulling it up as much as I can. UNLESS you have a grounds keeper who can come by regularly and edge it and clip it like the bank has, it is best to forget about it. The Ivy colleges have grounds keepers to take care of all that mess…. I DON’T … my wrists are swollen from digging and pulling day before yesterday and the day before that. — Leona http://www.geocities.com/tvksi Mitakuye Oyasin…We are all related…We are all children of Mother Earth. Before you buy.

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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – I don’t know if this applies, but recently there was an article in the paper here in Austin saying that mosquitoes love to nest in the moist areas under the ivy stands.  Since a trailer park is so tight, maybe that is not a good idea. Damn – that’s where they are coming from! I have actually had to water the ivy in this drought and could not figure out how it could be so dry and still have mosquitos. The little beggers are coming from the ivy! Thanks! (though I guess there is nothing I can do about it unless I let the ivy die…) Sterling change aol to mindspring in reply

How weird, I actually read something in the paper which was accurate! Great Austin Statesman Newspaper!  Yes, is appears there is enough surface water under the foliage and stolons of the ivy to provide enough for mosquitoes to hatch out their larva.  I don’t know, but you could try smashing up some Bt mosquito dunks and sprinkling them around under the ivy?  Maybe the larvae will eat it and die out. V http://www.freetibet.org

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I have the Aegopodium podograria in a shade bed in the back.  Actually, if I used it en masse (was that correct French, don’t want to make THAT mistake! ) in the front shade beds…along the side of the house, in example.  I really want hydrangea there, but who knows if I will ever find that many oakleaf hydrangea in one year. V – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -Bishops weed or Snow-on-the-Mountain (I’ve seen Aegopodium Podograria variegata used as the latin for both of these common names). It does great in shade, spreads quickly, and is inexpensive. Scott R Any suggestion for low groundcover instead of grass This is for a small are in a trailer park I need low maintenance Thanks Roger in Sault Ste. Marie at the Hub of the Great Lakes

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Any suggestion for low groundcover instead of grass This is for a small are in a trailer park I need low maintenance Thanks Roger in Sault Ste. Marie at the Hub of the Great Lakes

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I do very well with English Ivy.  The area is damp and it grows like crazy, looks great and keeps the weeds down. Joan – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Any suggestion for low groundcover instead of grass This is for a small are in a trailer park I need low maintenance Thanks Roger in Sault Ste. Marie at the Hub of the Great Lakes

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I don’t know if this applies, but recently there was an article in the paper here in Austin saying that mosquitoes love to nest in the moist areas under the ivy stands.  Since a trailer park is so tight, maybe that is not a good idea. I’m also looking for a ground cover for dry shade, but for my house in Austin. I’m looking at ajuga, liriope, ophiopogon and a variegated pachysandra…if I can find it. I do very well with English Ivy.  The area is damp and it grows like crazy, looks great and keeps the weeds down. Joan Any suggestion for low groundcover instead of grass This is for a small are in a trailer park I need low maintenance Thanks Roger in Sault Ste. Marie at the Hub of the Great Lakes

http://www.freetibet.org

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I don’t know if this applies, but recently there was an article in the paper here in Austin saying that mosquitoes love to nest in the moist areas under the ivy stands.  Since a trailer park is so tight, maybe that is not a good idea.

Damn – that’s where they are coming from! I have actually had to water the ivy in this drought and could not figure out how it could be so dry and still have mosquitos. The little beggers are coming from the ivy! Thanks! (though I guess there is nothing I can do about it unless I let the ivy die…) Sterling change aol to mindspring in reply

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Bishops weed or Snow-on-the-Mountain (I’ve seen Aegopodium Podograria variegata used as the latin for both of these common names). It does great in shade, spreads quickly, and is inexpensive. Scott R – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Any suggestion for low groundcover instead of grass This is for a small are in a trailer park I need low maintenance Thanks Roger in Sault Ste. Marie at the Hub of the Great Lakes

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Any suggestion for low groundcover instead of grass This is for a small are in a trailer park I need low maintenance

Wet or dry?  Sun or shade? Creeping thyme [will prefer it on the dry side, needs full sun] Pachysandra [needs at least afternoon shade] Kinnikinik [full sun to part shade, dry] Chris Owens

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