My elderly neighbors planted trumpet vines to attract hummingbirds. The neighbors long ago shuffled off their mortal coils and left me to engage in a never ending battle with the trumpet vines. The neighbors were sweet and adorable, but their legacy is a royal pain in the posterior.
My neighbor has trumpet vine on the other side of the privacy fence. It grows through the fence, over the fence, seeds all over my yard, I hate that sucker and spend a good amount of time trimming it off my side of the fence and pulling up new plants in the yard.
I love wisteria. The way it trails across my entrance, lavender drooping heavenly scented flowers. Beautiful, exotic, fragrant...and invasive quick growing. it started slow the first year, then within 3 it demolished my beautiful front porch. Ripped the latice apart, tore the brace beams out, and cut as I may, it still keeps winding its destruction. Oh, and did I mention, it attracts bees to my front door? I am badly allergic to bees. 😭 Reality intrudes on my visions. 😒
As an author of a book on Hedera, all this Hederaphobia is unjustified and scientific literature on invasiveness only applies to two basic species in their wild form, H. helix and H. hibernica - not to the hundreds of non-invasive, slow, self-branching, compact clones. Not one of the Exotic Angel stuff like you see at Home Depot could ever spread far or take over - genetically and morphologically impossible. The houseplant type material is never invasive and I have had plants 10 years old that were just 2-3 feet across. If you want beautiful variegated and cutleaf ivies one can always plant them against a tree and trim off anything going horizontal into beds.
Oh, that is hilarious! English Ivy is one of my nemeses as well; even when it was somewhat in control, it was prone to black spot and aphids...which then created an ant problem. So we moved, 😉.
Yeah ... I can't get rid of my neighbor's English ivy, lilies of the valley, burning bush, thorn berries, and nightshade that all snuck into our yard. Who pays to get any of these? As for bamboo, if it's planted in a deep pot as an accent, that can work. I do the same with raspberries. In a raised bed lined with 10mil plastic sheets.
I'm in Victoria Australia wisteria is beautiful and can be controlled. A neighbour had hers growing as a 'tree'. This was achieved by using a stake that supported the trunk and allowed the top to umbrella. Took a lot of pruning but truly a beautiful effect.
At my old house I had a wisteria, but I trained it into a tree. Looked like an umbrella. I kept it pruned and had zero issues. At this house, however the neighbors untended wisteria is constantly trying to take over our split-rail fence so my husband prunes it.
Still Mandeville. I love wisteria too, but it's not the idea of having one in a pot. Wisteria seeds are dispersed throughout forests and competes and overgrows over trees, killing them. Forsythe Wildlife Natural Area in New Jersey is where I was convinced that it truly is an invasive.
I have a terrible terrible problem with wisteria! It came over from a neighbor's yard and has now killed a group of Leyland cypress trees and it's threatening to keep going down the line. I cannot kill it. It comes up from the ground and it travels over in the tree crown.
Your garden is stunning 💗 in Rhode Island, that one thing never to plant would be our state flower, the violet! I inherited them and 30 years later, I have never eradicated them. It's impossible. However, I have recently heard they are edible, so at least I wouldn't starve. ☺️
In parts of South New Jersey there is a purple wisteria that had escaped from gardens & u can see it on poles & fences & tall trees from the highways when driving thru. I would also put any honeysuckle vine on that list. And Bittersweet vine too!!!! Black eyed Susans & daisies & Asian plants & butterfly bushes & some grasses too.
Omg! Bought a house that had a wisteria and after 20 years, I took it out. So much work with little reward. To keep under control, I was pruning every week and consequently, removing buds in the process. Removing roots is a nightmare. Felt bad while removing it, but after two weeks, I am ecstatic it is gone, just wish I had done it 19 years ago!
I would suggests adding rose of sharon to the Black List of plants. It seeds itself very efficiently. We had some coming up in the privet hedge at our old house, and we could never get rid of it permanently. More grew back every season. The roots are impossible to pull out. It needs to be dug out (very difficult if you are trying to not damage the plants growing around it ). Also, Bradford pear trees (and any sort of ornamental pear tree that is a hybrid of a pear tree native to Asia) are very invasive in suburban neighborhoods here in eastern PA. The birds spread the seed to the point that fallow farm field can be taken over by these invasive pear trees within three years.
Totally agree about the trumpet vine. If you have trumpet vine, keep it away from the house. I've seen it take root and grow in cracks of an old Victorian house.
Lynn R. I live in drought ridden Texas panhandle. I have beautiful Virginia Creeper covered fences. Yes, it takes a little work to keep it contained, but in our brown countryside, its refreshing to see the green. I also have Trumpet Vine and because we have so little rainfall, it isn't a problem. Same with my Wisteria, so little rainfall that its easy to keep in check. I'm a vine lover!
I have Virginia creeper growing over my fence just like yours. Before I regard it as a weed, but now I've come to appreciate it. It hides my ugly fence and it becomes a beautiful red in the autumn. I give it a haircut once a month. I'd like to think of my flowers as performers on stage with Virginia creeper as the curtains.
Well-said. It's a magnificent plant. I saw some at a local nursery a couple of years ago. You are inspiring me to take another look there. We're in AZ, and it might be best to plant it in the fall...?
I live in San Francisco. The guy next door has a little forest of it in his small yard with pink/purple bouginvilla, mixed in. It is absolutely gorgeous!!!!!! When the sun is rising and setting, the colors are STUNNING!!!!! 😉😉💖💜💕But he does have to have someone come in and thin it.
Bougainvillea, even though it can become GINORMOUS, at least it can take a good hard trimming every year to keep control over it. I once lived in a house where a previous owner planted bougainvillea in a 2.5' deep strip of dirt between the driveway and house. We could not use the driveway after mid June. That winter, we had a hard frost and it really burnt the plant. So, late winter, I pruned it down to 18" tall. The neighbors came over and yelled at me and told me I was killing the plant they waited to see bloom every spring. I told them about how badly it had been frost burnt and how I fully intended to use my driveway now. I also said I thought it would be fine considering it can grow upwards of a foot a week in the summer. Well, come spring and after the plant had grown to about 4' tall, they came over saying I had ruined the plant as it had no blooms that year. I suggested they be more patient as the blooms come on the tips of the shoots and the shoots had to be a certain age before they would bloom. Sure enough, in another couple of weeks, it started blooming. By the end of August, it had grown so tall, it went over the edge of my extra tall roof. That winter I pruned it again but only to about 4' tall with no complaints from the neighbors.
Vinca is a pretty flowing plant many colors but gets into everything and is hard to get rid of and also has bitter smelling leaves and flowers. Never plant vinca in ground .plant in containers...
English Ivy is definitely on that list. Here in Georgia, there is so much kudzu that was planted in the 1930s for erosion control. They finally realized what a problem it was, but it was too late. The south is still having to deal with it nearly 100 years later.
Years ago when I first read about kudzu, i thought it sounded like a great idea to cover a railing. Fortunately my husband caught me. He shared with me that it was a terrible idea and explained why. Thank G-d!!
@@mountaingirl4252 Oh my gosh! When we first moved to Georgia ('90) I asked what that was that looked like it was devouring massive pine trees. It was kudzu! We were shown a picture of the same exact place 2 yrs before. It showed people removing a VERY small patch of the horrible blight now in Georgia and using a back hoe to dig up all around the area, hoping to rid the woods of Kudzu. Unfortunately, 2 yrs after that picture was taken, the entire area was smoothered by Kudzu! 3 yrs later many of the beautiful pines had fallen under the weight and suffocation caused by that horrendous vine.
I agree with all of your list and have fought them all. I do grow a clumping bamboo and it is very controllable in a home garden, but if in doubt don't grow it. I harvest the seed pods from my trumpet vine before they pop open and that has helped a bunch. I live in a desert climate and can grow ivy, vinca major and chameleon plant and let intense sun and heat control them, but in Pacific NW they are huge problems. Redbuds are another free seeding tree that require a lot of work.
I bought a house with the bamboo, Virginia creeper, and trumpet vine growing vigorously in my back yard. It's been 4 years of trying to get the bamboo under control. The Virginia creeper is like you said more easily controlled. I cut back the trumpet vine to 1 stalk and will be trying to train and control it. I wish people would think before they plant something because they like the look of it.
A tip for bamboo if you're opposed to herbicide (my personal recommendation) is to hack the bamboo shoots down, wait for them to shoot again (they can go from stump to full height in a matter of days) and then take off all the vertical growth just as it puts out the horizontal leaf stalks. This process must be repeated over and over until it eventually runs out of energy stores in the root and dies, you've basically got to stop it going into leaf because those leaves feed the root and recoup the energy lost by shooting. It's a pretty arduous task hence why I recommend herbicide as a primary means of control
I was at Lowe’s this week and a young couple was buying rosemary plants. Lots of them. About 20 plants. I asked them what they ere going to do with all that rosemary. “We just love to cook with rosemary. I just love it!” I suggested that the might not need that many plants and to put the in a large pot. I told them i have one I have had for at least 15 years and it is huge. They declined my suggestion and said the needed that many. I reminded myself of how many times I have gone my own way in the garden. And maybe one day I will be able to keep my suggestions to myself!!! 😜
The neighbor at my old house had Boston ivy on a fence between our yards. It came over, under, and between the slats. It was on the ground in my flower bed also. She never trimmed it. I was glad to finally move.
In the uk we prune our wisteria every year. To a tight framework- actually you prune twice a year in the winter/early spring. Very easy. No big deal really. You certainly never just let it grow wild like that.
its not what you can see is the problem its what is going on under the ground take it from someone who has spent days digging up way war tendrils it even penetrated the landscape fabric that i had laid in the vain hope of controlling its expansion!
lol I can promise, though it may be easy to tame in the UK, it is NOT in Northeast Texas. I’ve seen it take over with experienced gardeners throwing everything they know at it. It takes down strong fences with its weight. Tears down power lines. Crosses roads. I love seeing it in bloom…but once it gets going, there’s just no stopping it.
I planted a native wisteria 6 or 7 years ago and last summer was the first sign of any real growth. My garden is not close to any neighbor so I don’t have that concern. Of course, at the rate it’s growing, I will be planted before it flowers.
