7 plants I'll never grow again* 🌿 (*probably 😃)
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- Опубліковано 6 чер 2024
- There's a lot of seed starting going on here! Join me today as I start a few things (many of which are new to me) and talk through my process, then get a tour of what's already growing under lights.
Spoiler alert: I definitely planted too much. I guess this is just my lot in life, to be buried in sea of seedlings because I lack any self control around plants.
There's a few plants that I'll probably never grow again. Some because they were bad actors, some because they were misunderstood, and others because I just don't care for them.
What plants won't you grow again?
Just because these plants aren't for me, doesn't mean you might shouldn't necessarily grow them. If you love them and they do well for you, then grow them!
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What plants won't you grow again? Are you horrified by any on my list?
Loriope is the Devil and I'll never plant it again.
@@goodgugamuga Ooh that’s a good one for the list!
@@goodgugamugacan you tell me why
I think I'm giving up on Heuchera this year. They are very expensive "annuals" for me. I may consider some Heucherellas if they have an interesting enough contrasting color, but I'm done wasting my money with Heuchera.
@@stetrick612 put them in pots to let them grow strong and you need to have drainage in the garden, dont plant too deep. Thats really it unless theyre getting eaten
If you ever feel stupid about accidentally planting a pest. Just know I planted spearmint, peppermint, and lemon balm all in the same garden bed. 😂😅 Hope that makes someone feel better lol
Hey at least you did it all in one bed :)
You have my deepest sympathy. I did the same.
lmao. Bless your heart for admitting that lol. Been there ❤
Wow, my deepest sympathies. Painful.
What plant won??
Beware of plants in a private sale where someone has a ton of them potted up. Ask yourself why.
It anything called ‘great groundcover’!
@@pamsmith7369 "spreads well" 😂
"can grow anywhere"
I have a simple rule in gardening. Plant what makes you happy.
As a long time gardener, just be sure that what makes you happy today won't be your nightmare tomorrow (that is in a few years.)
My dad had a clump if day lilies from his grandmother's yard that I split between my house & 2 friends. It has a huge Orange triple bloom & I spread them down my fence line. I live it when they bloom. Lily if the valley smells wonderful but is highly poisonous, even to handle
I'm thrilled when anything lives
I love daylilies. I had a bigger garden and it was relaxing for me after work to groom the plants and see how everything was doing. I would often dead head the daylilies at sundown so the next day there weren't dead blooms hanging. I like to fuss😊.
We had lily of the valley when I was growing up. My dad was a gardener. He had it planted at the edge of the woods. It was lovely there, needed absolutely no care and the lawn mower kept it from spreading into the yard. It was just fine at the edge of the woods and was beautiful there.
Yeah my grandmother had a patch around a weeping tree. The lawn mower kept it from spreading and it was beautiful. When I was a kid I loved those flowers and wanted some too, but now I don’t have that kind of space for toxic flowers.
@@unemilifleur Really, in the right place they are easy to manage. I mean if they run around under shrubs, how bad?
There was lily of the valley along the hedge at the house where I grew up that were planted when my mother was one year old. They stayed there for nearly a hundred years, literally, until the new owners built a brick wall fence.
I always looked forward to them in the spring, and they were never a problem.
I feel like everyone has that one plant that sends them into an uncontrollable, blinding petty rage. It’s like a rite of passage for every gardener 🤣
LOL
Not that I planted it, but this was my reaction to poison ivy. Couldn’t get rid of it, and was seeing it everywhere, even in my dreams (nightmares).
My husband HATES Red Osier Dogwood 😆 he says never ever plant that in the yard anywhere haha
Ground ivy. Just when you think it's gone, nope.
Winter creeper! AAARRGHH
It’s never a “mistake” it’s a learning curve🤣
God bless your positive attitude.
Mint. Enough said.
😂😂😂😂
Ok, I’m such an idiot, I planted mint in my flowerbed. It has yet to really get going but I’m sure it’s coming 😅
If you can let mint dry out it will die. (not water it and no rain -)
Only in pots set on a hard surface (they can escape pots with those runnrrs)
@@alicianorvell3229 I planted mint under a tree in horrible soil that I couldn't get anything else to grow. It has concrete edging all around. I think I'll be okay there but will still keep a watch on it. If it starts to spread outside the edging, I'll cut the sprinkler off that waters it.
Morning glories 20 years still pulling out the runners 😡
Grandpa Ott ... UGH!!!
You must live in a warm climate
Morning glory or bindweed?
I found what I thought was a wild Morning Glory in a pile of loom that was delivered so I rescued a few and found out later it was an undesirable plant/weed called choke weed. It winds itself up other plants tightly and I regret not knowing!
It's probably bindweed
Bamboo and pampas grass. Our neighbor has these two things plants right next to our fence and they spread like crazy. They’re invasive and hard to kill. In fact, if you try to chop it back or kill it, it just grows back more aggressively. Also, bulb plants spread and are hard to dig out.
OMG yes! I moved into a rental once with Bamboo & yikes 😳
I'm still trying to dig up the bamboo the previous owners planted probably 50 years ago. So annoying. Also, Nandina, so invasive. 🤦🤦🤦
Somebody might pull my southern card but crepe myrtle is my nemesis!! Our rivalry is so next level…. I’ve tried to decimate their numbers and they’ve fought back with their strappy, switchy limbs and endless roots and shoots. Many tears, some crepe murder, and one corneal abrasion later….not much has changed. They’re still out there. Laughing at me.
😂 Crepe murder!!!
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Are you complaining or boasting lol. Have tried a few times, bringing it in over winter. Never lasted a year here in Ireland.
Yes, I hate crepe myrtle. It has a mind of its own and keeps spreading. Previous homeowner planted the dreadful thing. I keep fighting.
Very difficult to grow in the southwest but there are some beautiful crepe myrtle shrubs in this area that are stunning!!
Nurseries need to take part of the blame. They need to be upfront to the general public on what can be invasive in their area and clearly mark it as such. Either invasive due to runners, rhizomes, re seeding etc
Invasives can cause such a big problem with our native plants being choked out . Most people wont do what is needed to eradicate a bully in the garden. If people were informed they could make a decision about that plant as they are shopping for one.
I agree. There are some plants that simply should not be sold or should come with a BIG warning if they are.
I completely agree! I worked at a garden center and they started selling Trumpet Vine, which in our area IS totally invasive, and I (sarcastically 😏) said, "Why don't we sell some dandelions and kudzu vine while we're at it?" Crazy.
I agree!
@@TheImpatientGardener I guess nurseries are there to just sell whatever makes them profit. We the consumer need to always take the time to screenshot the plant at the nursery and then go home and do a lot of research. I do not trust nursery people at all. I've been told many lies till I learned to start doing my own research so I can't blame anybody but myself and nobody else! I'm almost 70 and I guess I've learned to never buy anything because it's cute or pretty. Lessons learned! Buyer beware!
Definitely agree with this. You've got different levels:
1. native and plays nice
2. Native and aggressive
3. Exotic and plays nice
4. Exotic and invasive
4 should probably be illegal to sell. The others should be labeled clearly and accurately. I know it depends on region, microclimate, etc. but surely they could figure something out.
Japanese Knotweed. My god, once that takes hold in the garden it's like Day Of The Triffids in the blink of an eye.
