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[tnh]

1. Keep track.

You know how sometimes you'll get a reminder about Thing Wanted stuck in your mental queue, and a few shopping trips later you'll be wildly oversupplied with worcestershire sauce, or paper towels, or Campbell's chicken broth? If I had to do that with something for my garden, why did it have to be Colocasia esculenta, a.k.a.

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[sdn]

ooh, you're feeling better. good.

[tnh]

Bravo! Someone's listening! That, plus a fashion for flower arrangements featuring purple loosestrife (it's very pretty) might be enough to reduce its numbers.

[kirizal]

Mugwort was an essential component in the magical system of the online RPG Asheron's Call, as well. Still is, I guess.

Strange how both games are from East Coast design teams. People here in California would design systems around the healing powers of pampas grass and oboe cane and Caulerpia taxifolia.

(Also? Oblivion eats my life and I am so very glad for it. Except I wouldn't mind having some of my life back soon, thanks.)

[redbird]

If the woo-woos start using purple loosestrife, they might get the idea of cultivating it.

[tnh]

If they try to cultivate it, they will succeed. It's an alarmingly vigorous plant.

[redbird]

This is precisely my concern--some of them might cultivate it in places where it hasn't yet invaded.

[merlinpole]

Something that preys on purple loosestrife was with malice aforethought put out into selected sprawls of purple loosestrife in Massachusetts within the past several years. Thinking about it, I think the invasive ubiquitousness of that particular invasive pest plant has dropped way down in Massachusetts since then. On the other hand, the blasted phragmites plants tower higher that the purple loosestrige ever did.

As for mugwort... perhaps soil amendments would discourage it?

In other garden neep, I have a perennial clary sage plant. I noticed that it wasn't the usual biennial form years ago, when it was still there past when biennials should have perished. Last year, which was several years later, it bloomed, and it's still come back this year. I had planted it in what at the time was the shade of a rhododendron, and these days, I have to show rhodendron bush parts away to get at/see the clary sage; the clary sage appears to be happy where it is, hiding under the rhody.

[sraun]

Re: Mugwort

You are an evil woman! I like that.

[metalfatigue0]

Er…the "woo-woos" already use mugwort. It's one of the most common ingredients in herbal remedies.
Doesn't seem to be helping, does it?

[metalfatigue0]

I'm sure it's helping; just not enough.