Vines and Climbers: Recycling your Wisteria "whips"!, 2 by SabraKhan

SabraKhan wrote:
Bonnie,
Yes the soil is great here, especially for perennials. I do have to incorporate some sand in part of my herb garden to please certain plants like my lavender, agastache, rosemary and thyme. I guess it's the Autumn leaves that compost over Winter that keep the soil so great. The weeds however also love the rich soil and if not checked regularly they will overtake the whole garden. It's been mostly Bittersweet vine and Virginia creeper but last Fall (through much hard labor) I managed to finally irradicate most of them from my beds. This year it's some sort of Stachys that's trying to take a stronghold and is popping up everywhere, even sporatically in the lawn. From a distance it looks like creeping phlox, a mass of rosy-lavender close to the ground.