On Sun, 7 Mar 2021 18:12:34 -0500, Dave Smith
> wrote:

>On 2021-03-07 4:32 p.m., Boron Elgar wrote:
>> On Sun, 07 Mar 2021 12:56:49 -0700, US Janet >
>ything.
>>>
>>> Knock Out Roses are mean? I didn't know and was thinking about
>>> getting some.
>>> Janet US
>>
>>
>> I do like all the blooms, but the darn things can draw blood pretty
>> easily. I once pruned them wearing welder gloves.
>>
> What is that low lying purplish shrub/ground cover that is covered
>in thorns. When I see stuff like that growing on people's lawns I wonder
>wtf they were thinking when they allowed that invasive crap on their
>property.

I do not know what that is. Any link to a pic?
>
>
>I have an ongoing war with wild roses here. That stuff grows along the
>road allowance that runs alongside out house, but thank goodness only
>further back in the lane to the woods. I go back several times a year
>to cut it back, but the severe pruning seems to serve only to make it
>grow back even longer and denser. I think maybe this year I will attack
>it with Round up, or pour old engine oil on it.

I used to have one way by the back fence and another one tangled in
some holly up front. It took years to get rid of them. Hate the
things.