One trouble about gardening is planting without knowing the characteristics of the plant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I fell in love at first sight and bought this \u201cbeautiful\u201d tiny plant with attractive neon green leaves a year ago and planted it on the ground. I was happy with it all spring and summer until I noticed it was spreading and had extending runners. Once the runners touch the ground, it roots and form another plant. It\u2019s spreading!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\nSo I removed it from the ground and discovered that the roots had already spread. I dug them out and moved some in the pot.<\/p>\n\n\n\nNow, it\u2019s spring, I noticed that it\u2019s back growing profusely. It\u2019s scary! Even though it\u2019s a beautiful plant but too much and too many of them spreading and invading other plants is a terrible sight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\nI had a similar experience with mint. When we moved in our house, the garden was bare. My friend, a gorgeous Japanese lady, gifted me a container garden with beautiful flowers for our front door and a few cuttings of mint to plant in the ground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\nAfter a few months, those innocent mint cuttings turned into a colony! Although they smell awesome, they are choking my roses and they started sprouting all over the space. I uprooted them and moved some of it to the rocky and not very favorable side of the garden for plants to grow. And guess what. It made a colony there again despite the condition. I had to uproot them and contain them in a pot.<\/p>\n\n\n\nNow, I still see them sprung from the ground from time to time and I just uproot them right away.<\/p>\n\n\n\nWith this \u201cbeautiful\u201d neon-green colored plant, which I found out to be ground ivy\/creeping Charlie, also called grecoma in Japan, the trouble of digging them out has just began. But it looks like I can\u2019t stop it from spreading since it has spread to areas I can hardly reach :-(.<\/p>\n\n\n\nOh, well. I don\u2019t know what to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One trouble about gardening is planting without knowing the characteristics of the plant. I fell in love at first sight and bought this \u201cbeautiful\u201d tiny plant with attractive neon green leaves a year ago and planted it on the ground. I was happy with it all spring and summer until I noticed it was spreading […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pregnancy-journey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maryanila.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maryanila.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maryanila.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maryanila.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maryanila.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maryanila.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maryanila.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maryanila.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maryanila.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
So I removed it from the ground and discovered that the roots had already spread. I dug them out and moved some in the pot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now, it\u2019s spring, I noticed that it\u2019s back growing profusely. It\u2019s scary! Even though it\u2019s a beautiful plant but too much and too many of them spreading and invading other plants is a terrible sight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\nI had a similar experience with mint. When we moved in our house, the garden was bare. My friend, a gorgeous Japanese lady, gifted me a container garden with beautiful flowers for our front door and a few cuttings of mint to plant in the ground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\nAfter a few months, those innocent mint cuttings turned into a colony! Although they smell awesome, they are choking my roses and they started sprouting all over the space. I uprooted them and moved some of it to the rocky and not very favorable side of the garden for plants to grow. And guess what. It made a colony there again despite the condition. I had to uproot them and contain them in a pot.<\/p>\n\n\n\nNow, I still see them sprung from the ground from time to time and I just uproot them right away.<\/p>\n\n\n\nWith this \u201cbeautiful\u201d neon-green colored plant, which I found out to be ground ivy\/creeping Charlie, also called grecoma in Japan, the trouble of digging them out has just began. But it looks like I can\u2019t stop it from spreading since it has spread to areas I can hardly reach :-(.<\/p>\n\n\n\nOh, well. I don\u2019t know what to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One trouble about gardening is planting without knowing the characteristics of the plant. I fell in love at first sight and bought this \u201cbeautiful\u201d tiny plant with attractive neon green leaves a year ago and planted it on the ground. I was happy with it all spring and summer until I noticed it was spreading […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pregnancy-journey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maryanila.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maryanila.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maryanila.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maryanila.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maryanila.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maryanila.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maryanila.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maryanila.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maryanila.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
I had a similar experience with mint. When we moved in our house, the garden was bare. My friend, a gorgeous Japanese lady, gifted me a container garden with beautiful flowers for our front door and a few cuttings of mint to plant in the ground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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After a few months, those innocent mint cuttings turned into a colony! Although they smell awesome, they are choking my roses and they started sprouting all over the space. I uprooted them and moved some of it to the rocky and not very favorable side of the garden for plants to grow. And guess what. It made a colony there again despite the condition. I had to uproot them and contain them in a pot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now, I still see them sprung from the ground from time to time and I just uproot them right away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
With this \u201cbeautiful\u201d neon-green colored plant, which I found out to be ground ivy\/creeping Charlie, also called grecoma in Japan, the trouble of digging them out has just began. But it looks like I can\u2019t stop it from spreading since it has spread to areas I can hardly reach :-(.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Oh, well. I don\u2019t know what to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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