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Apr 12, 2022
2 minutes
Plants to combat ground elder
QI can’t seem to rid a border of ground elder by digging it out, as it returns from around the base of shrubs and from under a fence. What large-leaved plants will shade it out?
Teresa Birchill, Longford, Gloucester
The white flower umbels of ground) fills the soil beneath its leaves with a spaghetti-like mass of underground rhizomes. Not for nothing is it also called ‘devil’s guts’.
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