I have several Gaura (I think the common name is Whirling Butterflies) that I enjoy all summer long. They reseeded lightly in the garden, including quite a few in the Hell Strip. The Hell Strip is a bit too narrow to support the Gaura and I decided to try and move them. Since they reseeded many of these were close to other plants I wanted to keep so I knew I'd be challenged to get a big enough root ball but I tried.
Sure enough almost immediately after i transplanted them the top growth died off on all of them.
Damn.
I decided to leave them where they were so any seeds would drop into the area I wanted new plants.
Good thing I was
Hahahahaa! :)
ReplyDeleteI didn't know that Gaura would re-seed. I'll bet I've been yanking out perfectly good plants for the past 2 springs. I try my best to never remove anything green until I know exactly what it is but I obviously have to do better. I'll watch for seedlings next spring! Lazy gardening is the best kind.
ReplyDeletePam, I'm with you there. I never remove a plant unless I can identify it. The Gaura seedlings do remind me of another weed (I forget the name right now) but it doesn't take long before they become identifiable. Fortunately they are a well behaved (so far) reseeder. I only get a few new plants each year.
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