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Phuopsis stylosa aka Crosswort
I have been offered some of this plant. Does anyone know it and should it it come with a warning for invasiveness?
I have a well drained sunny spot which should suit it but don't want a thug.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
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Not grown it, but there is a huge patch of it a Chirk Castle in one of their Rock gardens. I get the impression from looking at it there that it does tend to spread.
Never grown it, but reading suggests it does "spread a bit " and does not smell very pleasant. Pictures look pretty though!
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Thanks both. The spot I'm thinking of is next to the cow pasture and downwind of the rest of the garden so smell not a problem.
I like the smell, it's a bit like crown imperial bulbs and foxes.
A bit invasive, best not in a rockery where the roots can hide under stones.
Bees like it
In the sticks near Peterborough
Thanks Nut. Jo - no, it's deep pinky purple according to the pic she's shown me.
Pink, known as 'the pink stuff' to a friend whose rockery it has taken over
In the sticks near Peterborough
I have it edging a bed. It can be invasive, but I dig it out round the edges when it misbehaves.
Thanks Busy. I shall be putting it where it will be contained by a path edge so should be OK.