Texas Gardening: okay, about this oleander..., 1 by htop

htop wrote:
Ann, I would advise you to not plant the tall nandina !!!! They are beautiful, but spread by underground runners and seeds. I have to troll for seedlings all the time so that I am able to pull them up easily. I have even resorted to cutting off the beautiful red berries so that they do not drop to the ground. It is a real job to get the runners up especialy when they are coming up near other plants that you do not want to destroy. I have 3 sweet olive that I adore. They have bloomed on and off throughout the past year. Mine are trees because I never pruned them except for taking off the lower branches. They grew fairly fast when the area in which they are planted had more sun.

The photo is somewhat deceptive. They cover a wider area than as depicted from the angle at which I took the photo.