I had to deal with that a few years ago. It popped up in my garden, don't know how it got there. Then just started going crazy. I recall looking up on the internet first to figure out what it was, then to find solutions for dealing with it. One blog gave some very good advice (applies to any invasive plant, actually) and that is no plant can move faster than we can! So we just keep pulling/chopping/ whatever needs to be done and we will win. Yes, occassionally a little might pop up every now and then (I did get rid of the knotweed!!). This advice gave me hope and strength.
I pulled some out of one my beds yesterday. Digging out the runners was a beast, ended up having to replant the whole area. Hope I got most of it🤞
Just the suffit "weed" is a bit of a warning sign!
In the UK knotweed on your property or even on your neighbor's property can severely reduce the sale value. It's extremely invasive.
its all over our area, thank goodness out of range of my home but not that far away. It loves the edges of forests and marshes and side of the hiway. I cant imagine the pain one must go through to eradicate it.
I love Lily of the Valley, but I have learned how to tame it. We put a patio by the side of our house. There was a 4" gap between it and the fence. I put a piece of metal edging under the fence. Placed the flowers between the two and let it fill in the area. And now eight years later they are still contained. Did this with some mint also, and so far it has stayed corraled.
That is an awesome idea! So true some of these "bad" plants just need to be contained.
I love Lily of the Vally too. My Grandparents had a fish pond with rocks and fern behind it and Lily of the Valley. It was contained and the fragrance was amazing.
I was so excited to plant Lily of the valley because I’m a May baby and it’s my birth month flower. I knew nothing about its growth habit. Thank goodness I only bought 2!! 😂 I’m probably going to cut it back significantly this year because I had no idea it would spread so fast, but it has filled out the bed nicely.
Wisteria, I have been pull runners from the plant for ever.
Vinca major. I took a small clump from my mother’s garden to help fill in my new garden space when I bought our home. It has been 20 years of trimming and yanking just to keep it contained within a space surrounded by concrete. It even overtook mint!
Wow! Planted a bunch of these last year . They did well but they didn’t come back this year. I live on SC coast ! Thank you for your video ❤
Diane
I had it on the side drive way it had been planted by previous owners. I got tired of trying to dig it up and 5-6 years ago I took my auger and planted a bunch of purple, pink and white tulips(early, mid and late varieties) it is the only area the squirrels haven’t eaten my tulip bulbs and I think it is because of the densed mat the Vinca creates… makes sorta like a netting the squirrels can’t get to.
I love it now… it has a cottage look from January and still blooming in the second week of May.
Vinca’s my nemesis lol. It was planted in my front bed by the previous homeowner. For a couple of years I let it fill in the bed while new plants got established, but I had to hack it back multiple times every season so it wouldn’t completely smother the other plants! I finally dug it all out, but those roots are long and winding and I still have a couple shoots pop up here and there. 🙄
Snow on the mountain.
I'm still digging it up after 8 years
I fought that thug for 3 years and finally had to use chemicals. It was awful.
Oh, oh! I have been desperately trying to grow it! I better rethink that plan.
The worst. I think the tiniest piece of root will generate a takeover. Impossible to get rid of without removing every bit of soil a good six inches down across the entire area.
In my ignorance I have a lot of plant thugs growing. That same Artimisia and an aggressive form of Liriope. Day lilies are messy. I’ve gotten rid of a lot of bearded Irises. The flowers are too top heavy and always get knocked down by the inevitable wind. I have two varieties that are a little on the shorter side and seem to hold up better against the wind. I have some Bamboo which is a big truant but in their case they are so ravishing that I don’t mind doing battle against them. Let’s just say I have an ax.
@@pamelap.123almost forgot about this one, but think I will need chems for that plaintan hosta also.
I live in the mountains in AZ. I grateful if ANYTHING grows. Very few plants are invasive here.
I absolutely LOVE common daylilies!!! So beautiful!!
I planted some fancy daylilies, babied them, and they just didn't perform. Then I bought a 3-pack at Walmart. I discovered later that it was Frans Hals--old-fashioned form, three yellow petals interspaced with three orange petals with a red stripe. It grew three times better than any other daylily I had, and I've divided it a number of times. It has one flush of blooms, but always prolific. I like the simple orange ones too--a very pleasant color. I live in New Mexico, so nothing is invasive--well maybe Perovskia.
Twilight Evening Primrose and I are about to have words. I’m the kinda guy who always feels the need to divide and propagate my perennials because I’m a poor, and boy was I played the fool. This primrose done danced her way ALL over the place, and my idiot self has unleashed the beast.
You’re funny!
Feel good about tearing some out and just composting or pitching them. It's okay. If you try to replant everything to some other location, you're gonna go crazy. Toss em.
Can I ask what zone you live in? I started some seeds and now you've have me worried I should chuck before I make a mistake planting them.
They are well behaved in a dry, central CA garden that receives no summer rain and only a little supplemental water. But mine became an ugly disaster when they spread into a shady garden that did receive a little summer water. They went crazy and were nearly impossible to remove, And the worst part was that the leaves were a splotchy red/green andI they totally stopped blooming.
😂
Yucca. Those suckers never die!
Ya' got that right!!
Yes! Dug down a foot and still found viable roots after 2 years of trying to kill it.
me too. @@barbarathompson7359
😂😂😂 I love my yucca! I think they are gorgeous in bloom ❤
@@barbarathompson7359 3 ft down x 2 ft wide finally took it out of commission.
Erin, thank you for giving us permission to not like certain plants to grow in our gardens!! I realize it's a very personal decision, but we have the right to spend money, work, time, sweat on plants that do WELL for us and make us happy. I personally do not like hot colored flowers in red, orange, hot yellow. I'm in Texas, and it's already hot enough without adding hot colors. Also, I'll never grow plants that spread or reseed aggressively....too much work. I've learned to be careful of plants that friends are too eager to share...they are often very aggressive, that's why they have so much of it to give away.
I am totally with you about creeping bellflower AND Lily of the Valley!
Lamium anyone? And whoever planted Star of Bethlehem on my property, however many owners ago, will forever feel my wrath.
Erin - please make your next video “plants/shrubs/trees I can’t live without!” Love your honest, humor and knowledge (however that’s been obtained - lol)
OMG, Star of Bethlehem is crazy!! I didn't plant it in my yard and I sure didn't remember seeing it when we moved into our home, but it has taken over like it has squatter's rights. PS: Scilla is pretty much the same way, but doesn't last as long - and I DID plant that one when I didn't know plants could be invasive.
I actually have a lot of Star of Bethlehem and don't mind them. They can be mowed down, and at least they're easy to dig the clumps up.
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Lamium is well-behaved for me and I love it, but Star of Bethlehem is not my favorite.
I recently bought a house that has a small patch of Lamium around a rock and l love it. I would like to plant more somewhere in my yard.
Star of Bethlehem, other than being a pretty little white flower will run wild...I let one stay thinking how cute it was...the next year I was digging out dozens and all their little baby bulbs...It grows on the shady side of the hill behind my house...and there, I just ignore it!
I'm so happy to hear you say you don't like Potentilla. I've been trying to love my shrubs for years and you have just given me permission to rip it out. Fabulous!!
I have one also, yellow flowering. Hate that bugger... it won't die..
Agree! So spindly for me…out it went!
