wildflowers and weeds (was Re: Eggcorn?)

[Alice Faber]

Peter A. McGraw wrote:
> Oh noooo!!!
>
> So THAT'S what I planted in my garden a couple of years ago, thinking it
> was an attractive little shrub (the foliage is pretty, and it even has a
> pretty blossom).  Last year it unmasked itself as a ground cover, and this
> year I'm realizing I have a battle on my hands like the one I already have
> elsewhere with that creeper that has blossoms like periwinkle but bigger
> leaves and another name (which I can never remember).  I was hoping I could
> at least contain it to this small patch, but this exchange tells me that
> cold-blooded mass murder is probably going to be the only solution.

By the latter, perhaps you mean vinca/myrtle, which I planted a few
years ago in an isolated corner of my yard in the as-yet unrealized hope
that it *would* take over.


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