Shade Gardening: Shade Loving Shurbs, 1 by bugme

bugme wrote:
I had no idea how prolific clethras could be. We made a very large raised bed for dahlias, butterfly bushes, etc. I had some clethra that was struggling elsewhere and DH planted it for me in this bed. Since we didn't want to deal with the many weeds that grow gloriously here, we put down landscape cloth and mulched. I'm attaching pics to show the clethra. The roots have run underneath the cloth and now they're coming up everywhere! Guess I need to move them to a shadier spot and make them into a hedge. First is the "mother" plant.