I was scared of peppermint, but I pulled a lot out before fall and dried it for tea all winter. It has spread everywhere in the small patch but easy enough to pull back to tidy.🙏
I am clueless as to how Virginia Creeper ended up growing in my garden. Probably from a bird dropping a seed because my neighbors don't have it growing. It grows along the my bedroom windows and I love the draping it does and the birds build their nest in it. The branches also make great wreath forms because of their flexibility. I have free wreaths to decorate with for the holidays!🤗
I have English ivy, trumpet vine, wisteria and ruellia that people are all against and I don't personally have a problem with them. We keep them trimmed back responsibly and that makes all the difference. Your garden is lovely.
Agreed. I grew up along the Little Calumet River in Chicago. My parents also had a lovely garden like this lady's. As I got older, I added vegetables and other flowers. The yard was lovingly tended; trees included Maple, Bur Oak, Cottonwood, Honeylocust, Spruce, Elm, Willow, Birch, Plum, Cherry and Ash. Vines included Wild Grape and Virginia Creeper. They had no "pests" to speak of, though the Willows had aphids, and we would never put any of our plants on a "don't plant" list, unless one had a very small property.
Thank you, much appreciated from this young gardener. Summary; 1.Bamboo 2. Wisteria 3. Virginia Creeper 4. Trumpet Vine 5. Know your own geography/climate plant issues
I think differentiating running bamboo from clumping is important. I've grown the slower growing, clumping varieties (fargesia rufa, robusta, nitida) on our fence lines for 20 years without it invading the neighbor's gardens. And it's gorgeous. I do have running varieties but those have to stay in pots.
I was just going to make that point. Clumping bamboo is wonderful, I planted timber bamboo, it was 3 inches across at the base and 30 feet tall. Running bamboo can pop up 10 feet away from the parent plant and can push itself up through asphalt, you will need to contain it with a hard plastic barrier at least three feet down.
Yup if you love bamboo but don't like the outta control nature of it clumping bamboo is the way to go. It's very well behaved but in my opinion not as attractive. I like the variegated runners like Alphonse Carr lol if that's spelled right, and others like the green and white pygmy. I set lose LOL 4 different runners on my property and have made a fairly successful video called "the monsters called the running bamboo" that shows my ignorance, hatred, and unconditional love of these crazy plants. I was out cutting bamboo outta my neighbors yard earlier questioning why I ever planted it.....but I still love it cuz there's nothing quite like it! Maybe God will bless me and my neighbors by the bamboo blooming before I get to old to control it.🤞🤞🤞🤞🙏🙏🙏🙏
I bought my running bamboo from my local garden center. I had no idea there was a differnce and the person at the center should've warned me. I almost had a disaster. I lined a hole I dug with pool liner but the bamboo simply went over it and re-established and began invading my lawn...I finally killed it all off..clumping sounds like the way to go..
So right about the trumpet vine! We have eradicated it from almost everywhere in the yard but we left it run amok in the black walnut trees. The flowers of the vine reach up the trees at least 30 feet and look magnificent in bloom. People stop and ask what kind of tree it is that has such big orange blooms. The hummers really enjoy it.
Hi Dot, I am obsessed with trumpet vine and finally managed to propagate it from seeds and stems cuttings. Now I watched this video and am concerned that it will overtake my little home destroy it and strangle the trees I am so upset what to do?
Important video. I planted a wisteria vine and it started to destroy my fence. I immediately had it removed. I planted 'clumping' bamboo as a privacy screen and it's totally fine. Must be CLUMPING bamboo. The only thing I don't like about it are the tiny leaves that it drops. It's been in my garden for over 10 years and has only spread a few feet and it's easy to cut the new stems because they pop up next to the original plant instead of sending out shoots everywhere.
Oh my Linda, i am sooo with You with that bamboo! Had to learn that lesson on my own, i planted one like about 15 years ago and all went fine the first lets say three years. But then i started finding little bamboo plants like even five or ten meters away and finally radically tried to dig the whole thing out which was a huuuuge amount of work. Still finding rests of it now and then and if i´d not be after it the bamboo propably still would take over the garden completely in some years...
Haha , Plant Wisteria, English Ivy over the biggest cities on this planet. That would change "klimate-change". Imagine the whole city covered in those plants.
Yes! Carolina Jasmine...was so pretty climbing my wrought iron trellis until it dragged it down. Last year I took out the vine and the trellis and thought it was all gone, wrong. Evidently the root is traveling under my stone patio because I found it climbing my blueberry bushes this year. 😳 Also, Cypress Vine! I planted it to climb over the support of a swing. I bet I pulled out hundreds of little starts popping up all over my gravel and in the grass around the swing. Grrrr. 🤪 I’m in zone 8a, Georgia. Love that you are helping everyone avoid the other bad ones! ❤️
I'm glad I saw this. I adore Chinese wisteria. Every spring you can ride around rural parts of Georgia with your windows down to smell the beautiful scent. And who hasn't marvelled at those beautiful images of European storefronts and cottages covered in the blossoms? This past weekend I finally bought some little starter plants. Thankfully, because of limited space and the need to be able to move them when I move, I never planned to plant them in the ground. I hope to bonsai one and plant two others in two big planters pushed up against a trellis. I'm still concerned I'll need to watch for vines attempting to creep over the pot edges, but I'm prepared for aggressive pruning if necessary. These will never go into the ground! They should really be required to put warnings on the packaging or not make these available!
I've lived in hot climates, Houston and Baltimore. In both cities I saw mature trees - oaks - into which wisteria had grown extensively. In the spring it looked as if the entire tree was in bloom. These were very old, mature wisteria but they had not damaged the mature trees. It does depend greatly on how these plants are planted and what they grow on. In years of growth, neither of these plants had spread at all to the ground around the trees.
Linda's advice is so accurate, I am a professional gardener and I earn a lot of money removing out of control bamboo and secondly ivy. This ladies advice is well worth taking on board.
I disagree strongly on the bamboo one, bamboo is a wonderplant that has been shown to be a carbon sponge 'Bamboo’s fast-growing and renewable stands sequester carbon in their biomass - at rates comparable, or even superior to, a number of tree species. The many durable products made from bamboo can also be potentially carbon-negative, because they act as locked-in carbon sinks in themselves and encourage the expansion and improved management of bamboo forests.'
Mh-hm. When I moved in to my house the previous owner thought it was a "wonderful" idea to plant bamboo in the back yard. I researched it and sure enough found out that it was a take over plant. And I left it for a bit and sure enough it was growing outward. So I took on the tedious job over the next few months of digging it up, and anytime it shot up I would dig into the root system and have to put root killer. They had also planted a couple trees next to the house, how where they not worried about the root system bothering the foundation! Well it took me a couple of years and about a thousand dollars but I was able to remove all the unpleasant plants and trees. I did whatever I could by myself, the rest I had to pay to take out.
What is you secret to removing English ivy? I am doing battle w 30% vinegar, and seems to be making a little headway. I strongly prefer natural solutions. Any ideas? Thanks in advance.
I absolutely adore my wisteria. It is very established and also very large. It scales the front of the house and branches off both left and right. So the whole front of the house is in bloom Spring/Summer. However, I needs yearly pruning as it grows so quickly. I believe the homeowners before us did a great job at training it correctly. If we let it grow higher, I believe it would grow into the roof tiles.... which wouldn’t be good.
You have to plant clumping bamboo and do it like raspberries-raised bed ONLY! ONLY plant trumpet vine and wisteria as a specimen "tree" in the middle of your lawn-gorgeous like that-otherwise yeah-forget it! There is a false Virginia creeper that has no suckers and I butcher mine every fall, but best to drape it over chain link and have it along lawn.
There must be a drain hole or the plants would die. Set the pot on bricks so there's open space between the pot and the ground. Poke under the pot a few times a year and saw off any roots that have crept into the soil. Then run like hell when the top growth takes off after bloom. The best use of Wisteria is always in someone else's yard.
I agree 100% about trumpet vine. It is a pest. One plant you don't mention is tradescantia (spiderwort.) It is an invasive plant - even grows in the cracks of the sidewalk.
I I agree with you Linda. And my advice: never plant tecoma in your garden. (Tecoma radicans - Bignonia radicans - Campsis radicans). Your garden is so beautiful! Thank you very much!
You should have mentioned that there are two different types of bamboo! The clumping bamboo is fine to plant in gardens. Running bamboo is the type you should stay away from as it is very invasive! 🌿
She should also have mentioned there are ways to contain bamboo from spreading underground. e.g. copper barriers. bamboo hates copper and will stay away from it.
I'm in New England and would add Bittersweet to that list. I made the mistake of scattering some seeds years ago for the vine and berries that are commonly used in door wreaths here. It grows and travels underground and comes up everywhere, grows on telephone poles and is seen on roadsides and growing up trees. While it is green and beautiful to look at, it is terribly invasive.
I couldn't agree more about Wysteria! My old yard had it in the yard when I bought the place and oh my lord it was on the ground and rooting everywhere
My neighbors grow dill in their backyard. This spring I spotted a group of them growing in the oddest location of my yard. I yanked them out root and all. Month later I noticed another group of dill growing opposite end of the first group spotted. This time I embraced it. We are grilling more fish this summer. Que sera sera.
So many herbs strongly evince childhood memories forme...good ones. Many I don't even use for cooking. But I cherish the aromas. I've tried for years to grow just a bit of dill. Never successfully! Shouldn't be so hard. I live near NYC. What could I be doing wrong?
@@claudiaphilippe5655 You can just toss the seeds around now in a sunny area of soil that you will not disturb. They don't need any attention at all. Then in the spring, sprinkle some more. If you sprinkle some seeds every month during the warmer months, you'll have dill from spring to freeze up. All of these 'weeds' will do their thing without much or any assistance from us. Then let a couple of plants grow to maturity. They produce huge amounts of seeds and you will never be dill-free.
My neighbor has a bamboo in her garden and I am so tired to fight it, especially because it grown in the very steep hill and I it is very dangerous to climb there. Once I fell from that hill, I am glad I haven’t broken any bone. I wish she watched your video. I was thinking about planting wisteria but after watching this I won’t. Thank you.
