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 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.
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
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...
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
@@taskforce505 I bought a bamboo that's supposed to be clumping but after a few years it started spreading. I controlled by trenching around it and adding a 4 ft barrier but it could still grow thru gaps. It can be controlled by digging for stragglers every year. It's a good workout. Also need a heavy duty spade.
MY mother in law hates bamboo. She fought it for years ! I tried to get her to plant some leeland cyprys trees to combat it. She said no those were way too big. I love the huge trees. She suffered with that bamboo late in her life. It worried the crap out of her.
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.
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.
My plant "enemy" is ground ivy. It started popping up about 8 years ago. Now, I fight it in every bed. It has done a nice job of covering the bare, shady spot, though.
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.
We moved to southeast Texas 5 years ago and we have trumpet vine..... I have a flower bed and veggie garden far, far, FAR away from the vine and that dumb thing is constantly coming up and is EXTREMELY hard to pull up. I had no clue that shoots could even travel that far! Ugh.
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.
We have bamboo in the garden but my husband planted it in a large tub in a hole then concrete around it. Been in the garden for a few years and we love it
Please note I took out two 24 year old wisteria trees. We took out two large root balls and never imagined some of the legs coming off the main rootballs would send up shoots. We are having a constant battle with new shoots because some of Leggy roots went under a cement patio we can't access.
I agree on Wisteria and the Trumpet Vine. I was unable to control and restrain mine from going crazy. Even in bone dry TX soil these plants grew 3 feet a DAY. I've never seen anything like it. It scared me... I cut them all down to the ground. Of course new plants are popping out but I can manage those.
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.
Very informative. Thank you! Woe to those who plant Nandina and English Ivy. I have used Crossbow herbicide in attempt to beat it back, but it is a constant, exhausting, every year battle in an urban setting. Nandina is ugly, smells like cat pee when trimmed, is a member of the bamboo family, will send root systems over 20, 30, 40 feet away from the original plant to pop up above the soil, and I have to trim it every 2 or 3 weeks. VERY difficult to uproot or poison to kill. It came with our house as did the native English Ivy that is choking the life out of very mature hardwood trees (arborists are expensive & so are the large limbs it causes to fall), invading the neighbors', and NOTHING seems to kill it. Crossbow wounds it above ground, but the root systems underground survive. The root systems of English Ivy and Nandina are tenacious, pernicious. A friend planted bamboo around/against her house to help with moisture against the house foundation. It began growing into and under the foundation. She hired a crew to dig over 6 feet into the ground around her foundation to remove the bamboo and could not afford the money to keep doing it. I cringe every time I see bamboo in cute, decorative planters for sale at a grocery store or nursery. Avoid it like it is a plague to your yard, because it is.
NEVER plant the tall weed grasses that are so very popular right now. If they're not in a concert boarder they will take over and nothing kills them. They also spread from the dry seeds that are so lightweight they fly blocks away.
We laugh when we see bamboo. My daughter was 6 and stopped by a neighbors house to thank him for planting it for the pandas. He said it might take a while.. She is 18 now and when he sees her he mentions he's still waiting.
I have wisteria that I just plopped in the middle of the yard when I first moved in. It’s grown up a piece of rebar and there it remains, small and well-behaved. I was considering moving closer to the forest line. Glad to have discovered this video.
I totally agree with wisteria, My 75 year old aunt planted it about 20 years ago, I have taken over the house and 3 years later still trying to kill it out. will probably end up taken a road torch to it. I find clematis to be a much better substituite
I had issues at old house with Trumpet vines that neighbor opposite grew them in their back yard by our share fence. Somehow seem they love to get sun from my side so they grew crazy and spread everywhere and took over my entire backyard! I don’t know how to kill this plants so I gave up and moved! The only benefit of trumpet vines is attract the humming birds but that’s it, I just hang hummingbird feeder in my new place and they came, way better to deal with crazy trumpet vines again.
Moved into our home last August and I am battling Wisteria as we speak! Planted on our brick fence and our neighbors. It is a complete nightmare!!! It chokes out everything and I have learned it will have to be constantly maintained! I don't think it's ever been cut back. Been in the yard cutting for two weeks now!
