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Janice Taylor's avatar

Wonderful! I live in a subdivision but thank goodness there is no HOA. My back yard is one big experiment!

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Michael & Michelle Styers's avatar

I’d love to buy some Lippa! Looking for lizards tail

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Janice Taylor's avatar

Now searching for frog fruit and a tiny swimming pool!

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Jenks Farmer's avatar

ill have it soon.

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Liane S's avatar

When I created a rock garden on the bottom of part of the driveway, I interrupted the flow of water to a drain at the low point. The consequence was some standing water at the front of the rock garden. I learned to elevate my pots to keep them out of the water, and it was not long before I discovered, I had created a toad habitat. Sometimes, when I am gardening, I surprise them and other times they surprise me. In either case, there is some small amount of jumping involved!

I remember hearing about frog fruit as a great native groundcover from Patrick McMillan of Juniper Level Gardens at a talk and thinking it is actually very cool looking. I have held off because it might swallow up too much space as an aggressive plant and frankly I have yet to see one at any nursery (and I go all over). If I do find it (and I now have a localish lead) I will definitely put a patch in amongst some disturbed soil where the deer have decimated the small, variegated hostas that I no longer even care about. I can find no information about why this plant has frog as part of one of its common names, however. But it is easy to imagine them hiding amongst the plant. Thanks for this delightful profile, Jenks.

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Jenks Farmer's avatar

We have carried it for years but are currently sold out. NatureScapes Beaufort may have it now. I have grown it as turf and as a hanging basket plant! It's aggressive but it's really easy to pull and control. I've grown it in a 'meadow' garden where it creeps out of backing asphalt and doesn't skip a beat. And I don't know either about its name!

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Janisse Ray's avatar

I love getting info and wisdom from a garden disruptor.

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Debra Strange's avatar

I have loved toads since I was a barefoot little girl. Tom and his brother made a temporary "toadaterrium" when they were wee boys. I still smile whenever these guys show up and when I hear them squealing. Summer brings all our herp friends. Anoles, salamanders, toads, at least 5 frog varieties and all the small snakes. Sometimes a big one. Love them all!

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