The important thing to know about japanese/chinese imported plants like wysteria and bamboo is that they out-perform native plants, and therefore will take over everything.
In South Florida it is the Dragon Tree. The root is large and big as a trench. You’ll need a bull dozer with digging ability. And if a thumb size fall to the ground, one month, it’s growing all over again.
I don't know how it performs in South Florida but in Sarasota (zone 9b) the worst thing you can plant is the muscadine grape. They will grow everywhere and if not controlled, you'll have vines - thick enough for Tarzan to swing on - growing all up and down your trees. They spread by underground branches and will invade every section of your property. I'm speaking from experience.
Clumping bamboo vs running bamboo. Clumping bamboo will grow out in a circle, it is controllable. Running bamboo is uncontrollable and should be against the law or code in every city.
I was thinking about planting clumping bamboo as a privacy screen, but now I’m a little nervous. Do you have any experience with graceful bamboo or Seabreeze bamboo?
I love my wisteria, however you have to seriously baby sit it and cut it back every year. If you let anything run rapid it will do what it does best and bully anything in its path. Vining plants do not play nice unless they have a good nanny. And with cutting these back just promotes growth. Good video.
I just had my husband dig up our wisteria! It was driving me crazy! We planted a pink lady slipper hydrangea in it's place! So glad that it's gone, but it took a lot of digging! Those wisteria roots are enormous!!
I have every one of those plants in my yard, and I love them. Ivy and creeper like the shade so it doesn't invade the well lighted areas. Wisteria can be pruned from time to time - and should be! Each plant adds something to the landscape and all of them are like children, they need some degree of supervision. My yard has a type of bloom in it year round and it adds a little cheer.
I rip out any Virginia creeper that rears it’s head. The neighbor has it climbing up trees so I can enjoy the autumn color without too much trouble. I started a wisteria a few years ago & it’s still limping along (too much shade, maybe this year it’ll finally grow)
@@jorgehoran1691 It takes a couple of years (depending on the soil) for the wisteria roots to become established, and then it will take off. If it has something to climb on, it will grow straight up, seeking the sunlight. In a few more years, you will need to keep it pruned, or it will take over a location.
@@leighcontella811 When the ground is soft, you can often pull it up by the roots. I don't know your soil type, but in hard clay, just cut out all the roots you can find.
I have had Virginian Creeper (Woodbine) in two woodland gardens, including my current one. Whether it's desirable to plant it or not depends on your climate, what kind of garden you have and how you care for the garden. The roots are quite shallow and very easy to pull out completely if desired. I keep it as a ground cover for the deep blue-toned green and the fine leaf shape. Unlike ivy, it clings to trees and buildings by pads that do NOT penetrate into brick, mortar, etc. Training it to run up a mature tree trunk is fine if desired. This is the plant (not ivy) you see in photos of big English estate houses.
OMG I fought Wisteria for years on the property we bought, it was so out of control, almost impossible to get rid of. It was like a monster. The feeders spread all over the yard what a nightmare. I have had to cut wisteria vines so thick it took a CHAINSAW to get through them. DON'T PLANT IT.
Sounds like you had a real problem...it was clearly an old plant which had been allowed to go native...was it against a wall? better to have cut it back severely and trained the new tendrils( feeders I think are what you call them) onto a trellis and remember the flower pinniculs...grow on 12 month old shoots so remember this and prune gently every year.
Oh my goodness me, your garden!!! It is delicious! I'm almost there with the sounds and smells. Spring is almost sprung and I can't wait to get back out into my garden. It has been such a good place for my head this last year.
Thank you for this video! I recently purchased a Chinese Wisteria sapling for my backyard. My eyes were looking at how beautiful the blooms were, and not at the difficulty, it would present. Thanks to your advice, I will plant something different.
Living in Washington, I agree with this list. I have two yards I upkeep and they both have bishops weed. The leaves are beautiful but this plant is something I try to remove every year because it chokes out other plants. # 2 on my list is Violet ground cover. This was a popular planting in my Historic district and almost home owner in the area fights it decades later. #3 is Yucca if the roots break off you get more plants durning removal which you have to dig out later. Starve this plant of water and it will eventually set out seed pods.
We grow bamboos in our garden, absolutely beautiful clump forming ones, statuesque and wonderful, we also have a splendid wisteria tree. I think our climate in the Uk allows us to grow probably a much larger range of plants. Oh we also have Virginia creeper giving us a fantastic display of autumnal colour. The wisteria on buildings in the U.K. gives a wonderful colour display in the spring. Trumpet vine struggles in my garden.
That is funny I agree with the bamboo and wisteria, but I lived in NJ and had Virginia creeper and wanted it to climb my deck but it kept dying, I also wanted trumpet vines and they would not grow either. There are many invasives like Japanese honeysuckle that are listed ast invasive but for some of us are just not.. Lovely garden thanks.
I have 8 acres and Honeysuckle and Virginia creeper have taken over our woods. I’ve been able to get rid of autumn olive but those two I cannot keep up with! I think even if I removed it 100% from our property the seeds from neighbors plants, via birds, may never stop.
HaHa !! In zone 4b, we do not have those problems since we have 5-6 months of snow and cold. Snow-on-the-mountain is a pain for us and almost impossible to remove.
Yes wisteria can be a monster! I lived in Japan a few years ago and noticed that it looks beautiful in well maintained parks and home gardens generally kept in pots and pruned nicely.
Couple varieties of fig trees do well in the desert. Once established very little maintenance. We had one fig tree producing fruits almost as big as tennis balls and sweet like jelly.
@@kimchee94112 in Australia we have a rock fig, which must source water in the rocks & exposes it's roots over & around cliffs etc. It's a desert dweller, rather special tree which probably provides food for native animals.
I second the Virginia creeper. A previous owner planted it and I can't get rid of it. Plus I am highly allergic to it. I have it somewhat contained to the neighbors property only but it keeps coming back. Plus it has killed off two trees in our yard. It was on those trees prior to us moving in.
Wow. I haven't even watched all of this yet but looked at the list of the plants you're advising against and realize I've been actively considering THREE of them! Thanks for the heads-up!
Thanks for this video very informative for me I'm a zone 7....my neighbor has a hedge of rose of Sharon. I dread the Fall... ugh the seed heads!!! The wind blows them clear across to the other side of my property and all in between😡😢
I have a couple and now when I cut them back I lay a tarp or sheet under them and dispose all the seed heads that drop! This has really saved me a lot of work by greatly reducing hand weeding.
We just purchased a home in North central Oklahoma. The yard all the way around has rose of Sharon --some 12 to 15 FEET wide and just as tall!! We're attacking it with chain saws. It is a life long work in progress.
Ivy, honeysuckle, Vining Jasmine, Virginia Creeper, mints, kudzu, mimosa, Morning Glory, onions and Tut grass are extremely invasive in our area. Bradford pears grow fast, then split once over twelve feet. I bought a trumpet vine last year but am keeping it in a pot on my deck. First sign of little starts in the yard.. it's gone.
Also that came with the property is a vine called wild grape, it makes a good hedge over the wire fence put there but needs constant pruning and maintenance
I love how wisteria looks. The developers had planted it and it didn't seem to be doing much until i saw it growing up through the porch planks. I cut it and dug it out. Quite the job.
My experience too. A couple of neighbours kept theirs and they look gorgeous. But out of a hundred hones, only 2 kept them. I wonder how many had them growing through their porch planks too?
You are so right!! I just saw a power pole completely covered in wisteria, going up and down the cables, in a house we were looking to buy. Needless to say, that put me off from buying, I do not want to deal with that!!
the vining plants aren't great for the telephone poles but honestly my eyes gravitate towards your fence and how lovely they frame it when your videos pan in that direction. I didn't know you hate them so much! You actually have the better looking view in my opinion! They overhang so nicely when you trim them. They dont' look a huge maintenance on your end for the amount of visual interest they provide in your garden scenery. Those vines make the fence not boring and standard... gives your garden a more "secret garden" appeal.
I've inherited a full crop of bamboo (and to a lesser extent wisteria) in my garden in New Zealand (fabulous temperate climate that allows even the most reluctant plant to flourish). Over one year on, the war is still waging and unfortunately, many very desirable plants are having to be forfeited because they are too deeply intertwined with the bamboo. I am determined to beat it but it will have done a great deal of damage to my body and soul in the process. Linda, you never said a truer word when exhorting your audience to NEVER EVER plant it in their garden!
For the desirable plants you can try to airlayer some branches before you remove them, that way you can plant them again after you've finished waging your war against bamboo. Since the plants wont have their old roots there shouldn't be bamboo growing from it. Just make sure you pot up the newly rooted branches until you can plant them out.
@@GardenDoodles It's such a beautiful vine. But after some research, I decided not to buy it after all 😞. I read that the roots go down 9-inches deep & even a planter cannot contain them. It really saddens me because it would look so beautiful on my fence. Thank you so much for telling me about the seeds. P.S. are you currently battling this vine?
@@flowerpower2079 They are beautiful lush vines and they look great flanking our patio (as you may have seen in our videos) but we continue to battle them and they seem to get worse every year. They weave themselves into the roots of our roses and shrubs and pop up all over the lawn! It’s probably for the best that you learned about them now and can avoid the headaches.
Good advice on Wisteria is to plant it away from anything it can "attach" onto. Plant it away from other trees, from other plants, away from the house, a wall, etc. Plant it in an open space with full sun. It will grow similar to a Lilac bush or Rose of Sharon.
They are truly beautiful, but there really isn't a way to keep them away from everything else. At least not in my zone 8 climate. The problem is the runners under the soil. I'm still battling them and the tree was removed a year ago. I had to get rid of it. It was suffocating my gardenia.
@@stacey_d I must have American wisteria plants instead of the Asian varieties… because I haven’t seen any shooters pop up. If they are popping up, they are mowed down as soon as they sprout by the lawn mower.
@@stacey_d I must have American wisteria plants instead of the Asian varieties… because I haven’t seen any shooters pop up. If they are popping up, they are mowed down as soon as they sprout by the lawn mower.
