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What can I plant to smother a Euphorbia?
We inherited a Euphorbia on a small narrow slope between the main path to the front door and the patio, wrong plant in the wrong place now creeping through the adjacent lawn and cracks on path. With two young children with sensitive skin it needs gone. I've tried hacking it several times, digging it out (less successful as so little soil can be disturbed without destabilising the slope) and in desperation with much angst resorted to roundup. Shoots are now showing again, I'm sure if I wanted it there it would have died years ago!!
I've concluded it needs depriving of all light with a thick mat for a few weeks and then before it can revive itself get a load of tough but less inappropriate plants in to smother it and create a more attractive year round bank around one of the most seen and used areas of the garden with some wildlife benefit. Was thinking heathers then debated Hebe and Hypericum both for pollinator joy, I know most people are actually trying to grow stuff here but wondered if anyone else had been through similar and found an effective situation?
I've concluded it needs depriving of all light with a thick mat for a few weeks and then before it can revive itself get a load of tough but less inappropriate plants in to smother it and create a more attractive year round bank around one of the most seen and used areas of the garden with some wildlife benefit. Was thinking heathers then debated Hebe and Hypericum both for pollinator joy, I know most people are actually trying to grow stuff here but wondered if anyone else had been through similar and found an effective situation?
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If it's any comfort, they're not particularly long-lived plants.