I am working on getting rid of a bunch of trumpet vine and Holly that has been put in the garden. We inherited it… We didn’t put it there! It is indeed very crazy, but we’re getting there. The Halle… Not so much trumpet vine a little easier.
good list and video. bamboo truly does suck. i used to live next door to a guy whose entire back yard was filled with it. some of the trunks were a foot in diameter. it was weird. but that stuff would grow underneath the fence and into my yard. the whole underneath half of my yard next to his was filled with twining bamboo roots about a foot deep. they run like snakes through the dirt. they were always coming up and i had to spend every spring cutting it out of my yard. on the flip side, that power pole looks better with green on it. but no, i wouldn't allow creeper or trumpet vine in my yard. a climbing hydrangea would look better on that pole anyways :).
Orange day lilies!!! I inherited a small flower garden the last renter planted just before she moved. The day lilies totally overtook the garden and spread into the grass. I’ve tried boiling water, roundup, and pulling them out but they keep coming back and spreading! This year I am digging out the entire garden area to remove the tubers and roots but I can’t dig out the entire lawn! I am going to cover the garden with cardboard and mulch but I’m afraid they will come through it. And what about the lawn?? If anyone has had success with this please tell me what you have done. It makes me cry.
Depends on where you lie, too. Virginia Creeper in western NY grows slowly, it's taken mine 5 years to start looking like something, and it doesn't grow well under trees and in any shaded area. Climate makes a HUGE difference in what to plant.
Then that's not winter creeper I killed all our winter creeper vines pulled then put in the fire so they ain't growing back not even from a broken piece
I have English ivy runners all through my yard and gardens from my neighbor and it looks horrible on their fence and it has broken the fence at the back of my property. I have ivy from my other neighbor which is a huge problem. Gout weed and Lily of the Valley also from neighbours and also a big problem.Periwinkle also a huge problem in my area.
Wisteria was here when we came to live out here in N M,it is so Aggressive,the Blooms and it's Fragrance is Wonderful.We cut it back,it came back with a Vengeance, sent out all these Runners that ended up at the end of the Patio 10 ft from the Plant,
Rice paper plant. Beautiful in the jungle or in remote part of enormous garden, or in a very very large pots (where I have two). I love them but plant them and they will take over the landscape and come up in places you won't believe. Cutting them off at the root doesn't stop even more coming up. Acanthus is another plant that's difficult to dig out. Leave some root behind and it will pop up somewhere you don't want.
Check with your state extension service to see what plants are outlawed in your state. In Massachusetts burning bush, some barberry, myrtle(periwinkle) are a few.
English Ivy is a big one in the Pacific Northwest. It loves to climb Douglas firs. There are numerous dead snags that you'd swear were alive because they're choked with Hedera.
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I planted a lovely golden bamboo in the garden of my townhouse in Kensington London UK. It had a nice thick straight lovely clear golden culm and bright light green small feathery leaves on the top. No shaping necessary and no cleaning the lower culms. It was so well behaved, a clumper I had no problems at all. Slow growing as can be. One day I overheard the neighbour behind the fence telling a friend that they had no problem with the bamboo and rather liked its wild feel and that it was me who had planted it. So I took a ladder and looked over the high fence next day to see what she was talking about and to my shock and horror the entire row of houses six a side also had my bamboo, even thicker culmed than mine!!! It had escaped under the fence and tore down the entire row of gardens. Truly incredible. It appears it was my solid concrete courtyard that I had tiled over with something more attractive that kept it so nice and polite in my own garden but over the fence it was able to go stark raving mad. Just a well we moved to Asia a few months later or I'm sure someone would've decided to take me to court to remove all of it. It did look kind of lovely though, a lush urban jungle of bright yellow bamboo. The kitties loved playing in it. Dont believe anyone there are no hardy clumpers, only tropical ones which are truly clumping and well behaved. The hardy ones spread and spread some slower than others but they spread.......
Yes, yes, yes to bamboo and wisteria! Our neighbors have bamboo that crept into the corner of our back yard while we both worked two jobs for years. Last year Covid gave us several months at home and we started digging it up to reclaim the yard. We've gotten most of it out, except for four or five clumps. And the house had wisteria on the wall when we moved in. It's between the steps and the wall and we can't dig it out. All I can do is cut it and I do use a herbicide on it; however, it comes up all over the yard and has to be dug out. The woods behind our house has trumpet vine and it's always creeping into our yard. And Virginia creeper--yes, birds brought it to us a few years ago and it's attractive but way too vigorous.