I have virginal creeper that just mysteriously appeared one day. I HATE THIS FREAKING VINE FROM HELL!!! I spend hours upon hours pulling it out of my shrubs. Good luck with the trumpet vine. You will do what IT wants you to.
@@tinamarie0701 get rid of yours too as it will damage your house foundations. Grow another one far away from the house. You can easily grow it from the seed you get from shop bought fruit. They grow like weeds. 😀
@@E-Kat thanks i have had it for over 20 years and its massive! I've been cutting it down slowly over the last few weeks... But its sandwiched between my house and my neighbors. Unfortunately it needs to go!
Oh gosh, i completely agree with you. I feel like wanna show this video to my neighbor. They plant bamboo, I mean BAMBOO like they have pandas in their home to feed with. The dried leaves flew away everywhere makes real mess at my porch and other neighbors too. A totally disaster. This been happening for almost 10 years and I have to deal with this until today 😡
Thank you so much Linda. I was planning to see if I could train a Trump vine into a hedge covering up a pink cinder block wall in Southern California. I’ve seen them done all over Orange County and LA county. But my construction manager said He detested any vining plant because of where they end up when that good gardening homeowner moves. So I think I’ll put in some nice Dodonaea Purperea and prune them into tree shapes to create the privacy we need.
Here in zone 7a , many plants that are invasive in warmer zones do very well here and are not invasive- I would call them tough and drought tolerant. My Japanese wisteria is stunning and always get compliments, as does my euphorbia groundcover. Really just depends on your climate.
Could you do a video about creeping and climbing plants that you would recommend for people who want to cover a trellis or archway? I currently have grapes going in on a large trellis off my deck that we plan on keeping in line as well as some honeysuckle. The honeysuckle we know we have to be very careful with. I want to have an arched trellis leading into my yard but don't want something over aggressive on it...
I’d love to know about clematis that are suitable for growing through a hedge! I love the look of the Apple blossom variety but I believe an evergreen is not really the best option
I've been learning about native plants, and in the native plant group I belong to, one lady said she's tried a number of native vines and has now given up on them altogether. Native plants are better, but if you really want a vine on a trellis, an annual might be better, or a climbing vegetable plant, like scarlet runner beans, purple pole beans, sweet potato, squash or cucumber, etc. Then, get rid of them at the end of the season and start again the next year. I'm going to do a teepee trellis next spring for vegetables and let my neighbor's 4-year-old daughter play inside. She's going to love it.
@@obsidiansea I've got a nice plethora of native plants in my yard. That's actually my focus, along with edible and pollinator friendly. I haven't looked into native vines, hmmm, not sure we have much of those. I'm in a mostly high desert area(but also kind of near a river in a valley), but I'll definitely take a look. If I went the annual route it would have to be non edible because the archway is directly by the road. I'd rather not eat that 😅 Gave me some ideas though, thanks 👍
So glad to have come upon this conversation! Among the five plants never to plant, nothing would get me to pull up my wisteria but it does grow underneath the the shakes in my Cedar Shake house. Not really a pronlem keeping it contained otherwise and it's never popped up anywhere else. I'm also looking to grow some trumpet vine to cover some wrought iron trellis I've bought so the neighbors can't located to my terrace.
Thank you for the information. I just bought trumpet vine. It will stay in 50 gall container. I will keep on eye on this so I can trim whenever it need to. I want to use it for privacy around the pool area.
I am stuck with pepper trees on my back fence. They are from a large park who doesn't want to do the proper maintenance and they're taking away my morning sun and send shoots all over the place, not to mention the fact that hardly anything will grow under them. Pepper berries on my sidewalks also. When I moved in the fence was lined with different colors of oleanders. I preferred that
We had the same issue with Wisteria, it grew up the utility pole and caused a horrific fire but after that fire, we learned that it's so easy to control. As soon as you notice it growing up a pole, cut it at ground level and that will stop it for a while, it only takes a minute to cut it.
Privet is pretty invasive where I live and I used to have a neighbor that embraced it. She let it grow wild all over her yard, which meant it ended up growing in my yard. White gum eucalyptus can also grow to towering heights. They really need to be maintained by arborists or they’ll topple over.
You can plant Altheas in hard. poor soil so they don't take root easily. But, they are invasive. I had about 40 seedlings from one plant, dug them up and sold them with a warning.
I was given one for mother's day long ago. It was gorgeous until the seedlings came. I finally had a garden helper remove it and I'm still finding seedlings three years later.
I like both Lilly of the valley and vinca, both considered too aggressive. I want a dense ground cover in that area so I have both there and let the, battle it out!
Mint should be on the list. I made a raised bed 2 feet by 3 feet to plant herbs in. I thought everything would be contained in the bed since the native soil underneath is really hard compact clay and rocks. I was sooooooooo wrong. I have a mint lawn now and not much else. on the positive though I planted several herbs that are invasive in the box and they all defend themselves well against each other.
My neighbors behind me planted bamboo. What a nightmare for us. The roots dig in deep and require someone with lots of strength to dig and hack them up. Thank you for making others aware. If you hire someone to landscape your yard make sure they don’t use bamboo. Our neighbors hired a landscaper and this is what they used🥺.
Bamboo hates copper. an acquaintance used copper to contain her bamboo for decades before she sold her home. And some bamboo is spreading, and other bamboo is clumping.
My elderly neighbors planted trumpet vines to attract hummingbirds. The neighbors long ago shuffled off their mortal coils and left me to engage in a never ending battle with the trumpet vines. The neighbors were sweet and adorable, but their legacy is a royal pain in the posterior.
"...their legacy is a royal pain in the posterior" Hahahaha!
My trumpet vine appears to have been a "gift" from a malicious neighbor (seriously!). Its only redeeming quality is that it does attract hummingbirds.
@@dmc826 I have a neighbor that was "gifted" Creeping Charlie. She was sold by the cute little funnel shaped purple flowers.
Not the hummingbird vine with a small red flower ?
My neighbor has trumpet vine on the other side of the privacy fence. It grows through the fence, over the fence, seeds all over my yard, I hate that sucker and spend a good amount of time trimming it off my side of the fence and pulling up new plants in the yard.
I love wisteria. The way it trails across my entrance, lavender drooping heavenly scented flowers. Beautiful, exotic, fragrant...and invasive quick growing. it started slow the first year, then within 3 it demolished my beautiful front porch. Ripped the latice apart, tore the brace beams out, and cut as I may, it still keeps winding its destruction. Oh, and did I mention, it attracts bees to my front door? I am badly allergic to bees. 😭
Reality intrudes on my visions. 😒
You’re so right. My sister asked my Dad years ago how to get rid of English Ivy. He said “Move” 😉🤣
As an author of a book on Hedera, all this Hederaphobia is unjustified and scientific literature on invasiveness only applies to two basic species in their wild form, H. helix and H. hibernica - not to the hundreds of non-invasive, slow, self-branching, compact clones. Not one of the Exotic Angel stuff like you see at Home Depot could ever spread far or take over - genetically and morphologically impossible. The houseplant type material is never invasive and I have had plants 10 years old that were just 2-3 feet across. If you want beautiful variegated and cutleaf ivies one can always plant them against a tree and trim off anything going horizontal into beds.
Oh, that is hilarious! English Ivy is one of my nemeses as well; even when it was somewhat in control, it was prone to black spot and aphids...which then created an ant problem. So we moved, 😉.
Yeah ... I can't get rid of my neighbor's English ivy, lilies of the valley, burning bush, thorn berries, and nightshade that all snuck into our yard. Who pays to get any of these?
As for bamboo, if it's planted in a deep pot as an accent, that can work. I do the same with raspberries. In a raised bed lined with 10mil plastic sheets.
Love it!
English ivy didn't take in my garden. I tried so hard to get it to grow.
I'm in Victoria Australia wisteria is beautiful and can be controlled. A neighbour had hers growing as a 'tree'. This was achieved by using a stake that supported the trunk and allowed the top to umbrella. Took a lot of pruning but truly a beautiful effect.
My late wife loved wisteria and controlled it.
At my old house I had a wisteria, but I trained it into a tree. Looked like an umbrella. I kept it pruned and had zero issues. At this house, however the neighbors untended wisteria is constantly trying to take over our split-rail fence so my husband prunes it.
Still Mandeville. I love wisteria too, but it's not the idea of having one in a pot. Wisteria seeds are dispersed throughout forests and competes and overgrows over trees, killing them. Forsythe Wildlife Natural Area in New Jersey is where I was convinced that it truly is an invasive.
I have a terrible terrible problem with wisteria! It came over from a neighbor's yard and has now killed a group of Leyland cypress trees and it's threatening to keep going down the line. I cannot kill it. It comes up from the ground and it travels over in the tree crown.
Really love it though!
I have wisteria it behaves itself, dry climate poor soil
Good to know! Is a lovely plant
I live in Colorado-never plant Tamarisk or Aspen trees, in Colorado, for all the reasons Linda mentions!! Learned the heard way.
Your garden is stunning 💗 in Rhode Island, that one thing never to plant would be our state flower, the violet! I inherited them and 30 years later, I have never eradicated them. It's impossible. However, I have recently heard they are edible, so at least I wouldn't starve. ☺️
Love violets
In parts of South New Jersey there is a purple wisteria that had escaped from gardens & u can see it on poles & fences & tall trees from the highways when driving thru.
I would also put any honeysuckle vine on that list. And Bittersweet vine too!!!!
Black eyed Susans & daisies & Asian plants & butterfly bushes & some grasses too.
Omg! Bought a house that had a wisteria and after 20 years, I took it out. So much work with little reward. To keep under control, I was pruning every week and consequently, removing buds in the process. Removing roots is a nightmare. Felt bad while removing it, but after two weeks, I am ecstatic it is gone, just wish I had done it 19 years ago!
I would suggests adding rose of sharon to the Black List of plants. It seeds itself very efficiently. We had some coming up in the privet hedge at our old house, and we could never get rid of it permanently. More grew back every season. The roots are impossible to pull out. It needs to be dug out (very difficult if you are trying to not damage the plants growing around it ). Also, Bradford pear trees (and any sort of ornamental pear tree that is a hybrid of a pear tree native to Asia) are very invasive in suburban neighborhoods here in eastern PA. The birds spread the seed to the point that fallow farm field can be taken over by these invasive pear trees within three years.