Thanks for permission. My pathetic, spindly, potentilla - that I thought I would love - has seen it’s last spring. I hate it!
I had already decided to remove mine.
When I went the same route, year one in my garden, I was proud until my sister in law said, "Oh, that plant is so everywhere." Ouch.
Rose of Sharon. We had a neighbor that planted it once and it popped up all over our lawn, in our garden beds, even the window well for our basement. Lovely flowers but not worth the trouble!
Oh no not the beautiful day lilies! These are my favs!
Boy Erin you really sparked conversation on this topic. We all have planted things that we wished we had not. You are right that we should only have plants in our garden that we love and get rid of those that we don't and don't feel guilty about it! Gardening should make us happy not regretful.
Lol, the trick is when the ‘other’ gardener in the house has differing tastes than you do on what plants they like.
Oh Erin, I knew immediately what I am never growing again (and I tell my friends not to like some kind of disciple). TRUMPET VINE. My mother planted it more than 50 years ago, tried but never could get it to bloom, so years later I built a pergola, slipped it up over it, and it bloomed, and it grew and grew and grew. Everything under pergola had nasty dying orange spent blooms, it grew vines bigger than my thighs!!! I had a guy with a chain saw take it down to the ground, put vine and stump killer on the stumps, dug up roots as long as 30 feet.. 25 years later it's still coming up literally all over my yard including my cement drive at least 50 feet from where it was!!! Also have to include ornamental oregano...not that pretty and grew enormous in 1 season, that's gone.
I feel your pain, I had one that grew between the hinges of my gate and climbed my arbor, pushed the boards apart and grew underground runners everywhere. I thought I had dug it all out but then it started growing a vine up the side of my two story house climbing the brick. We moved now it's the new owners problem.🙂
Ha ha. Had the same problem. 😂
Trumpet vine is the worse! 15 years later and I still have roots that won't die!😆
This ...... grew it in New Jersey, over a little cottage shed in the middle of my backyard... ruined the roof of the shed with its weight and when I cut it back it popped up all over the yard.....Never again.
Oh you poor thing!! I almost would have been a victim of this same vine, lucky I said no. My MIL had it growing and hers was also a giant stump and grew all along the foundation of the house. It would have took over here I’m sure. They are pretty in bloom and pollinators love them, but those greasy blossoms were a danger on the patio and yes, those shoots came up everywhere.
And OMG-OREGANO! It does take over!
I call day lillies "gas station lillies". Here in Chicago suburbs, all gas stations have the stella d'oro yellow colored daylillies mass planted in beds by the curb! I don't feel like planting and growing it which in my mind is gas station decor😂
Planted in red dyed mulch too. Yuck 🤮
Planted in red dyed mulch too. Yuck 🤮
Me too, gas station flowers.
Although to each is own as I do love the beauty of botanicals in all settings.....
I spent three seasons digging every damn daylilly out of my property! I'm with you.
I’m with you on Daylilies.
The fancy daylilied are not thugs. They are beautiful and they clump not run.
Ditch lilies from a friend. Lol. They are taking over so many other beds. Spearmint too. And oregano. Chives have spread super easy too.
Prize daylilies like Rose F. Fitzgerald take years to get a good clump lol
Most daylilies that sell in the $100+ range for a fan or two will never invade a garden. And their 11" blooms are a wonderful to behold. I also love the small ones like the Siloam range of daylilies. I have miniature ones that grow 4" tall. 😊
They work well on the woods edge.
Totally agree, no day lilies for me!
I usually watch You Tube on the television so don't make or read comments. Today was the exception. Your video sounded like I think, so I found a way to subscribe and found you and your commenters on the computer. What a hoot! I am 78 but we moved into a new build home last year after escaping from Florida, retirement nightmare. I physically have to depend on gardener/ grass cutter help now but the comments sent me down memory road.
From the hill by the driveway in Ohio where I planted English ivy and spent into my late middle age tugging out the mess while dodging snakes and spiders to the gorgeous hydrangeas under my white pines that would not turn blue enough until the last fatal amendment dose which left them dead the next morning. The rose garden was expensively fenced by my husband to the height of 8 to 12 feet that overnight became the deer Olympic training high jump site leaving the roses eaten to the ground by morning. I left my patchy impatiens to my eighty something Dad to care for when we took a vacation. Upon returning the stinkers were two feet high mounds and gorgeous. I laughed so hard at you and your commenters and now I am smiling at all these memories.
This new house is in Mid North Carolina and I am afraid I am heading down the same path. I stopped at one fancy garden center and was trying to buy some substantial sized trees as recommended by our sweet realtor and was informed the garden center would charge extra for delivery to our more rural area. They also wouldn't talk about choices unless we met with the design department which required a $3500.00 budget base to begin with. The next center I approached informed me they do not sell pines, which I am looking for, because "people don't want them". We are in the big forest areas around Chapel Hill/Pittsboro which are mainly Loblolly Pines. My husband and I sat in the car and laughed until tears ran down our face.
Thank you Erin
I adored your comment! 🥰. Gardening: the Agony and the Ectasy......
The deer olympics 😂
Improved day lilies take ages to form a decent clump and are beautiful when they bloom. Huge difference between them and the takeover kind.
Thanks, good to know.
My dad had a patch of Lilly of the valley. He dug, he sprayed, he cussed a lot. Oregon 8a east facing. It loved it there and didn’t want to leave. I have a clump of it that I wisely have not put in the ground.
I have orange daylilies that you just gave me permission to dig out. I was sick of all of the work without much return. I have one that was from my dad, lemon lily, it has a small profile. When it's time to divide, I won't have guilt for getting rid of the excess. Thank you! 😉
A variegated one I have wisely kept in a pot is Bishops weed/Smoke on the mountain. At my other place it took over! My neighbor has it everywhere. I'm not letting that genie out of the bottle again!
I also have a vinca that might just go into a hanging pot or planter. I have very limited space here, and don't want to fight with it here. Another one that I love for texture and contrast is lambs ears. I'm keeping it trimmed, but it may become invasive too.
Thanks for permission! On the morrow the daylilies meet their fate. 😂
Wisteria, never ever again.
Someone just told me about one having to be cut down, off the TOP of their garage 😮
Lemon balm! Put it the middle of a flower garden because I liked the smell. However, that thing spreads like crazy! Also love-in-a-mist. I really like it but it spreads like crazy too. I’m pulling out my daylilies this year just because they no longer “bring me joy” lol plus the deer eat all the blooms!
My lemon balm is in the shade and growing slowly & my dog eats any that comes into the fenced area where she plays. Not sure what I’m supposed to do about it when she passes on.
I have lemon balm in my garden but it’s in a container that’s below ground and that works.
Lemon Basil is wonderful!
@@janeenclark8728trying that this year 👏🏼
I didn’t know how lemon balm spreads. Grew it from seed, someone said it spreads. It LEAPS! It appears way away from original plant.
I love Coreopsis! Most of those native plants spread as they do in nature! I have a bunch of Cup Plant that spreads everywhere too, but I think the good outweighs the bad!
I've never planted it, but I've worked for years to get it out of my garden/yard -- Sumac -- Tree of Heaven. Painful!!!
Oh yes.....In my old house there was a grove of it in the side yard. Although I liked the pretty palmated leaves, no matter how many times I cut them down, they grew back. Trees of Hell.