My neighbor uses garden services and they bring all kinds of weeds from different lawns. If Virginia creeper is anything like Virginia Buttonweed then heaven forbid. It's a constant war.
I love bamboo and the relatively non-invasive version of wisteria. I am in N Georgia, zone 7a. Here we have crazy invasive plants that will take over. I have bamboo and wisteria and find them easy to control by comparison. I am however out in my garden nearly every day. Every area is different. Here in N GA, the following are the menace to many gardens here... Mimosa, privet, sweetgum, wild thorny blackberry, pine, crepe myrtle, and poison ivy. Privet pops up everywhere and once sweetgum gets to about a foot and a half tall you need a hoist to pull it out. You can cut it below the soil line and it just grows back stronger. I do have running bamboo and my variety is a slow grower. The man I bought it from has had a beautiful patch about 30' x 15' for 35 years and told me it never became invasive. This variety I have does not grow back when you mow or clip off new shoots. My other neighbor on the other hand has a real problem with bamboo. He rented a bobcat and carved his raging forest down to size. I know the previous owner and they just let it grow wild for over 10 years. The new owner let the bamboo go for another 5 years after they bought the house. The guy I got my running bamboo has a great professional video made of his fabulous garden. Just go to TH-cam and search "Growing a Greener World Episode 1111: Creating Paradise Through a Shared Passion for Gardening". Probably shows his bamboo area.
My husband got me a little seed growing kit with the little seed packet. So I planted it it turned out to be a mimosa. At least the leaf shape was the same as Anamosa but it had these thorns on it and it was real skinny but it got to be about four feet tall and every time I walk past it it seemed to reach out and grab my clothes so I had to tell my husband thank you so much for buying the plant I really appreciate it but it has got to go
I have had the Trumpet Vine nightmare - also inherited. Thankfully I moved and left it behind. I would add another item to the list and that is Morning Glory - not the big blue "plate" ones which are fine, at least here in Upstate NY where they are annuals and I've never had any self-seed. But the smaller pink or dark bluish/purple ones are the devil's plant. I bought a packet of seeds in the supermarket one year and planted them by a chain-link fence that protected my veg garden from deer. The plants came up, hid the fence and were pretty - "yay" says I. The following year they came back and, again, yay! But then so many came, it was overwhelming. They reached through the fence and latched onto the tomato and bean plants and anything else in their path, like boa constrictors. Long story shorter, I spent the next 7 years working to eradicate them. Basically, it's bind-weed. Even in my last year at the property, I found a couple of seedlings even though there hadn't been a single flower allowed to survive to go to seed for that previous 7 years. Their first leaves are forked and the rest are heart-shaped, and those first forked leaves tell it's true nature.
Bamboo is just something for experienced gardeners in my opinion. There are some varieties which aren't invasive so they should be fine to everybody. The running kind in other hand is also pretty safe to plant if you know how to contain it. It's just getting a problem if you completely ignore it and let it grow everywhere.
I had to laugh at your remark regarding the wisteria covering the electric pole and lines, "I feel like I should be playing psycho music...." Even in Maine, although I'm tempted by wisteria and trumpet vine, I won't plant them. Consult your state university's horticultural program (cooperative extension service at .edu) for a list of invasive plants for your region. Thank you, Ms. Vater, for the educational video and for sharing your lovely backyard garden!
I covered my wedding pergola w/ wisteria and in 5 years, It pulled it down. After 3 days of cutting it DOWN and 4 days of rebuilding it, I was complete. Now to the bamboo, I planted one cane in 2005 in the corner of 12 acres. It's 2021 and it has grown to over 100 square feet. Doesn't seem to bad but then again, I love the look and peaceful clearing that I made in the center. My retreat from society.
Wow. I live in WI on a street with homes built in the late 1800's, early 1900's. I kid you not, our small city polices the power lines obsessively. If there are a few branches touching power lines they're getting cut down. If major branches are encroaching, that tree is coming down! I planted trumpet vine years ago, we tore it out this spring. It took over everything, and rarely bloomed on all the many, many vines. It was unbelievable. Add to that in our area it has to grow 7 yrs before it blooms? Yeah, just say NO!
