Aggressive Plants in garden

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Anonymous wrote:Golden ragwort, blue false indigo, violets

See, now, I would LOVE to have those spreading in my yard. I do have violets going crazy but my false indigo barely survives.

I LOVE my violets!

They are an important host plant for a specific butterfly or two. Don't hate on them. I'm putting them everywhere.

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Anonymous wrote:Juneberry bushes. Birds love the berries and poop out the seeds everywhere. The bushes are a pita to get rid of because the branches are so prickly. There are the obvious thorns, but the branches are covered with thin needles thinner than a human hair that hurt like a mo-fo when you touch them

are you talking about serviceberries/amelanchier? i don't think they have thorns or prickles. are you speaking about blackberries or wineberries maybe? i personally wish i had serviceberries everywhere, i love the berries so planted multiple plants, almost all of which were eaten to the ground by critters.

This. Serviceberries are great native plants that support a lot of wildlife. Maybe the poster above is referring to a tree that grows in pastures - I'm going to try to find the name - that has horrible thorns. I had one in my yard and we got rid of it.

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Another +1 for mint. Last time I let DH install a herb garden.

And Tree of Heaven. My neighbors have a full blown tree - I assume they think it's pretty - but those damn runners go everywhere and never die.

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Anonymous wrote:Mountain mint
Silver dollar plant
Obedient plant

I came here to say "Mountain Mint." It's awful.

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Anonymous wrote:Italian arum is the worst nightmare imaginable. Anyone with it in their yards should be severely fined.

+1. I can never get rid of it!

Oh my gosh-- I never realized that I had this. The previous owner must. have planted it. I have tried getting rid of it too, to no avail.

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Anonymous wrote:Italian arum is the worst nightmare imaginable. Anyone with it in their yards should be severely fined.

+1. I can never get rid of it!

Oh my gosh-- I never realized that I had this. The previous owner must. have planted it. I have tried getting rid of it too, to no avail.

I don’t think our owner planted ours, so maybe it just happened. Last summer I pulled up a ton of ivy and vinca to try to be more enviro friendly, and this stuff just popped up everywhere. I learned a hard lesson about not clearing things out until I have something to replace it with. There’s also a patch in my neighbor’s yard now (or maybe it was always there). I do think it’s an alien life form. I had a huge thick tarp over my dining table all winter and the stuff continued to happily growing under it in the pitch black. And that’s after we tried to kill it with chemicals.

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I feel like I spend all my gardening time trying to remove aggressive plants put in by previous owners. The worst is chameleon plant, but spiderwort and heuchera have spread everywhere. Also daylilies that don’t flower any longer, but still come up.

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Anonymous wrote:I feel like I spend all my gardening time trying to remove aggressive plants put in by previous owners. The worst is chameleon plant, but spiderwort and heuchera have spread everywhere. Also daylilies that don’t flower any longer, but still come up.

Offer the spiderwort and Heuchera in plant swap groups. People will happily dig/take them off your hands.

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Anonymous wrote:I feel like I spend all my gardening time trying to remove aggressive plants put in by previous owners. The worst is chameleon plant, but spiderwort and heuchera have spread everywhere. Also daylilies that don’t flower any longer, but still come up.

I swear if you dig it all up but forget a 1/4 inch bit of root, in three years you'll have a 5' x 5' patch of "lush" chameleon plant.

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Anonymous wrote:I feel like I spend all my gardening time trying to remove aggressive plants put in by previous owners. The worst is chameleon plant, but spiderwort and heuchera have spread everywhere. Also daylilies that don’t flower any longer, but still come up.

I swear if you dig it all up but forget a 1/4 inch bit of root, in three years you'll have a 5' x 5' patch of "lush" chameleon plant.

That's what a lot of people want - plants that thrive on neglect. Hence chameleon plant, porcelean berry vine, liriope, etc.

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Anonymous wrote:When I moved in, the prior owners had a few aggressive plants, both native and nonnative:

Nonnative:
-Mexican primrose (pink flowers)
-Goutweed (Aegopodium podagraria), also called bishop’s weed - impossible to eradicate and I have tried everything. Any piece of it left on or in the ground sprouts. It tangles with the roots of other plants and trees, so it is always there unless you rip everything out.
-Mahonia (Oregon Grape Holly) - seeds sprout easily and I am pulling seedings from the whole yard all year round. Birds spread the seeds far too, so I'll be removing this shrub.
- Ornithogalum aka Start of Bethlehem; its a small bulb that is as hard to eradicate as the wild onion grass I also can't get rid of.
- garlic chives
- red veined sorrel, spread by seed everywhere
-- lily of the valley, I like it but, ugh.

Native:
Evening primrose (yellow flowers). I was able to get rid if through simple weeding though).

Tell me your best four week secrets please. Dealing with this now.

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^best gout weed/Bishopweed secrets

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Anonymous wrote:What plants are aggressive in the garden and wish someone would've told you? I got some evening primrose and i can't seem to get rid of it.

I had to dig up the whole flower bed and sift the soil twice for root pieces to truly eradicate them.

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Anonymous wrote:Monarda and Liriope. At least the hummingbirds like Monarda. Liriope has no redeeming qualities.

I wish I could grow bee balms in my garden. They would bloom for a couple of months , then were covered by white mold...

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Anonymous wrote:Nandina.

It is toxic to animals. A waste of all those pretty red berries.