You can't cut them down, because they will send out a runner and a new one will pop up. You have to completely did it out. Also in NJ those crazy new invasive moths loves the tree of heaven. Trees of heaven are all over the place along the sides of roads. It's an invasive in NJ. And NJ is getting ready to ban those pear trees that bloom in April. They are the most fast spreading thing I have ever seen in trees.
I have a couple of staghorn sumac but as long as I get to the runner in time I don't find it a problem. The worst is when the root stock of an ornamental cherry goes rampaging around. They are impossible. I've been digging them out of this garden for years and years and they are still going. Even if you dig out the original tree the roots are still running around and popping up everywhere.
Sweet Woodruff takes over a bed in a few years, I pulled it all out last year.
I’m not sure what the fern was called but my grandmother had planted some of it in her garden. I took over the house and man I dug those ferns out so many times. Literally once a week (besides winter) for years. No idea what type of fern but it looked like your typical houseplant fern. My current nemesis is a weed but it’s a pain in the butt… violets. I’ve been digging those suckers out everywhere constantly, they drive me insane. And what drives me more insane is when the neighbor doesn’t care at all about his yard so he has them and I’m over here trying to keep every last one out of my yard.
Somehow Star of Bethlehem popped up in my garden. I thought the flowers were so sweet. Within a few years the grassy texture of the leaves were popping up EVERYWHERE; even in the grass. I've been working towards eradicating it for years but it's definitely a work in process.
Cone flower! 1-2-3 strikes you're out. I just can't waste any more time and money on these plants. Love them, but the feeling is not mutual! Loved this video. And I agree. Everyone has the grace to love or dislike a particular plant for whatever reason.
I too love the new echinacea and have spent hundreds of dollars only to have about 6 plants surviving not thriving!!!
If anyone can give us advice on echinacea especially the new bright colored ones!???
The doubles don’t seem to be as hardy as the singles I noticed
I love coneflower especially for the pollinators. My biggest issue is I cannot keep rabbits away from eating them. :(
@@lynnbrowning3872 Too bad I have lots of them, They reseed and are so tough. Hot dry weather and fairly poor soil is my situation in Georgia.
As my garden matures, I realize there are so many better options for my limited space. Day lilies gone...replaced with anemones. Lily of the Valley, which took over and started eating my other plants, gone! Dug up the pips, covered with cardboard & mulch for one season...and it worked. Placed potted up containers on top for one season. Many years ago, planted chocolate mint...we all know how that went! 🙄🤣 Great video, your content is always timely.
I have those fall blooming anemones. They are monsters. Can't get rid of them. They spread and take over.
@@edanaestenes9656 mine spread as well, but I find them easy to dig up, divide and share. When everything is fizzling out late summer, I can always count on these flowers. I planted some shorter varieties last fall hoping they are more under control.
@@edanaestenes9656 Lol, I was thinking the same thing, although they are much prettier and they do flower late
Personally I like to think of daylilies as an ornamental grass that occasionally gets pretty blooms on it.😊
I collect daylilies, and LOVE them, The foliage can get a little ratty late in the summer, but I just groom them. The best thing to do with daylilies is to plant spring flowering bulbs in between them, they bloom before the daylilies get tall, and then the daylilies cover up the dying foliage of the bulbs. Perfect combo. And they do NOT require dividing. The only flower that requires that is iris. Dayliliy, Hosta, can remain in place for decades without the bloom being reduced. The species, Hemerocallis fulva (orange tiger liliy) will spread everywhere, as opposed to the fancy hybrids, which are just clump forming... BUT it has it's purpose!! I am a landscape contractor and plant it all the time, it works beautifully for erosion control on steep banks, or in areas where you need something that is tough as nails, like median islands with no irrigation. For isntance, I planted it for a customer that had a 30 degree slope between his driveway and his neighbors, too steep to mow, only 6 foot wide, completely surrounded by asphalt on all 4 sides. It worked beautifully, held the ground from washing away, choked out all weeds, and is VERY low maintinence. So the species has it's place, just not in a mixed flower bed.
Thank you for saying this. I have a patch of naturalized daylilies on the back of my property. My problem is they do not grow to full size nor do they bloom. I don't know the reason for this (lack of light or nutrition... many things have happened around them over the years) but I dug some up and planted them elsewhere and some are blooming this year. I have a steep ditch that gets overgrown with weeds and briars. I was considering putting the daylilies in the ditch just for the reasons you mentioned. Glad to know that just might work.
They may not require dividing for bloom but the clumps become massive if you don't divide certain ones. I've been a plant collector and gardener for many years and love certain daylilies but some I got rid of due to the space they took up becoming clumps ridiculously large. Vicki
I agree… here in Colorado. I’ve never done anything to my day Lily’s & they’re beautiful. Great tip about planting bulbs in between.
anything in the mint or ajuga family, I will run from, it even moves into your grass and takes over the grass.
I'm with you on the daylilies but for another reason: the deer eat the heck out of them; I so rarely get to see a bloom! I chucked many of them into the compost pile, and they come up, but no blooms. It no longer irritates me quite so much. The same goes for Hostas because the all-night-deer-buffet is unchecked. The other plant I won't grow again is Photinia. I had to cut out 4 really big ones because an aggressive fungus consumed them. Roses have begun to annoy me pretty badly, too; the maintenance, and the creatures that like the eat them, are starting to eclipse the joy I get out of their blooms. (I hate Japanese Beetles!)
Ugh! JAPANESE BEETLES!! They ruin everything! I got a bad skin infection from a bite. We put up traps well away from garden and we can at least go outside without them going down our shirts and in our hair!! I know the traps can attract them, but I’m getting a ton of them as we change full bags out all summer. Stopping the reproduction! I use Milky Spore everywhere also and we have less of them now.
They still find my roses😤 but I did figure out that they don’t attack bush green beans only the pole varieties. Win!
And yes, the deer think day lilies are bon bons. 😠. I have to fence Everything.
I hate Japanese Beetles too. They used to mate like crazy in my raspberry patch during harvest time and then lay their eggs in my lawn. And then the racoons dug patches of the grass to get to the grubs. I started applying beneficial nematodes at the end of April and beginning of October, five years in a row, till I finally got rid of them. But there is no guarantee that they will not find their way back into my backyard.
Clustered bellflower-gorgeous saturated dark purple blooms captivated me, but it had plans to take over the world. It was in cahoots with my lily of the valley I’m fairly sure.😂
My bellflowers always die!
@@LetThePumpkinsFLY Ya, I need to mind mine a bit, helps if you put in at least five of them together. I think they like the room but never every thought they could be a problem eh. Has to be the local climate.
Amen on the daylilies, Erin! !!! Beautiful flowers to admire in SOMEONE ELSE'S garden!
Can totally appreciate your stance. We all have different tastes and what were willing to take care of which is 1000% ok. Taking care of some things may be enjoyable and others not. The more open we are to discuss, the better and maybe come across tips or applications.... Etc.
I have killed every butterfly bush I’ve tried growing. Never again. My mom had a “flower” growing in her beds she called “Grandma’s Flower” because she got it from my dad’s mom (my grandma). She hated it because it was so invasive. My mom gave me a peony several years ago from her yard and who do you think came along for the ride? Grandma’s Flower - ugh! Lo and behold I’m watching this video and the very first “flower” you show is Grandma’s Flower! I got that peony from my mom probably 20 years ago and that %#+$& plant is still haunting me!