Ok...I agree re Virginia creeper and trumpet vine. There are better substitutes. re Wisteria, be prepared for lots of maintenance and be responsible. If you can manage that, you'll be fine. As for bamboo, sorry, this is just wrong. There are "running" (invasive) bamboos and "clumping" bamboos. If you want runners, you will need to put them in large pots or install them with a root barrier, at least 4 feet down. Installers do this with privacy hedges all the time, with great success. But it's a lot easier to stick with clumpers, like Fargesia, Borinda and Chusquea. There are other clumpers and if you have a big property, there are slow runners that you can plant away from any structures. I have Black Timber Bamboo in a redwood planter box about 3 ft high, 6 ft wide and 22 ft long. It tries to escape from time to time. I used to dig the runners out at a great cost in time and effort. I just cut them or break them off now. Shoots almost never regrow from a stump. Once a bamboo shoot (culm) is damaged or cut, it never comes back. Also, if you are serious about removing the previous owner's bamboo, use Tryclopir or Round Up. You don't need to spray and pollute the environment. Just cut the shoots low and apply concentrated herbicide on the top of the stumps. Time consuming, but effective. Or if it is a property where you can graze horses or goats, let them at it ever year until it disappears. A neighbor did that here, with "golden bamboo", THE most invasive type. Took the horses a few years, but they munched a 25 ft x 25 ft patch down to nothing. Finally, she mentions English Ivy as an afterthought. Seriously? Here in CA, that plant is a weapon of mass habitat destruction. It has choked 100s of miles of riparian corridor in CA almost to death. Removing it is nearly impossible, because even tiny root fragments left in the dirt can sprout new roots and foliage. And in the East and Midwest, there is vining Euonymus, which is at least as bad as English Ivy, if not worse. I get her point. Most people won't make the long term commitment to properly manage these plants. I just think bamboo, in particular, can be managed.
Bamboo is a great plant when used correctly. It can be very useful for creating privacy quickly and it adds a character that is hard to achieve in any other way. There are so many varieties that there really is a type of bamboo to fill just about any need. The keys are first, knowing the difference between running and clumping bamboos, and second, when using a running bamboo, you have to contain it with rhizome barrier or root pruning “trenches” if you don’t want it to spread. If you plan ahead, and prepare the space, you can contain it in the specific area where you want it without the worry of it spreading to the rest of your yard or the neighbors. Simply saying, “never plant bamboo,” is shortsighted and robs people of the joys and beauty of cultivating such an interesting and useful family of plants. While bamboo may not be best for the novice or casual landscaper, it can be a wonderful addition to any space in just about any climate with a bit a learning. Educating is better than discouraging.
running bamboo can be kept under control for only a short time, and will then spread over and eventually under a 4 foot deep barrier. If you plant it, and maintain it, good for you, but in due time, someone else will have to control it and may not. It should be outlawed...
I didn’t know there were non-running varieties. We had that variety in a small city lot and it was dreadful. I have no desire to hamper others pleasure in plants but someone ruined mine. All I did was dig and mow to try to contain it.
I HATE Virginia Creeper...it's a constant battle. My Wisteria is in the middle of my front yard. It has nothing close to it for it to vine on and I keep it trimmed small like a giant bonsi tree that is maybe 8 feet tall total . It is so beautiful in the spring but yes, I keep it under control.
She forgot to mention there is a non-running, non-invasive bamboo called clumping bamboo that has hundreds of awesome looking species ranging from 7-8 feet high to over 40 feet.
Clumping bamboo DOES NOT spread. Please check the difference between clumping bamboos, such as fargesia robusta, and regular bamboo. Bamboo can be a wonderful privacy screen and a very decorative large grass. Several types of clumping bamboo are hardy to Z6.
I think bamboo should be illegal to plant in the USA. In quick time it could take over our forests and natural trees. It is so very hard to eradicate, and sooo many people don't know the consequences of planting it that it's scary. I see more and more of it all the time in New Jersey, and It disturbs me so much that I have thought about starting a petition to outlaw the planting of it altogether here in the USA. I knew someone who had it growing through the floors of their building. It kept us from purchasing two different homes. However, the home we did purchase had 3 wisteria growing on it, and we are trying our best to get rid of all of it. Soooo hard to do. If you read this, PLEASE don't plant bamboo or wisteria. There are many many other non invasive plants and flowers you can choose from !!!
I will never plant Creeping Jenny or The old fashioned little Violets or mint again ! My friend says Creeping Jenny cold cover a truck! And i think iy could.Thanks for the vid.