1. Bamboo! 2. Wisteria. 3. Virginia Creeper. 4. Trumpet Vine. 5. Your local no-no.
Exactly!
Thank you Susan B !
Gee, planted all four. Going to do some digging this next spring!
My neighbour has a trumpet vine it’s 45 years old very well behaved plant
Bamboo, plant it in a galvanized tub ($20 at the hardware store). then you can move it, and it can’t invade.
Your garden is a dream!
Yes indeed, just beautiful.
Perhaps a little Labour intensive.
It's a dream, but taking care of all that must be a full-time job.
Totally agree about the trumpet vine. If you have trumpet vine, keep it away from the house. I've seen it take root and grow in cracks of an old Victorian house.
Lynn R.
I live in drought ridden Texas panhandle. I have beautiful Virginia Creeper covered fences. Yes, it takes a little work to keep it contained, but in our brown countryside, its refreshing to see the green. I also have Trumpet Vine and because we have so little rainfall, it isn't a problem. Same with my Wisteria, so little rainfall that its easy to keep in check. I'm a vine lover!
I have Virginia creeper growing over my fence just like yours. Before I regard it as a weed, but now I've come to appreciate it. It hides my ugly fence and it becomes a beautiful red in the autumn. I give it a haircut once a month. I'd like to think of my flowers as performers on stage with Virginia creeper as the curtains.
LOL! 🙂
Well-said. It's a magnificent plant. I saw some at a local nursery a couple of years ago. You are inspiring me to take another look there. We're in AZ, and it might be best to plant it in the fall...?
I live in San Francisco. The guy next door has a little forest of it in his small yard with pink/purple bouginvilla, mixed in. It is absolutely gorgeous!!!!!! When the sun is rising and setting, the colors are STUNNING!!!!! 😉😉💖💜💕But he does have to have someone come in and thin it.
Bougainvillea, even though it can become GINORMOUS, at least it can take a good hard trimming every year to keep control over it. I once lived in a house where a previous owner planted bougainvillea in a 2.5' deep strip of dirt between the driveway and house. We could not use the driveway after mid June. That winter, we had a hard frost and it really burnt the plant. So, late winter, I pruned it down to 18" tall. The neighbors came over and yelled at me and told me I was killing the plant they waited to see bloom every spring. I told them about how badly it had been frost burnt and how I fully intended to use my driveway now. I also said I thought it would be fine considering it can grow upwards of a foot a week in the summer. Well, come spring and after the plant had grown to about 4' tall, they came over saying I had ruined the plant as it had no blooms that year. I suggested they be more patient as the blooms come on the tips of the shoots and the shoots had to be a certain age before they would bloom. Sure enough, in another couple of weeks, it started blooming. By the end of August, it had grown so tall, it went over the edge of my extra tall roof. That winter I pruned it again but only to about 4' tall with no complaints from the neighbors.
Vinca is a pretty flowing plant many colors but gets into everything and is hard to get rid of and also has bitter smelling leaves and flowers.
Never plant vinca in ground .plant in containers...
Omg yes
English Ivy is definitely on that list. Here in Georgia, there is so much kudzu that was planted in the 1930s for erosion control. They finally realized what a problem it was, but it was too late. The south is still having to deal with it nearly 100 years later.
Years ago when I first read about kudzu, i thought it sounded like a great idea to cover a railing. Fortunately my husband caught me. He shared with me that it was a terrible idea and explained why.
Thank G-d!!
Yes. Kudzu grows over everything! I always feel sorry for all the plants and trees being suffocated!
@@mountaingirl4252 Oh my gosh! When we first moved to Georgia ('90) I asked what that was that looked like it was devouring massive pine trees. It was kudzu! We were shown a picture of the same exact place 2 yrs before. It showed people removing a VERY small patch of the horrible blight now in Georgia and using a back hoe to dig up all around the area, hoping to rid the woods of Kudzu. Unfortunately, 2 yrs after that picture was taken, the entire area was smoothered by Kudzu! 3 yrs later many of the beautiful pines had fallen under the weight and suffocation caused by that horrendous vine.
Ah, yes. Kudzu - the plant that ate the South.
Yes, Arkansas, between Wynn AR. and Memphis TN. it's out of control BAD.
I agree with all of your list and have fought them all. I do grow a clumping bamboo and it is very controllable in a home garden, but if in doubt don't grow it. I harvest the seed pods from my trumpet vine before they pop open and that has helped a bunch. I live in a desert climate and can grow ivy, vinca major and chameleon plant and let intense sun and heat control them, but in Pacific NW they are huge problems. Redbuds are another free seeding tree that require a lot of work.
I bought a house with the bamboo, Virginia creeper, and trumpet vine growing vigorously in my back yard. It's been 4 years of trying to get the bamboo under control. The Virginia creeper is like you said more easily controlled. I cut back the trumpet vine to 1 stalk and will be trying to train and control it. I wish people would think before they plant something because they like the look of it.
A tip for bamboo if you're opposed to herbicide (my personal recommendation) is to hack the bamboo shoots down, wait for them to shoot again (they can go from stump to full height in a matter of days) and then take off all the vertical growth just as it puts out the horizontal leaf stalks. This process must be repeated over and over until it eventually runs out of energy stores in the root and dies, you've basically got to stop it going into leaf because those leaves feed the root and recoup the energy lost by shooting. It's a pretty arduous task hence why I recommend herbicide as a primary means of control
I'm so sorry! I forgot to mention what the little forest was! It's bamboo! I'm the comment from San Francisco. And its truly stunning.
I was at Lowe’s this week and a young couple was buying rosemary plants. Lots of them. About 20 plants. I asked them what they ere going to do with all that rosemary. “We just love to cook with rosemary. I just love it!” I suggested that the might not need that many plants and to put the in a large pot. I told them i have one I have had for at least 15 years and it is huge. They declined my suggestion and said the needed that many. I reminded myself of how many times I have gone my own way in the garden. And maybe one day I will be able to keep my suggestions to myself!!! 😜
Let them learn the hard way, I suppose.
Ignorance is bliss...unfortunately. Never know, someone will listen one day so keeping informing ppl. I do :)
Oklancie Laen 😂
Wow that certainly is a lot of rosemary 😂 I’m sure they will regret not taking your advice!
Tiramisu Mochi 😂
The neighbor at my old house had Boston ivy on a fence between our yards. It came over, under, and between the slats. It was on the ground in my flower bed also. She never trimmed it. I was glad to finally move.
In the uk we prune our wisteria every year. To a tight framework- actually you prune twice a year in the winter/early spring. Very easy. No big deal really. You certainly never just let it grow wild like that.
I don't think it grows so vigorously here in the UK, at least I've never seen one grow that enormous.
its not what you can see is the problem its what is going on under the ground take it from someone who has spent days digging up way war tendrils it even penetrated the landscape fabric that i had laid in the vain hope of controlling its expansion!
Same with buddleia and many other plants really. The threat is over exaggerated... probably to get more views.
lol I can promise, though it may be easy to tame in the UK, it is NOT in Northeast Texas. I’ve seen it take over with experienced gardeners throwing everything they know at it. It takes down strong fences with its weight. Tears down power lines. Crosses roads. I love seeing it in bloom…but once it gets going, there’s just no stopping it.
@@Freedom27401 i guess we just prune ours very hard back to a framework early every spring.
I planted a native wisteria 6 or 7 years ago and last summer was the first sign of any real growth. My garden is not close to any neighbor so I don’t have that concern.
Of course, at the rate it’s growing, I will be planted before it flowers.
I was scared of peppermint, but I pulled a lot out before fall and dried it for tea all winter. It has spread everywhere in the small patch but easy enough to pull back to tidy.🙏
Oh yes, mint is very aggressive, it will regrow, at least can be easily pulled out.
@@majawow mine died. No mojitos 😓
I am clueless as to how Virginia Creeper ended up growing in my garden. Probably from a bird dropping a seed because my neighbors don't have it growing. It grows along the my bedroom windows and I love the draping it does and the birds build their nest in it. The branches also make great wreath forms because of their flexibility. I have free wreaths to decorate with for the holidays!🤗
Oh! I never thought of that! I hate our creeper. It climbs our 70 ft blue spruce. I decorate wreaths so now I can make my own instead of buying. Woot!
I can't get rid of the Virginia creeper and it damages the morter in my brick wall.
I have English ivy, trumpet vine, wisteria and ruellia that people are all against and I don't personally have a problem with them. We keep them trimmed back responsibly and that makes all the difference. Your garden is lovely.
Agreed. I grew up along the Little Calumet River in Chicago. My parents also had a lovely garden like this lady's. As I got older, I added vegetables and other flowers. The yard was lovingly tended; trees included Maple, Bur Oak, Cottonwood, Honeylocust, Spruce, Elm, Willow, Birch, Plum, Cherry and Ash. Vines included Wild Grape and Virginia Creeper. They had no "pests" to speak of, though the Willows had aphids, and we would never put any of our plants on a "don't plant" list, unless one had a very small property.
Thank you, much appreciated from this young gardener. Summary;
1.Bamboo
2. Wisteria
3. Virginia Creeper
4. Trumpet Vine
5. Know your own geography/climate plant issues
I think differentiating running bamboo from clumping is important. I've grown the slower growing, clumping varieties (fargesia rufa, robusta, nitida) on our fence lines for 20 years without it invading the neighbor's gardens. And it's gorgeous. I do have running varieties but those have to stay in pots.
Good point, clumping bamboos are very well behaved and are nothing like the running bamboos, just don't expect much growth from them either.
I was just going to make that point. Clumping bamboo is wonderful, I planted timber bamboo, it was 3 inches across at the base and 30 feet tall.
Running bamboo can pop up 10 feet away from the parent plant and can push itself up through asphalt, you will need to contain it with a hard plastic barrier at least three feet down.