I planted a Butterfly bush in my Zone 9b garden 2 years ago All of my other Buddlias thrive AND are very well behaved (if I prune them back hard once a year). BUT this white-flowered variety turned out to be a thug. By then end of its 2nd year it was 7' tall and had expanded into such a huge clump that when I finally removed it, I ended up with 13 good-size bushes. I put them in the "back 40" (no where near my nice gardens) on a large steep hill where I am hoping they will take over, suppress weeds, and bloom like crazy all summer long. If they escape into my neighbors property, their herd of goats will make short work of any potential problem!
Some butterfly bushes are very invasive and will take over native areas, out competing native plants that supply insects for birds and mammals. NOT good!
OMG! I am so on the same Daylily page with you! I have been fighting with myself for YEARS wanting to get rid of mine. Nice in the spring, don’t re-flower all that well and then the foliage just looks like crap. I spend more time pulling out the dead leaves than any other chore. I swear there is some worm or insect which feeds on the roots. I live on the north side of Lake Ontario, Zone 5B (Canada hasn’t updated our heartiness zones in years so who knows, likely a 6B now lol) and the leaves are just coming through nicely…..but their days are numbered! My beds are part sun/shade so I think I will just replace them with some interesting hostas. Love your channel and your common sense approach to gardening!
Here in coastal California near Tomales Bay the climate is mild so plants don't have to fight very hard to survive. I've been gardening in the same spot long enough to have all my mistakes come home to roost, some of them forever. For some plants all it took was one plant to take over three acres of forest. This is the list of plants that I would never plant again:
Geranium x cantabrigianse 'Biokovo'/ Campanula of any kind / white Calla Lillies / Periwinkle any kind / mexican Daisy / violets / English lawn daisies. Not planted by me but invasive in my area in the extreme: Cestris and Ivy of any kind. Thanks for sharing your list and encouragement to get rid of plants that we don't like.
Day lilies, definitely. Last winter, the deer dug up and ate most of the day lilies -- roots and all -- that my great-aunt had planted in our yard fifty years ago, and I was grateful, as I've never had the heart to remove them myself.
Goddess bless the deer.
Great talk and you had me laughing! Mimosa tree from a seed a friend gave me. Living here in Charlotte North Carolina in zone 8a. I chopped down the tree 5 years ago and the roots still come popping up every year! So invasive. Top of my list of regrets!
Ivy and I will never understand people that plant creeping Charlie on purpose!
I have been fighting with creeping Charlie for 5 years now. Why anyone would plant that is beyond me.
Someone way up my street on the opposite side of the road long ago had ivy now the neighborhood has ivy. It pops up in our lawns and flower beds all the time.
Ivy attracts rats to 🐀
Creeping Charlie is my nemesis. Charlie and I have been at war. Sadly, he wins every year.
I’m totally with you on day lillies for pretty much the same reasons as you. I banished them from my garden years ago, but I’m still digging them out!
Please allow me to add 3 more disasters to your list:
1) Leptospermum scoparium (Tea Tree), beautiful in bloom, but an unsightly naked mass of dead gray twigs for most of the year -- ripped it out in 6 months.
2) Passion Flower, beautiful blooms, foliage, and delicious fruit. Without constant hard pruning, curly tendrils led its vines to dominate everything in sight, including neighbor's yards in just a few years.
3) Viola papilionacea (Wood 10:22 Violet), adorable ground cover from local nursery. Little gremlins spread like wildfire, edging out a large radius of all other plants at an alarming rate. YEARS to eradicate, but continues to pop up from time to time. Thank for allowing me to vent.
Agree 101% on daylilies! The blooms do not last long enough to justify the unsightly foliage. It took me forever to dig them all out of my garden.
I grew up in southern Indiana where redbuds ran wild and were the pinnacle of spring. Now in I'm in Minnesota, zone 4b, and am determined to grow cold tolerant varieties to recapture some of that magic. I'm just not ready to give up just yet.
I’m concerned as last fall I planted 3 of forest and flame thrower. Always seen redbuds in other yards. Company said they would grow here in Z5a, WI. I think I read there are native redbuds but never seen them. Hope they live as they are beautiful.
As you know our last two winters have been warm. If they do live I wonder if they will if it turns cold again.
Black eyed Susan’s. I’m digging up the original plant from 5 years ago. Every year, it’s the battle. It’s a bully plant and you can’t control it except in a container. 😊
Here they aren’t hard to pull, but yes, they scatter. The variety I have get mildew depending on where they are located.
Good to know!
One good thing is that the rabbits like to eat them. That is rubecia
You're the best. Love your honesty ❤️
Hahahaha! Good chat. 😂 Definitely agree on all those. I was also sucked into creeping bellflower last year (pretty) so I will keep an eye but see it wildly growing in people’s gardens around here. Been there with daily Lillie’s too. Still trying but agree. A lot for little. Same with Iris. Stunning blooms early (first ones to bloom for me) but then nothing for the majority of the season. And boxwoods. I’m sick of winter kill or blight or whatever only to keep having to replace them. Done with trying to have a nice little boxwood hedge around hydrangeas. I will leave it to the pros. And I inherited Lilly of the valley but moved it to beside my shed and cedars and doesn’t take off at all. Still same little bit 🤷♀️.
Myosotis - Blue Forget-Me-Nots. My Mom gifted me with some (and Lily of the Valley) years ago, and I have NEVER forgotten what a royal pain those plants were. Ajuga and Liriope are the worst thugs ever. Barberry - I wouldn't plant it again if someone paid me to take it. Silver Maples are a very real hazard unless you're planting them out in the back forty so they won't land on your roof or try to enter your sewer lines and destroy your basement. Muscari Grape Hyacinth - once you've planted it, it's there forever.
I planted Japanese anemone and in just a single season it has spread from one p,ate to about thirty.
Interesting. I have grape hyacinth from a neighbor and like it but now feel warned.
💯 re: Barberry. That is a devil plant I’m sure.
There are two types of liriope. You need to get the clumping kind.
Oh no! I just planted forget me nots! This fall I was gathering other flower seeds and realized that there were seeds clinging to my sleeve-Ugh! I bet those are the seed aren’t they? That’s why they have the name I bet. We will see if they return-scared.
Lol, silver maples-Big Hell No! My sister had one and lifted their driveway and sidewalk and had to Shovel the whirligigs. And it was feet from foundation so good they cut it down.
We had a lilac get into sewer lines.
Oh, and grape hyacinths-just get a vole and they will be gone 😅but then you will have to get rat trap and peanut butter to get the voles😅
And I was picked one too many times by barberry.
And OMG-Bugleweed/Ajuga! I Never planted it! It just showed up and when I seen how it was clearing out thick turf grass my eyes got Wide 😮-I’m not sure but I think I got it all. Phew! 😮💨
Ohhh 😔 I’ve been trying to seed Forgets and they won’t take. I gave up and installed Brunnera plants. I guess I dodged a bullet? I have 4 silver maples planted by previous owner. WHY?!!! 😭 3 are in my backyard and too costly to have taken down. Grass won’t grow beneath them so we’ve mulched the entire HUGE area and put in a gravel patio. I’ve planted ajuga and Ivy Gold Child beneath them. What else could I do? I love how the ivy climbs the trees, very slowly, and it’s not a terror like Boston Ivy. I have Spanish bluebells carpeting the soil under them now, soon to be coming into bloom. I think most plants (but not all - Tree of Heaven I’m talking to YOU) have their place.