Invasive species do cause a lot of extra work. Rhubarb goes everywhere, same for raspberry, or hops. Vinegar and baking soda works too. But the worst is creeping Charlie that has big slugs as companions. pine trees, take over..
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.
I literally laughed out loud.
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!
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.
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
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
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
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 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.
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...
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.
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?
100% agree with all of this. Wisteria root damage is horrific too.
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?
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.
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.....
I wanted bamboo as a privacy screen, but my Mom said I would be sorry, I'm glad I listened to her for once.
That’s a myth research “clumping bamboo” it’s non evasive n only grows in a 6ft radius
@@taskforce505 I was going to say the same thing! There are various types of bamboo and some of them are the clumping type.
I think that there is a beautiful black stemmed variety, Nigra (?), that is much less of a problem ...
@@taskforce505 I bought a bamboo that's supposed to be clumping but after a few years it started spreading. I controlled by trenching around it and adding a 4 ft barrier but it could still grow thru gaps. It can be controlled by digging for stragglers every year. It's a good workout. Also need a heavy duty spade.
MY mother in law hates bamboo. She fought it for years ! I tried to get her to plant some leeland cyprys trees
to combat it. She said no those were way too big. I love the huge trees. She suffered with that bamboo
late in her life. It worried the crap out of her.
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.
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 bought my house 10 years ago and it has trumpet vine and it is the worst but i learn to love it because it is soooo invasive!
My aunt has had wisteria growing on a pergola. It is absolutely gorgeous. It has been there for years and she have never had any problems with hers.
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 plant "enemy" is ground ivy. It started popping up about 8 years ago. Now, I fight it in every bed. It has done a nice job of covering the bare, shady spot, though.
Yes. Of all plants I have dealt with in Minnesota - Ground Ivy - or "Creeping Charlie" is the most challenging.
I have English ivy in hanging baskets and pots.... they behave and it's a pop of green during winter
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.
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.
"I dont advocate using nuclear devices in the garden". I love this lady already. Subscribed.
We moved to southeast Texas 5 years ago and we have trumpet vine.....
I have a flower bed and veggie garden far, far, FAR away from the vine and that dumb thing is constantly coming up and is EXTREMELY hard to pull up. I had no clue that shoots could even travel that far!
Ugh.
I had a problem with hostas..they got way out of hand.Thanks for all the information.Take Care.
When the English Ivy in my garden Finally bit the dust (several years ago) over a particularly cold and tough Midwest winter, I did the dance of joy.
Congrats, in Flint, Mich nothing will stop it.
I did but my neighbor kept his and it’s baaaaack !! 😂
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.
There are two types of Bamboo Clumping and running never plant running clumping is ok to plant as long as you know the required space.
We have bamboo in the garden but my husband planted it in a large tub in a hole then concrete around it. Been in the garden for a few years and we love it
You did it the right way!!
Please note I took out two 24 year old wisteria trees. We took out two large root balls and never imagined some of the legs coming off the main rootballs would send up shoots. We are having a constant battle with new shoots because some of
Leggy roots went under a cement patio we can't access.
I loved this video, knew most of them, someone tried to give me trumpet vine and I said NO🤭👍
Trumpet vine and wisteria are an in-lawn plant to be pruned into a tree, in the middle of your lawn, next to NOTHING. 🤣 THAT is how ya grow those. Lol
my garden was almost drowning in ivy and hopefully I was able to get rid of it but I still have the trumpet wine to tackle 😩
Me too but my hubby loves it...trumpet.vine ..man i HATE THAT STUFF....BUT LOVE MY HUBBY.
I'm a master gardener. Hate to use chemicals but sometimes you have no choice. Use brush killer, spray on leaves
I agree on Wisteria and the Trumpet Vine. I was unable to control and restrain mine from going crazy. Even in bone dry TX soil these plants grew 3 feet a DAY. I've never seen anything like it. It scared me... I cut them all down to the ground. Of course new plants are popping out but I can manage those.
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.
#6 bush honeysuckle. I've also had rose of Sharon get out of control.
You are so right! And once that happens, it's a never-ending battle. Even when I think I've won, I'm wrong.