Yup if you love bamboo but don't like the outta control nature of it clumping bamboo is the way to go. It's very well behaved but in my opinion not as attractive. I like the variegated runners like Alphonse Carr lol if that's spelled right, and others like the green and white pygmy. I set lose LOL 4 different runners on my property and have made a fairly successful video called "the monsters called the running bamboo" that shows my ignorance, hatred, and unconditional love of these crazy plants. I was out cutting bamboo outta my neighbors yard earlier questioning why I ever planted it.....but I still love it cuz there's nothing quite like it! Maybe God will bless me and my neighbors by the bamboo blooming before I get to old to control it.🤞🤞🤞🤞🙏🙏🙏🙏
I bought my running bamboo from my local garden center. I had no idea there was a differnce and the person at the center should've warned me. I almost had a disaster. I lined a hole I dug with pool liner but the bamboo simply went over it and re-established and began invading my lawn...I finally killed it all off..clumping sounds like the way to go..
@@cherylmillard2067 Mine went right over the barrier and it was 5 inches above the earth..
So right about the trumpet vine! We have eradicated it from almost everywhere in the yard but we left it run amok in the black walnut trees. The flowers of the vine reach up the trees at least 30 feet and look magnificent in bloom. People stop and ask what kind of tree it is that has such big orange blooms. The hummers really enjoy it.
Hi Dot, I am obsessed with trumpet vine and finally managed to propagate it from seeds and stems cuttings. Now I watched this video and am concerned that it will overtake my little home destroy it and strangle the trees I am so upset what to do?
Important video. I planted a wisteria vine and it started to destroy my fence. I immediately had it removed. I planted 'clumping' bamboo as a privacy screen and it's totally fine. Must be CLUMPING bamboo. The only thing I don't like about it are the tiny leaves that it drops. It's been in my garden for over 10 years and has only spread a few feet and it's easy to cut the new stems because they pop up next to the original plant instead of sending out shoots everywhere.
The shedding is usually due to drought. Bamboos are very thirsty plants
So clumping is ok.
"And I don't advocate using nuclear devises in the garden, in general" Absolutely love your sense of humor!
Oh my Linda, i am sooo with You with that bamboo! Had to learn that lesson on my own, i planted one like about 15 years ago and all went fine the first lets say three years. But then i started finding little bamboo plants like even five or ten meters away and finally radically tried to dig the whole thing out which was a huuuuge amount of work. Still finding rests of it now and then and if i´d not be after it the bamboo propably still would take over the garden completely in some years...
Haha , Plant Wisteria, English Ivy over the biggest cities on this planet. That would change "klimate-change".
Imagine the whole city covered in those plants.
Kudzu would be good for this too.
@@missinformed4269 sheesh you know what vines do to houses and masonry?
Yes! Carolina Jasmine...was so pretty climbing my wrought iron trellis until it dragged it down. Last year I took out the vine and the trellis and thought it was all gone, wrong. Evidently the root is traveling under my stone patio because I found it climbing my blueberry bushes this year. 😳 Also, Cypress Vine! I planted it to climb over the support of a swing. I bet I pulled out hundreds of little starts popping up all over my gravel and in the grass around the swing. Grrrr. 🤪 I’m in zone 8a, Georgia. Love that you are helping everyone avoid the other bad ones! ❤️
Joy Whitley Hi Joy...I thought the cypress vine was sooo cute when I was gifted some babies years ago from a friend...you know the rest of the story😂
NaturalLife 😜lol!!
I'm glad I saw this. I adore Chinese wisteria. Every spring you can ride around rural parts of Georgia with your windows down to smell the beautiful scent. And who hasn't marvelled at those beautiful images of European storefronts and cottages covered in the blossoms?
This past weekend I finally bought some little starter plants. Thankfully, because of limited space and the need to be able to move them when I move, I never planned to plant them in the ground. I hope to bonsai one and plant two others in two big planters pushed up against a trellis. I'm still concerned I'll need to watch for vines attempting to creep over the pot edges, but I'm prepared for aggressive pruning if necessary. These will never go into the ground!
They should really be required to put warnings on the packaging or not make these available!
I love the idea of training it in a container!
I've lived in hot climates, Houston and Baltimore. In both cities I saw mature trees - oaks - into which wisteria had grown extensively. In the spring it looked as if the entire tree was in bloom. These were very old, mature wisteria but they had not damaged the mature trees. It does depend greatly on how these plants are planted and what they grow on. In years of growth, neither of these plants had spread at all to the ground around the trees.
Linda's advice is so accurate, I am a professional gardener and I earn a lot of money removing out of control bamboo and secondly ivy. This ladies advice is well worth taking on board.
I disagree strongly on the bamboo one, bamboo is a wonderplant that has been shown to
be a carbon sponge 'Bamboo’s fast-growing and renewable stands sequester carbon in their biomass - at rates comparable, or even superior to, a number of tree species. The many durable products made from bamboo can also be potentially carbon-negative, because they act as locked-in carbon sinks in themselves and encourage the expansion and improved management of bamboo forests.'
Mh-hm. When I moved in to my house the previous owner thought it was a "wonderful" idea to plant bamboo in the back yard. I researched it and sure enough found out that it was a take over plant. And I left it for a bit and sure enough it was growing outward. So I took on the tedious job over the next few months of digging it up, and anytime it shot up I would dig into the root system and have to put root killer. They had also planted a couple trees next to the house, how where they not worried about the root system bothering the foundation! Well it took me a couple of years and about a thousand dollars but I was able to remove all the unpleasant plants and trees. I did whatever I could by myself, the rest I had to pay to take out.
@@hihosh1 anyone with neighbors needs to put in a rhizome barrier before planting bamboo. It's the gift that keeps on giving.
What is you secret to removing English ivy? I am doing battle w 30% vinegar, and seems to be making a little headway. I strongly prefer natural solutions. Any ideas? Thanks in advance.
@@hihosh1 That doesn't mean it makes a good garden plant, especially if you have neighbors.
I absolutely adore my wisteria. It is very established and also very large. It scales the front of the house and branches off both left and right. So the whole front of the house is in bloom Spring/Summer. However, I needs yearly pruning as it grows so quickly. I believe the homeowners before us did a great job at training it correctly. If we let it grow higher, I believe it would grow into the roof tiles.... which wouldn’t be good.
I agree. It is gorgeous.
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You have to plant clumping bamboo and do it like raspberries-raised bed ONLY!
ONLY plant trumpet vine and wisteria as a specimen "tree" in the middle of your lawn-gorgeous like that-otherwise yeah-forget it! There is a false Virginia creeper that has no suckers and I butcher mine every fall, but best to drape it over chain link and have it along lawn.
I have wisteria as a tree in a 24" pot no drainage holes away from structures and poles and electric lines. my trumpet vine also.
No drainage holes? That makes sense to avoid roots escaping... I'm planting some in pots this week. Did you put stones in the bottom?
There must be a drain hole or the plants would die. Set the pot on bricks so there's open space between the pot and the ground. Poke under the pot a few times a year and saw off any roots that have crept into the soil. Then run like hell when the top growth takes off after bloom. The best use of Wisteria is always in someone else's yard.
@@MyCleverHandle your so wrong. I love it
I agree 100% about trumpet vine. It is a pest. One plant you don't mention is tradescantia (spiderwort.) It is an invasive plant - even grows in the cracks of the sidewalk.
Its also lovely.
I love that...not a bad plant, just the bad usage of a plant. 😊😊👏🏼👏🏼
I I agree with you Linda. And my advice: never plant tecoma in your garden.
(Tecoma radicans - Bignonia radicans - Campsis radicans).
Your garden is so beautiful! Thank you very much!
You should have mentioned that there are two different types of bamboo! The clumping bamboo is fine to plant in gardens.
Running bamboo is the type you should stay away from as it is very invasive! 🌿
She should also have mentioned there are ways to contain bamboo from spreading underground. e.g. copper barriers. bamboo hates copper and will stay away from it.
I'm in New England and would add Bittersweet to that list. I made the mistake of scattering some seeds years ago for the vine and berries that are commonly used in door wreaths here. It grows and travels underground and comes up everywhere, grows on telephone poles and is seen on roadsides and growing up trees. While it is green and beautiful to look at, it is terribly invasive.
I couldn't agree more about Wysteria! My old yard had it in the yard when I bought the place and oh my lord it was on the ground and rooting everywhere
My neighbors grow dill in their backyard. This spring I spotted a group of them growing in the oddest location of my yard. I yanked them out root and all. Month later I noticed another group of dill growing opposite end of the first group spotted. This time I embraced it. We are grilling more fish this summer. Que sera sera.
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So many herbs strongly evince childhood memories forme...good ones. Many I don't even use for cooking. But I cherish the aromas.
I've tried for years to grow just a bit of dill. Never successfully! Shouldn't be so hard. I live near NYC. What could I be doing wrong?
I am so jealous. It’s hard to grow here in my garden & 1 of my top 5 herbs. Fennel grows like a weed here - but dill - a struggle.
@@claudiaphilippe5655 You can just toss the seeds around now in a sunny area of soil that you will not disturb.
They don't need any attention at all. Then in the spring, sprinkle some more. If you sprinkle some seeds every month during the warmer months, you'll have dill from spring to freeze up.
All of these 'weeds' will do their thing without much or any assistance from us.
Then let a couple of plants grow to maturity. They produce huge amounts of seeds and you will
never be dill-free.
@@claudiaphilippe5655 You're trying too hard. Through the seeds in the yard and wait.
100% agree with all of this. Wisteria root damage is horrific too.
My neighbor has a bamboo in her garden and I am so tired to fight it, especially because it grown in the very steep hill and I it is very dangerous to climb there. Once I fell from that hill, I am glad I haven’t broken any bone. I wish she watched your video. I was thinking about planting wisteria but after watching this I won’t. Thank you.
The important thing to know about japanese/chinese imported plants like wysteria and bamboo is that they out-perform native plants, and therefore will take over everything.
China in general is slowly outperforming America not just their plants haha
In certain parts of the world-Ireland-rhododendrons are considered pests as well.
Indeed. Nothing from China. Lol ijs
This is solid advice, and insight!!!👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Kudzu.....
In South Florida it is the Dragon Tree. The root is large and big as a trench. You’ll need a bull dozer with digging ability. And if a thumb size fall to the ground, one month, it’s growing all over again.