I guess it's all relative. Growing plants in the far north has many challenges, so we tend to appreciate plants for a variety of reasons. Beauty is only one of them. #1: If it survives here, it needs to be considered! That being said, here is a list of plants that I made the mistake of planting and have spent years eradicating: Goutweed, aka Bishop's weed. It's super invasive, thrives in ANY condition and it takes forever to totally eradicate it, even in my area, and that's saying a lot! Lily of the valley, I love the look and scent, but it's also too invasive, and almost impossible to get rid of. Wild orange daylilies, aka ditch lilies - made the mistake of accepting a box of tubers from someone digging up their back yard. (Should have seen the red flags there) Next to impossible to get rid of. I love the other daylilies though, and have 100s of them. To me, they're worth the effort because I've hybridizied many of these myself for plants that can survive our harsh winters and bloom well in my environment. Coneflower: love it. By the time it looks bad, the snow is flying, so don't care. Potentillas: I have some because it's a shrub that survives our winters. I use them as a means to trap additional snow on my flower gardens in winter, thus adding protection for the perennials I do value. Creeping thyme: planted some 30 years ago, and have been trying to get rid of it ever since. Others I don't love: Golden Sedum, Johnny jump ups, portulaca, calendula. They self sow too freely.
Similar climate and also do rely on daylily and coneflowers. I did johnny jump up and he will jump up and pop up all over.
I was in the same thought-if it can survive this sandy severe drought area it gets a place. Well I’ve mentioned in comments my experiences, but I do like moss roses and was surprised they made a home in my veg garden.
That golden sedum sounds like what was called ‘Steppables’ here and it’s almost impossible to get out of the lawn. It’s hideous. And I’m hoping the calendula does come back as it really survives frost better than marigolds and these kind of plants are easy to remove because they spread by seed. Those other things with rhizomes are awful.
For those of you who love daylilies or have a ton of them on your property, the flower buds are edible and used in Chinese cooking (golden needles).
I had a volunteer Redbud (Cersis canadensis) that I had to take out because it was growing right next to my foundation. I had pure clay soil with no organics in it. The first year the redbud grew 3 ft from a seed and the second year it grew 9 ft! I had a similar experience with black walnut. I live in western Kentucky USDA Zone 7.
It was incredible to hear you talk about daylilies! I *finally dug out the last few last spring and this year I am just so relieved that they are not there anymore - so much green and not enough flower - I felt guilty but I tossed over 20 plants. Then there’s the lily of the valley - ugh. I have hauled away more square footage of root and soil and have so much more to go - they are cute yes, but thugs and overtake everything. Liberating video. Thank you. The little blue flower one… well they have been in the garden for over 20 years - I remember the Mother’s Day Sunday that I lovingly brought my first baby plant home. What an invader haha. Slow and steady should win but they are clingers for sure.
Siberian Iris. I was given a single tiny tuber by a "friend" and three years later it's absolutely massive, crowding out all other perennials anywhere near it. I'm sure it's lovely where it has space to roam, but my small garden is not the place for it. Also Silene Vulgaris, inherited a garden where it was planted and have been battling it for years.
Got rid of mine last summer for just reason. It’s a lot of work to divide these. Bearded iris are only ones I will grow as they are easily controlled and divided.
Most of the plants I will never grow again arrived in my garden as gifts. Like you, I was starting my gardening journey and happy to have any and all plants- especially free ones! Not so 'free' once you add up the hours of digging, pulling, and cursing these gifts! My list includes: Clustered Bellflower; Fairy Thimbles; Loosestrife; Lamium; and Cornflower. I've also learned the lesson to get rid of plants plagued with disease or pests, or plants that I don't love (still working on this!) Not all the thugs in my garden were gifts though... I have bought many unruly plants. The moment I see an unwanted wandering habit, out they go - to the city compost bin. These are not pass along plants!
Pretty much agree with all. I only plant Zagreb Coreopsis, ALL the others stink! They die, they spread, they look awful. Zagreb is a tried and true cultivar. Hate Potentilla. I use St Johns Wort in my designs instead. I'm a huge daylily fan but you are so right. If you don't like a plant, don't have it!! Some plants I won't grow: Sedum (we have a wilt disease in Illinois soils that will wipe them out, they flop, they are ugly), Roses. Yes I said it. PITB!!! The Japanese beetles attack them 24/7 and I'm tired of trying to keep blooms on so I ripped them all out. Buddleia. Doesn't survive our winters and I'm done replanting every year. Hellebores. Hate them lol! All their flowers point down and it's like the plant is giving me the cold shoulder. Don't understand the hype AT ALL! Salvia and Cat's Pajamas catmint. I no longer have any Salvia and ripped out the one insanely expensive CP catmint because they bloomed for a couple weeks and then done. Gotta do better than that in my yard! I have Walker's Low and love every single day of blooms it gives me without fail, alllll season long! That's most of them. Thankfully there are millions I do love and enjoy in the garden!!
Walkers low is a real powerhouse. I’ve had the same experience with cats pajamas, and any small catmint varieties
OMG YES! Lilly of the valley I will Never Grow again! I planted a small bunch under a pine tree and it completely spread under neath the entire pine tree area (about a 15ft circle)! it chocked out everything else I had planted under the tree. A couple years ago my husband and I decided it was time to tackle the removal of them. WHAT A JOB! took us hours to dig them out and another year or two of pulling every spring of the ones that kept showing up at random. I think now I'm finally rid of them! 🤞Never again! LOL Love your channel and plant info and advice as I live near your area in the country and only about a mile from the lake (and have many deer in my area as well) so we garden in the same Zone.
I actually bought Chameleon plant at a garden center 😳 After seeing it taking over my garden bed the next year, I then spent 5 getting rid of it🤨 IYKYK
Oh yeah! That’s one I wish they wouldn’t sell at garden centers.
Ditto! Amazed that they actually still sell it at the garden center! Not sure it is even possible to get rid of it.
Me too, I am on year 10 of trying to get rid of it. Horrible plant.
The smell of it makes me so nauseous. It worked wonders for a relative who gardened on a rocky slope, but, man, it STANK!
Have you had any luck getting rid of it? I thought I did after 5 years of working at it, but it is up again! I don’t like the pachysandra and lily of the valley taking over, but I really just have no appreciation for Crape Myrtle. I just don’t like it.
Virginia Creeper. The homeowner before us planted it along our fence, which it completely ruined, and the fencing company took a full extra day to replace our fence because the roots were so woody and thick several feet down. I went to the mattresses fighting back volunteers for years before and since, and they still pop up 5 years on. I hate it with the heat of a thousand suns.
I don't know where it came from but that and ivy are back in the the woods that is on my side of the subdivision. For some dang reason, I assumed the creeper was poison ivy until I looked it up last year on Google Lens. Every year since putting fence up and the later installing garden beds, every summer it's a war between me and the vines creeping under the fence. The creeper is up in a tree in the woods but the tree and the creeper hang over the top of the fence.
