That's the way my beds are getting Neal so full they have to survive on their own and now the weeds! All of this rain has made it impossible to keep up with them I go around digging weeds around the plants I had them all gone before all of this rain started so now it doesn't even look like I touched the garden earlier I can't keep up with them even when I'm planting now I have to dig weeds to make a spot for the perennials
Jo Ann may be right your ground might be too fertile Neal or maybe not enough moisture? I almost lost a bee balm in the field because I didn't water it last year had no idea they like moisture until I read it last winter I thought they were drought tolerant plants they have to be to be in the field so I need to move them or maybe it was just that one cause it died off from no water never did see it bloom it was the wild one too wild bergamot but it came back for more abuse this year and I still haven't moved it
Here is another favorite of mine:
http://www.mobot.org/gardening...
But for some reason I lost it last year too it still isn't greening up I'm just sick it was an established plant I had had it for at least three years
I have a Tiger Eye Sumac right next to it and it's doing fine with one baby next to it this year