I don't know how it performs in South Florida but in Sarasota (zone 9b) the worst thing you can plant is the muscadine grape. They will grow everywhere and if not controlled, you'll have vines - thick enough for Tarzan to swing on - growing all up and down your trees. They spread by underground branches and will invade every section of your property. I'm speaking from experience.
Als oleander it's pretty but poisonous the realtor will make you pull them out in order to sell your home
Clumping bamboo vs running bamboo. Clumping bamboo will grow out in a circle, it is controllable. Running bamboo is uncontrollable and should be against the law or code in every city.
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Yes that is true! Ihave several clumping bamboo in my garden and they are so beautiful!
I was thinking about planting clumping bamboo as a privacy screen, but now I’m a little nervous. Do you have any experience with graceful bamboo or Seabreeze bamboo?
@@jamesthomas1123 Are you asking me? I only have experience with Fargesia murielae. I have 3 in my garden, different heights
I love my wisteria, however you have to seriously baby sit it and cut it back every year. If you let anything run rapid it will do what it does best and bully anything in its path. Vining plants do not play nice unless they have a good nanny. And with cutting these back just promotes growth. Good video.
I just had my husband dig up our wisteria! It was driving me crazy! We planted a pink lady slipper hydrangea in it's place! So glad that it's gone, but it took a lot of digging! Those wisteria roots are enormous!!
I have every one of those plants in my yard, and I love them. Ivy and creeper like the shade so it doesn't invade the well lighted areas. Wisteria can be pruned from time to time - and should be! Each plant adds something to the landscape and all of them are like children, they need some degree of supervision. My yard has a type of bloom in it year round and it adds a little cheer.
I rip out any Virginia creeper that rears it’s head. The neighbor has it climbing up trees so I can enjoy the autumn color without too much trouble.
I started a wisteria a few years ago & it’s still limping along (too much shade, maybe this year it’ll finally grow)
@@jorgehoran1691 It takes a couple of years (depending on the soil) for the wisteria roots to become established, and then it will take off. If it has something to climb on, it will grow straight up, seeking the sunlight. In a few more years, you will need to keep it pruned, or it will take over a location.
Beautifully said as I have all those plans as well!
I can NOT get rid of the Virginia Creeper in my yard... most especially in my juniper. It’s an inherited problem. Ugh
@@leighcontella811 When the ground is soft, you can often pull it up by the roots. I don't know your soil type, but in hard clay, just cut out all the roots you can find.
I have had Virginian Creeper (Woodbine) in two woodland gardens, including my current one. Whether it's desirable to plant it or not depends on your climate, what kind of garden you have and how you care for the garden. The roots are quite shallow and very easy to pull out completely if desired. I keep it as a ground cover for the deep blue-toned green and the fine leaf shape. Unlike ivy, it clings to trees and buildings by pads that do NOT penetrate into brick, mortar, etc. Training it to run up a mature tree trunk is fine if desired. This is the plant (not ivy) you see in photos of big English estate houses.
I'm a zone 7, and virginia creeper that i didn't even plant killed 3 of my rose bushes and has started on a hibiscus tree.
OMG I fought Wisteria for years on the property we bought, it was so out of control, almost impossible to get rid of. It was like a monster. The feeders spread all over the yard what a nightmare. I have had to cut wisteria vines so thick it took a CHAINSAW to get through them. DON'T PLANT IT.
I know!!!😱😱😱
Sounds like you had a real problem...it was clearly an old plant which had been allowed to go native...was it against a wall? better to have cut it back severely and trained the new tendrils( feeders I think are what you call them) onto a trellis and remember the flower pinniculs...grow on 12 month old shoots so remember this and prune gently every year.
@@hotoneinspai No, it was a neighbor's "plant" that eventually made it's way onto our 4 acres, it went wild.
@@hotoneinspai You can't control it's roots, it spreads underground all over and will go on and on showing up in places you never expected.
Use salt it kills everything
I grow both Wisteria AND Trumpet vine. But since our growth zone is so short, (WISC). Its not a problem at all and love it!!!
Thank you for this video. English ivy, Irish ivy and vine clematis are also some to mention that grow just like Wisteria.
Oh my goodness me, your garden!!! It is delicious! I'm almost there with the sounds and smells. Spring is almost sprung and I can't wait to get back out into my garden. It has been such a good place for my head this last year.
Thank you for this video! I recently purchased a Chinese Wisteria sapling for my backyard. My eyes were looking at how beautiful the blooms were, and not at the difficulty, it would present. Thanks to your advice, I will plant something different.
You might want to do a little more research. Its not a monster.
My sister lives in So Cal. I complemented her on how cool and modern her bamboo along the fence was- she just did a slow turned side-eye...
WHAT A BEAUTIFUL garden with a beautiful lady I can tell she's got lots of class and she's educated!!!
Thank you for sharing to us
Living in Washington, I agree with this list. I have two yards I upkeep and they both have bishops weed. The leaves are beautiful but this plant is something I try to remove every year because it chokes out other plants. # 2 on my list is Violet ground cover. This was a popular planting in my Historic district and almost home owner in the area fights it decades later. #3 is Yucca if the roots break off you get more plants durning removal which you have to dig out later. Starve this plant of water and it will eventually set out seed pods.
Wisteria is a very sought after plant here in the UK. It doesn't seem to be a problem. Must depend on the climate.
The climate, and the variety.
American wisteria is much easier
Chinese wisteria is very aggressive
Kills trees
Never plant
We grow bamboos in our garden, absolutely beautiful clump forming ones, statuesque and wonderful, we also have a splendid wisteria tree. I think our climate in the Uk allows us to grow probably a much larger range of plants. Oh we also have Virginia creeper giving us a fantastic display of autumnal colour. The wisteria on buildings in the U.K. gives a wonderful colour display in the spring. Trumpet vine struggles in my garden.
Yes I agree. Not a problem over here. You just have to prune it twice a year and cut back the twine at the base of the plant too.
snappyeileen I agree with you about Wisteria but bamboo never!
That is funny I agree with the bamboo and wisteria, but I lived in NJ and had Virginia creeper and wanted it to climb my deck but it kept dying, I also wanted trumpet vines and they would not grow either. There are many invasives like Japanese honeysuckle that are listed ast invasive but for some of us are just not.. Lovely garden thanks.
Is it weird how one plant is such a problem in one area, and in another area it is coveted? LOL
I have 8 acres and Honeysuckle and Virginia creeper have taken over our woods.
I’ve been able to get rid of autumn olive but those two I cannot keep up with!
I think even if I removed it 100% from our property the seeds from neighbors plants, via birds, may never stop.
HaHa !! In zone 4b, we do not have those problems since we have 5-6 months of snow and cold. Snow-on-the-mountain is a pain for us and almost impossible to remove.
Yes wisteria can be a monster! I lived in Japan a few years ago and noticed that it looks beautiful in well maintained parks and home gardens generally kept in pots and pruned nicely.
You’re so right. Thank you! My neighbor has planted bamboo, ivy, privet and wisteria. All such a nuisance!
(screams internally) Wow. I'm so sorry.
I guess I'm lucky to live in an environment where I am just happy to see anything survive let alone become a problem - except for tumble weeds.
Yeah, that's like me. See other comment re: my battle with Achillia.
trumpet vine even in Arizona, never see the end of it without a couple of years of drought And digging up all roots
Lol. We must be neighbors😁.
Couple varieties of fig trees do well in the desert. Once established very little maintenance. We had one fig tree producing fruits almost as big as tennis balls and sweet like jelly.
@@kimchee94112 in Australia we have a rock fig, which must source water in the rocks & exposes it's roots over & around cliffs etc. It's a desert dweller, rather special tree which probably provides food for native animals.
I second the Virginia creeper. A previous owner planted it and I can't get rid of it. Plus I am highly allergic to it. I have it somewhat contained to the neighbors property only but it keeps coming back. Plus it has killed off two trees in our yard. It was on those trees prior to us moving in.
Eating Apples and celery blocks histamine
Me too!! I hate those things I had no idea people planted them I thought they were just like weeds cause they are everywhere around here!
Honeysuckle is on my list! It was constantly taking down my pasture fencing!!
"I dont advocate using nuclear devices in the garden". I love this lady already. Subscribed.
Wow. I haven't even watched all of this yet but looked at the list of the plants you're advising against and realize I've been actively considering THREE of them! Thanks for the heads-up!
Thanks for this video very informative for me I'm a zone 7....my neighbor has a hedge of rose of Sharon. I dread the Fall... ugh the seed heads!!! The wind blows them clear across to the other side of my property and all in between😡😢
I have a couple and now when I cut them back I lay a tarp or sheet under them and dispose all the seed heads that drop! This has really saved me a lot of work by greatly reducing hand weeding.
We just purchased a home in North central Oklahoma. The yard all the way around has rose of Sharon --some 12 to 15 FEET wide and just as tall!! We're attacking it with chain saws. It is a life long work in progress.
English ivy is my nemesis.. huge bed full of it when I moved here....3 yrs later still fighting it...
Look on the bright side, other than cutting it back once in a while, you'll never have to mow it.
The bee's and butterflies any buzzy insect loves the flowers of Ivy, when they opened you could hear the buzzing 50 feet away.
English Ivy - Yep, it’s everywhere that’s shady.
I eliminated it in my yard, but not my neighbors and it’s back.
I fought a war against it after it started delaminating the brick on my 1890's house. I lost. Moved and it's probably still there.
Ivy, honeysuckle, Vining Jasmine, Virginia Creeper, mints, kudzu, mimosa, Morning Glory, onions and Tut grass are extremely invasive in our area. Bradford pears grow fast, then split once over twelve feet.
I bought a trumpet vine last year but am keeping it in a pot on my deck. First sign of little starts in the yard.. it's gone.
Also that came with the property is a vine called wild grape, it makes a good hedge over the wire fence put there but needs constant pruning and maintenance
I agree. Wild grapes are much harder to control than Virginia Creeper for me.
I love how wisteria looks. The developers had planted it and it didn't seem to be doing much until i saw it growing up through the porch planks. I cut it and dug it out. Quite the job.