Virginia creeper became such a Japanese beetle magnet. I had to rip it out. Not sad about that. 😆
But that fall color!!😂😂😂
It could have been “planted” by birds instead of the previous homeowner
Lol, I think I love it as much a you hate it. I have it growing through a long ratty old hedge and for most of the year it's completely gorgeous.
And, like all gardeners, the ever open-to-future-possibilities of, "probably never". We're such optimists. 😆
I Really appreciated this video cuz it made me look around at my garden and see my various plants and groupings with a some objectivity--unusual for me. Potentilla on your list was the one that surprised me as it is native and a host for some pollinators. I have quite a few. Now, as a result of your video, I find that I agree with you. Potentillas are not a pretty plant--flowers are small and foliage is non descript. At this time of year, my many potentillas--and they're in the front yard--are actually quite unsightly. And they have only one season of the year that's at all attractive and/or interesting--and really not so much of either. Result: I'm moving a a bunch of them to the backyard. We'll let the pollinators find them back there. Thanks for a very good video, Erin. It opened my eyes! 😊😊😊
Rose of sharon re seeds everywhere, Solomon seal is a thug and ditch/ tiger lillies never die and stop blooming after so many years in the same spot!
I have been pulling out Rose of Sharon that came from my neighbor's yard for 30 years!!!!
Ohh, good to know. Was about to buy a pretty one
Only double Rose of Sharon for me!
My hellebores are crowding out my Lily of the Valley, which never bloomed well anyway.
Goutweed! Ground Elder…same thing new gardener filling in from grams garden…she warned me…20 years later! Can’t believe nurseries sell it as a ground over around here! On the border with creeping Jenny…smothered out good portion of my purple thyme ground cover, but such a stunner in spring .
Bellflower has been my nemesis for years! I’ve been down the artemisia and lily of the valley paths too! I think when we are young we think we can handle an invasive….and we can for 2 years….then the nightmare. I’ve read that the pink lily of the valley does not spread like the white. I had some gooseneck loosestrife as well…still digging it now and then. As for your not being able to grow red bud…I had mine taken down finally last year. It had a lot of weather damage over the years, but the shoots that would pop up from the seed heads were a real problem. They were coming up everywhere. Nuisance. Done with it…..finally. I planted mint in the ground at first as well. Now it lives in pots. I hack the roots back every spring. It gets pot bound quickly. Survives my winters….zone 6b in New England. We’ve all fallen for that “pretty” plant at the nursery…..probably more than once. Great info in this video, Erin. 🥰
Hi Erin. I'm Robyn, I garden in NJ 7b. I was gifted a "weed" and that weed is on your list DAYLILY! The person that gave it to me a lovely Gardner, didn't know what kind of daylily it was. I graciously accepted grew it in a pot till it was big enough that I can divide it for a couple years. I research a little bit on how to take care of daylilies it didn't seem that high maintenance. I noticed last summer something growing along the lawn edge that looked very similar to a young daylily it was almost 3 feet away from the clump of daylily! Then in there I did hard research and I found that what I have is called a ditch Lily! I started digging them up last Fall. I've given some away told the person "buyer beware" 😈 they still accepted it but a lot of them I'm sorry I just threw in the trash. I put them in a double plastic bag and threw it in the trash. I still have some more but I know for the next few years I'm gonna be digging them up it's hard to get those little potato looking yam roots!
I could not agree more on all of your choices. In fact, my Redbud is getting the boot. Although I was told it would do well in Colorado, (5b/6a) I now have come to the conclusion that our local tree nursery just wanted to sell me a tree. I have grown or my next door neighbor has grown nearly every variety you listed. We both have gotten rid of them as recently as last week. I still see her and her husband digging to China on the Lilies of the Valley. We always seem to feel it is somehow sacrilegious to get rid of plants. I am looking at 2024 much differently. Add creeping buttercups to the list.
I call those bellflowers ladybells, and actually brought them from a field to my garden-I will have them forever! I spend a lot of time digging their seedlings out of my gardens!! The lady I garden for has lily of the valley, and we have tried covering with landscape fabric, digging, and propane torching them. Thought we succeeded with the torching, but they just took a little breather and came right back!
I love your honesty - I loathe buddleja apart from for the very short time it flowers for me. I inherited it and feel that it is somehow wasteful to remove it but I am now going to do so as it depresses me all Winter with its sticky scraggly form and half deciduous nature.I had to laugh though to hear of your desire to be rid of lily of the valley and campanula, both of which I struggle to grow here in Australia. I even go out at night to put ice cubes around the lily of the valley to try to coax it to flower! And the campanula has a special cage to protect it from voracious possums and wallabies, none of which eat my potentilla here incidentally! It is so interesting to hear what thrives and becomes weedy in different climates - thankyou.
Lily of the valley has a beautiful fragrance...
I really love the smell of them. Do you think they are safe to plant in a pot and put on a cement driveway?
@@jcbfree absolutely....the fragrance "Miss Dior" comes from Lily if the valley. I live in a high rise and grow them.
I live in Europe and had never any problems with them. They were in a bed with a cement rim on all sides between the driveway and the house. I used the lilies of the valley as ground cover under hydrangeas so I could have flowers early and later on the hydrangeas took over.
Difficult to generalize because each plant, each situation and each need is different, but unless you like to have a collection of different plants and instead need just to green up a difficult spot, a thuggish plant can be a solution.
I personally have given up growing plants that need coddling and cosseting. Self seeders and spreaders that do all the work by themselves and just need some containment once in a while are my favorite. 😅
Oh man Erin!! I feel the same way about day lilies. The deer eat mine too. So, I’m getting rid of them this year, you have motivated me.
Yes beware when people "gift" you plants. I have pulled out snow on the mountain for many years as well as lily of the valley. Lamium horrible spreader. I planted it on a hillside and that was a huge mistake trying to eradicate it. I spent 2 years trying to remove the plain old day lilies. Ugh! Ferns spread by rhizomes. Nope! We all live and learn when it comes to plants. I have now done more homework before planting things. Thanks Erin.
If I stopped yanking maple saplings out I would be living in a dark maple forest because of the seed production of one mature tree. If I stopped cutting wisteria the maple forest would be woven through with wisteria vine. The blackberry and the honeysuckle wouldn't care, they would find a way, and so would the bamboo which just grows as tall as it has to, which now that I think of it is also what the cherry laurel does.
I've lived every one of these. The maple tree is gone now, but I'm pulling up oak seedlings from a tree two houses away. I've got wisteria under control, but almost no flowers if it can't have it's own way. I completely removed honeysuckle, but it took years of persistence, the same with bamboo; years of watching & pulling out every shoot, but I won. Cherry laurel took over a third of my yard, but it's gone now & I'm starting over.
@@dougr.2245 I have the impression that jays spread acorns. I get oaks all along a fence and close to hedges and under trees. Cherry laurel turns out to burn very well in the fireplace and it is actually quite strong and durable. I heard that the way to get rid of the bamboo was to let the stalk grow and when it unfurls its leaves cut it down to the ground. If you just cut the shoot when it's first visible there will still be a lot of energy left in the root to regrow.
@@obyvatel I've been burning the cherry laurel all winter. You are right, it's good firewood. To get rid of bamboo, I cut it all to the ground after it started growing in spring. Shoots inevitably appeared & I pulled them out (not just cut the top) as deep as I could without killing myself for another two years. Without nourishment the underground runners eventually died off. By the third spring there were almost no shoots & the few that tried were easily removed. Now the area is replanted as a flower bed.
