Midweek with Mark - "Well-mannered Replacements for Garden Thugs"
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- Опубліковано 26 лип 2024
- Presented by Mark Weathington, Director, and Blake Wentley, Education Assistant, JC Raulston Arboretum on December 13, 2023.
Just because a plant isn't native, doesn't mean it will swallow your landscape whole; and just because it is native, doesn't mean it won't! If you're looking maximize the diversity of your landscape and replace those bullies that outcompete everything else, there are plenty of plants that will live up to your expectations for functionality, while humbly maintaining their place in your garden-without spreading. Join us for this Midweek with Mark where our Director, Mark, will spotlight some of the nicest well-mannered replacements, both native and exotic, for some of our most familiar garden thugs!
This program was originally streamed live online. Tune into our midweek program live on Zoom, Wednesdays at 3:00pm eastern time. Here's the link: jcra.ncsu.edu/midweek/ - Розваги
Thank you for sharing that story about the waxwing and nandina berries. Too many people are native snobs, not realizing that diversity is critical for the ecosystem health than exclusivity can ever achieve.
I work a normal 9-5 so can’t attend any of your events. Really glad you’re putting these recordings up. I watch them and some multiple times.
Great program! Thanks for learned a lot
Great suggestion on planting the long term solution at same time of planting Leland cypress for quick screen. Wish my neighbor had approached it that way
Pairing Semania 'Evita' with Primula sieboldii seems like a great idea.
Wisteria is too crazy!
Here in Oregon zone 8b I have had many fights with aggressive plants. As I have matured along side my garden I try to keep maintenance in mind with every plant I buy. If in doubt I try it in a pot or put in a more casual area. No matter, there is always a surprise thug.
The deer keep my Japanese anemones from getting out of control 😂
Funny about the hellebores…I wish they’d take over. I have had a patch of just a few plants for years. They do set seeds. The deer eat them if I don’t protect them and I think leaving the leaves from fall must tamp down any potential for seedlings to take root. Maybe leaving the leaves is one way to fight aggressive plants!
If you want the gulf fritillaries butterflies plant passion flower/fruit.
Some thugs can be removed, but the really bad ones are murder to remove, am trying to remove lilies of the valley that keeps coming up in my clematis... I will have to sacrifice the clematis if I can't eventually get a handle on this upcoming year (of many)
Cleome is a thug in my garden. The only way I found to get it to play nice is remove all seedlings and plant it out at least a month later than everything else. This way it can't get big enough or thorny enough, to take over.
I have red flowering quince that have underperformed and never spread an inch!
I don't find any of these thugs objectionable because it's so hard to keep the weaker ones alive! Only thing I regret introducing are mints and English ivy! Yikes!!!!
Cyclamen are beautiful but I haven't been able to get them to grow!
I've had no trouble growing C. heterifolium and coum in the Triad. They want to be dry mid-summer, but otherwise seem to like water. Rare for anything to eat them. IMHO, they like deciduous shade so that the get winter sun but shade in September and May when it is warm.
Tradescanthia (not spelled right) It’s beautiful BUT it seeds out everywhere. It comes up IN other plants & chokes them out. 3 years of trying to rid myself of it!
Sweet woodruff is too aggressive
Depends on where it is. I have some in my VERY dry shade garden in zone 6 and the tough conditions keep it in check. I’m actually grateful for its vigor because not much else wants to grow well and look good all season in this area.
Chameleon plant! I don't hate much. But I do hate chameleon plant.
Oriental Wisteria gets a pass for the flowers. But I still advise non- gardeners against it. Pruning marathon every year....
Who needs Chameleon plant when there's Trachelospermum asiaticum 'Hatsuyuki'; or Wisteria sinensis when there's W. frutescens?
@@jcraulstonarb Indeed. But once it's escaped....
Literally I had a pot sitting on the ground and the roots grew out into the soil before I had any idea how annoying it was ... That lovely leaf color... so interesting. Ugh
Literally was the same story here with variegated porcelain berry vines. I thought they were great ornamental vines.
All well before the problems started with them all over the north east.... If we only knew.
My ardisias have taken a long time to get going and some of the variegated ones revert to the straight green...at least mine did... also,,,,the Lilly of the valley planted in moisture seem to grow slowly...i am done with helebores and have been for several years ..