My experience too. A couple of neighbours kept theirs and they look gorgeous. But out of a hundred hones, only 2 kept them. I wonder how many had them growing through their porch planks too?
You are so right!! I just saw a power pole completely covered in wisteria, going up and down the cables, in a house we were looking to buy. Needless to say, that put me off from buying, I do not want to deal with that!!
the vining plants aren't great for the telephone poles but honestly my eyes gravitate towards your fence and how lovely they frame it when your videos pan in that direction. I didn't know you hate them so much! You actually have the better looking view in my opinion! They overhang so nicely when you trim them. They dont' look a huge maintenance on your end for the amount of visual interest they provide in your garden scenery. Those vines make the fence not boring and standard... gives your garden a more "secret garden" appeal.
I've inherited a full crop of bamboo (and to a lesser extent wisteria) in my garden in New Zealand (fabulous temperate climate that allows even the most reluctant plant to flourish). Over one year on, the war is still waging and unfortunately, many very desirable plants are having to be forfeited because they are too deeply intertwined with the bamboo. I am determined to beat it but it will have done a great deal of damage to my body and soul in the process. Linda, you never said a truer word when exhorting your audience to NEVER EVER plant it in their garden!
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For the desirable plants you can try to airlayer some branches before you remove them, that way you can plant them again after you've finished waging your war against bamboo. Since the plants wont have their old roots there shouldn't be bamboo growing from it.
Just make sure you pot up the newly rooted branches until you can plant them out.
We are constantly battling with trumpet vines. They are pretty when in bloom but would never make this mistake again.
What if I plant it on a large planter.....
Would that keep it from
Multiplying?
@@flowerpower2079 That should help contain them. Ours flower and drop lots of seed pods though so watch out for them also.
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It's such a beautiful vine. But after some research, I decided not to buy it after all 😞.
I read that the roots go down 9-inches deep & even a planter cannot contain them. It really saddens me because it would look so beautiful on my fence.
Thank you so much for telling me about the seeds.
P.S. are you currently battling this vine?
@@flowerpower2079 They are beautiful lush vines and they look great flanking our patio (as you may have seen in our videos) but we continue to battle them and they seem to get worse every year. They weave themselves into the roots of our roses and shrubs and pop up all over the lawn! It’s probably for the best that you learned about them now and can avoid the headaches.
I am constantly cutting the shoots out of my flower beds. Pain in the neck for sure.
Good advice on Wisteria is to plant it away from anything it can "attach" onto. Plant it away from other trees, from other plants, away from the house, a wall, etc. Plant it in an open space with full sun. It will grow similar to a Lilac bush or Rose of Sharon.
I think a tree formed wisteria is beautiful. Have to stay on it though. Don't let the canes run on the ground.
They are truly beautiful, but there really isn't a way to keep them away from everything else. At least not in my zone 8 climate. The problem is the runners under the soil. I'm still battling them and the tree was removed a year ago. I had to get rid of it. It was suffocating my gardenia.
@@stacey_d I must have American wisteria plants instead of the Asian varieties… because I haven’t seen any shooters pop up. If they are popping up, they are mowed down as soon as they sprout by the lawn mower.
@@stacey_d I must have American wisteria plants instead of the Asian varieties… because I haven’t seen any shooters pop up. If they are popping up, they are mowed down as soon as they sprout by the lawn mower.
@@LeviPageTV you are lucky. Yes, I think my wisteria was an Asian variety. Enjoy!
Love to watch your shows my 13 year old has gotten into gardening and she is a faithful viewer. Thank you.
I have virginal creeper that just mysteriously appeared one day. I HATE THIS FREAKING VINE FROM HELL!!! I spend hours upon hours pulling it out of my shrubs. Good luck with the trumpet vine. You will do what IT wants you to.
When dealing with Virginia Creeper ... use gloves. This can be poisonous for some people.
It May sound strange, but the fig tree is a monster where I live. It pokes through concrete everywhere in my yard.
Yes, I had to get rid of mine as it was too close to the house!
And they harbor rats!
@@E-Kat i have the same problem
@@tinamarie0701 get rid of yours too as it will damage your house foundations. Grow another one far away from the house. You can easily grow it from the seed you get from shop bought fruit. They grow like weeds. 😀
@@E-Kat thanks i have had it for over 20 years and its massive! I've been cutting it down slowly over the last few weeks... But its sandwiched between my house and my neighbors. Unfortunately it needs to go!
Oh gosh, i completely agree with you. I feel like wanna show this video to my neighbor. They plant bamboo, I mean BAMBOO like they have pandas in their home to feed with. The dried leaves flew away everywhere makes real mess at my porch and other neighbors too. A totally disaster. This been happening for almost 10 years and I have to deal with this until today 😡
Mimie Vee Pandas!!!😂🤣😂
I know it's a pain for you, but your panda comment has me 😅
@@sandythomas2837 😅😅
Thank you so much Linda. I was planning to see if I could train a Trump vine into a hedge covering up a pink cinder block wall in Southern California. I’ve seen them done all over Orange County and LA county. But my construction manager said He detested any vining plant because of where they end up when that good gardening homeowner moves. So I think I’ll put in some nice Dodonaea Purperea and prune them into tree shapes to create the privacy we need.
Here in zone 7a , many plants that are invasive in warmer zones do very well here and are not invasive- I would call them tough and drought tolerant. My Japanese wisteria is stunning and always get compliments, as does my euphorbia groundcover. Really just depends on your climate.
Ugh. You are misusing the term invasive. Please look it up.
We had wisteria that was killing the trees on the riverbank it took 3 years of judicious use of Tordon to eradicate it.
Could you do a video about creeping and climbing plants that you would recommend for people who want to cover a trellis or archway? I currently have grapes going in on a large trellis off my deck that we plan on keeping in line as well as some honeysuckle. The honeysuckle we know we have to be very careful with. I want to have an arched trellis leading into my yard but don't want something over aggressive on it...
I would like that video also !
I’d love to know about clematis that are suitable for growing through a hedge! I love the look of the Apple blossom variety but I believe an evergreen is not really the best option
I've been learning about native plants, and in the native plant group I belong to, one lady said she's tried a number of native vines and has now given up on them altogether. Native plants are better, but if you really want a vine on a trellis, an annual might be better, or a climbing vegetable plant, like scarlet runner beans, purple pole beans, sweet potato, squash or cucumber, etc. Then, get rid of them at the end of the season and start again the next year. I'm going to do a teepee trellis next spring for vegetables and let my neighbor's 4-year-old daughter play inside. She's going to love it.
@@obsidiansea I've got a nice plethora of native plants in my yard. That's actually my focus, along with edible and pollinator friendly. I haven't looked into native vines, hmmm, not sure we have much of those. I'm in a mostly high desert area(but also kind of near a river in a valley), but I'll definitely take a look. If I went the annual route it would have to be non edible because the archway is directly by the road. I'd rather not eat that 😅 Gave me some ideas though, thanks 👍
So glad to have come upon this conversation! Among the five plants never to plant, nothing would get me to pull up my wisteria but it does grow underneath the the shakes in my Cedar Shake house. Not really a pronlem keeping it contained otherwise and it's never popped up anywhere else.
I'm also looking to grow some trumpet vine to cover some wrought iron trellis I've bought so the neighbors can't located to my terrace.
My mom planted a trumpet vine years ago...against my earnings. 20 years later and it’s taken over the neighborhood.
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Thank you for the information. I just bought trumpet vine. It will stay in 50 gall container. I will keep on eye on this so I can trim whenever it need to. I want to use it for privacy around the pool area.
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@@abbyabuyuan7675 Don’t do it! My husband planted a trumpet vine and it was on the roof. I’m still fighting it off after 15 years. Ditto for bamboo.
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I am stuck with pepper trees on my back fence. They are from a large park who doesn't want to do the proper maintenance and they're taking away my morning sun and send shoots all over the place, not to mention the fact that hardly anything will grow under them. Pepper berries on my sidewalks also. When I moved in the fence was lined with different colors of oleanders. I preferred that
We had the same issue with Wisteria, it grew up the utility pole and caused a horrific fire but after that fire, we learned that it's so easy to control. As soon as you notice it growing up a pole, cut it at ground level and that will stop it for a while, it only takes a minute to cut it.
Privet is pretty invasive where I live and I used to have a neighbor that embraced it. She let it grow wild all over her yard, which meant it ended up growing in my yard. White gum eucalyptus can also grow to towering heights. They really need to be maintained by arborists or they’ll topple over.
Privet can be nasty! Where do you garden Ryan?
The only thing I sort of regret planting inside my garden is rose of Sharon’s, tons of seeds and seedlings that have to be pulled all the time.
I understand!
You can plant Altheas in hard. poor soil so they don't take root easily. But, they are invasive. I had about 40 seedlings from one plant, dug them up and sold them with a warning.
thank you for the kind heads-up!
I was given one for mother's day long ago. It was gorgeous until the seedlings came. I finally had a garden helper remove it and I'm still finding seedlings three years later.
Is that the Hibiscus?
Great advice Linda. For me, it's English Ivy and Lily of the Valley!
Lily if the valley? Really? I have it in my garden and it doesn’t seem to be an issue. Maybe our climate is different to yours.
I like both Lilly of the valley and vinca, both considered too aggressive.
I want a dense ground cover in that area so I have both there and let the, battle it out!
Oh....Lily of the Valley? I would LOVE to have them growing in my garden, but it doesn't work. Probably the wrong soil and not a real shady place.
Mint should be on the list. I made a raised bed 2 feet by 3 feet to plant herbs in. I thought everything would be contained in the bed since the native soil underneath is really hard compact clay and rocks. I was sooooooooo wrong. I have a mint lawn now and not much else. on the positive though I planted several herbs that are invasive in the box and they all defend themselves well against each other.
Catnip!
My neighbors behind me planted bamboo. What a nightmare for us. The roots dig in deep and require someone with lots of strength to dig and hack them up. Thank you for making others aware. If you hire someone to landscape your yard make sure they don’t use bamboo. Our neighbors hired a landscaper and this is what they used🥺.
Bamboo hates copper. an acquaintance used copper to contain her bamboo for decades before she sold her home. And some bamboo is spreading, and other bamboo is clumping.