Erin, after 20 years of gardening for other folks, I've come to the same conclusion. I'm with you 100% on every one of these. My worst experience was with the dreaded Lily of the Valley. I grew up loving it in my mom's garden, oh the scent! But in later years, I worked on a property where Lily of the Valley had probably been planted 40 years before on the edge of a 20 x 40' garden bed. Over time, it subtly took over, growing at the feet of all the other plants. We spent a few hours one day "double digging" it out before realizing how fruitless our efforts were. It would have taken us weeks to dig it all out! Got a small backhoe the next day and removed everything 12-14" down. After 2 weeks, there were a still a few pieces popping back up. We took them up, brought in new garden soil and finally were able to start a new garden planting. Ugh, so much energy spent.
I managed to pull out most of the lily of the valley in my peony bed, though it's impossible to get everything out growing in between the peony shoots. I just snap off the stems when I see them. But it's completely taken over my front yard. I love the scent as much as anyone, but by late spring/early summer, all the leaves succumb to some kind of disease and end up looking brown and ugly. It's competing with a ton of ground elder that is much, much worse in terms of spread and difficulty to remove. I've just about given up on my front yard, to be honest.
Do either of you know if Lily of the Valley is in a pot, it'll behave? I have some, and now I'm thinking maybe I should reconsider.
@@DanaBarbieri I've actually moved some to a pot, and they rebloom beautifully every year with very minimal care. Leaves stay nice and green over the season too, unlike those in my front yard which tend to succumb to some fungal wilt by midsummer. So yes, I would recommend doing this if you want the benefit of their fragrance without the hassle of their spread.
Beware the friend, neighbor, relative that presents you with a 'gift' from their garden. Ask yourself why are they are sharing it and why it was so easy for them to propagate!
I agree, but I also ask myself, "why do neighbours or friends give away problem plants, just why"?
Un grand classique de la fausse generosité ! Cela me rappelle ma voisine qui me disait sans mauvaise conscience aucune quand elle me proposait ses rhysomes de Canna :" J'allais le jeter mais si vous le voulez... "
Yes,yes and yes 😊
I have shared many iris, hostas, and daffodil bulbs. Why? Because they grow well for me and every few years I divide them and share them with my friends. Not everyone is 'out to get you'.
@@cmnr8487 Yes obviously there are exceptions. You misinterpreted the comment. Beware means to be cautious. Neighbors should be alert to negative consequences of 'gift' plants and know what you're getting before planting. Everyone would agree with that including you.
I have been fighting with the Bellflower (weed ) for years! I dig the roots up, but they always come back! I agree with you on Lilly of the Valley! They came with the house when we bought it! When I dug them up their roots were like concrete! They still pop up! I have always hated the Potentilla bush as well! I rarely see them on display where they don't look half dead! So, far I agree with you on most everything! I just bought a Redbud tree last year... I know they can be hard to grow! When it dies I am am done! Because of your video with Roy on native plants I will be trying to incorporate more natives into my yard! So, thank you!
Yellow flag iris (Iris pseudacorus). When I dug my first pond, a friend gave me this as a present. It looks gorgeous for 2 weeks in spring - the rest of the year not so much. And it spreads! The rhizomes raft across deep water, creating a mat from which its feeder roots dangle down. 3 years later, the pond had very few other plants. Another 3 years of neglect, and we had to cut the iris out with a chainsaw. Two people holding the rhizomes up with pitch forks, and one person operating the chain saw, trying to avoid cutting the liner. I threw all the bits into s shrubbery with vigorous thuggish evergreen shrubs and ivy, thinking that the roots would dry out and die. Not a bit of it. Iris pseudacorus is a water plant, but 4 years later it is still growing in this shrubbery, its yellow flowers peeping out each spring. At least it struggling too much on dry land to spread now.
I like this one but keep it away from water. Carefree and erect foliage, close to zero maintenance.
@@andrewgraves4026 I agree about it's carefree and zero maintenance contribution as a land plant. Its flowers brighten the shrubbery every spring. As you say - as long as you keep it away from water.
Yup, here in Ireland the advisory board are trying to get us farmers to grow an acre of them as a filter bed. I'm saying absolutely no way. I have a big beautiful pond full of plants and I'm not having it. Also, even now I have to pull the odd one out of the garden. Imagine having a load of them right next to the garden. I have offered to plant five large weeping willows instead so I'm waiting to hear back, but, I'll probably plant them anyway just because they are beautiful and I can lol.
Hydrangea macrophylla-rarely blooms and a deer magnet
Lilies-Red Lily Beetle has taken control over them
Peonies-Every year a huge rain knocks them down just when they are in their prime one week bloom span. Then they get powdery mildew
Try Itoh peonies! They don't flop and are just as beautiful.
Carolina Jessamine!!!! Crepe Myrtles!!!! Creeping loriope grass!!!! My three clumps of dailies are well behaved. They help hold soil on my sloped yard. But hydrangeas are my absolute favorite. And after seeing your Bobo hydrangeas I had to order a couple for myself. We shall see. 😎✌🏻
OMG!!! Same thing for me with bellflower! Gifted to me while gardening in difficult mountain area, and how happy when it lived! A few years later, after digging those “white carrot” roots and finding that wretched plant in every location over 2 acres, I screamed when I saw them. Moved back to southern Wisconsin!!! I’m on your side!!!
Daylilies, potentilla also on my verboten list!!!! No redeeming value for me either.
Great video!!!
We are totally on the same page with almost all of this list. When I moved into our new house, I dug up the daylilies as soon as I saw them emerging (given how much they had spread, I suspect they were the orange “ditch lily” ones). I would never plant Lily of the Valley, but some previous owner planted it, but they did so in a very smart place-it is on the north side of my house and it is completely walled off by a concrete sidewalk and the foundation of the house. So, I get to enjoy it when it is in bloom without having to manage its spread. It isn’t on your list but I did have to pull up snow on the mountain and sift through soil a couple of times to get rid of that. That seems to have been successful (it was only in a small area). I also saw a couple of creeping bellflower plants and evidence that they had reseeded the previous season. So, I had to do a lot of soil sifting there as well and dig up a peony to extract some that was enmeshed in the roots. I haven’t seen evidence of that in a few years. 🤞🏼
Star of Bethlehem bulbs are one of my biggest nemesis. I've given up in one garden. I let it come up, bloom and then it disappears until next year.
Second, spider wort. I'm down to one clump, but it pops up in areas that aren't even close to the mother plant.
I agree, every gardener has their own list!! Maryland, Zone 7.
Just when I thought I mentioned all the problematic plants you bring up Spiderwort! Fully agree!
My neighbors planted bamboo almost 40 years ago and it has been a constant battle since we moved here over 30 years ago. Our township actually just sited them because it falls into the road every time we have heavy rain or snow. It is also a tick magnet. Bamboo should be banned.
Hi Erin! I ripped out most of my daylilies last season, and have a few more to move out this year. Not only does the foliage get unsightly, but also, the deer love them which means its hard to keep them going until blooming. While I can appreciate their beauty, and also spent a bit of money on pretty varieties, I made peace with the decision to pull them out. I will continue to pass them along to other gardeners who might enjoy them more. I have a couple more plants I can add to this list. Take care! -Steph 🌱