I love your backyard. And your face 💚
Very informative. Thank you! Woe to those who plant Nandina and English Ivy. I have used Crossbow herbicide in attempt to beat it back, but it is a constant, exhausting, every year battle in an urban setting. Nandina is ugly, smells like cat pee when trimmed, is a member of the bamboo family, will send root systems over 20, 30, 40 feet away from the original plant to pop up above the soil, and I have to trim it every 2 or 3 weeks. VERY difficult to uproot or poison to kill. It came with our house as did the native English Ivy that is choking the life out of very mature hardwood trees (arborists are expensive & so are the large limbs it causes to fall), invading the neighbors', and NOTHING seems to kill it. Crossbow wounds it above ground, but the root systems underground survive. The root systems of English Ivy and Nandina are tenacious, pernicious. A friend planted bamboo around/against her house to help with moisture against the house foundation. It began growing into and under the foundation. She hired a crew to dig over 6 feet into the ground around her foundation to remove the bamboo and could not afford the money to keep doing it. I cringe every time I see bamboo in cute, decorative planters for sale at a grocery store or nursery. Avoid it like it is a plague to your yard, because it is.
You have a beautiful garden! Do you have to deal with pests like spider mites? How do you control them?
Wisteria is awful just like cudzu.
NEVER plant the tall weed grasses that are so very popular right now. If they're not in a concert boarder they will take over and nothing kills them. They also spread from the dry seeds that are so lightweight they fly blocks away.
Running bamboo will be the death of me. I told my family to put it on my headstone. “Bamboo killed her”. 😂I HATE Bamboo.
I’m having the same problem with a Chinese Sumac tree. It’s a Hydra.
There is one variety of bamboo that is not invasive. Most likely would have to get a notarized statement from the supplier.
LadyLiberty WDC there are pretty clumping species.
We laugh when we see bamboo. My daughter was 6 and stopped by a neighbors house to thank him for planting it for the pandas. He said it might take a while.. She is 18 now and when he sees her he mentions he's still waiting.
Thank you! Is that a grass substitute? Your garden is beautiful!
I have wisteria that I just plopped in the middle of the yard when I first moved in. It’s grown up a piece of rebar and there it remains, small and well-behaved. I was considering moving closer to the forest line. Glad to have discovered this video.
In Houston Texas I saw wisteria take the roof off a vacant house by pushing the roof up and off so I know this one.
I totally agree with wisteria, My 75 year old aunt planted it about 20 years ago, I have taken over the house and 3 years later still trying to kill it out. will probably end up taken a road torch to it. I find clematis to be a much better substituite
I have virginia creeper right now growing randomly on my corner of the house. I kinda love it and dont mind it that much lol
"If you think COVID is a problem...Try eradicating bamboo..." LOL
I had issues at old house with Trumpet vines that neighbor opposite grew them in their back yard by our share fence. Somehow seem they love to get sun from my side so they grew crazy and spread everywhere and took over my entire backyard! I don’t know how to kill this plants so I gave up and moved! The only benefit of trumpet vines is attract the humming birds but that’s it, I just hang hummingbird feeder in my new place and they came, way better to deal with crazy trumpet vines again.
Do you have a vlog that shows which plants to use to decorate contemporary mid-century homes? Thanks
Moved into our home last August and I am battling Wisteria as we speak! Planted on our brick fence and our neighbors. It is a complete nightmare!!! It chokes out everything and I have learned it will have to be constantly maintained! I don't think it's ever been cut back. Been in the yard cutting for two weeks now!
I love the way lamb's ear looks but I am so terrified of it running across my yard
Like Susan said below, Morning Glory !!! The bane of my existence . They self seed like crazy !
Agreed!
I am working on getting rid of a bunch of trumpet vine and Holly that has been put in the garden. We inherited it… We didn’t put it there! It is indeed very crazy, but we’re getting there. The Halle… Not so much trumpet vine a little easier.
good list and video. bamboo truly does suck. i used to live next door to a guy whose entire back yard was filled with it. some of the trunks were a foot in diameter. it was weird. but that stuff would grow underneath the fence and into my yard. the whole underneath half of my yard next to his was filled with twining bamboo roots about a foot deep. they run like snakes through the dirt. they were always coming up and i had to spend every spring cutting it out of my yard.
on the flip side, that power pole looks better with green on it. but no, i wouldn't allow creeper or trumpet vine in my yard. a climbing hydrangea would look better on that pole anyways :).
Buying all of these for my neighbor's abandoned property... also tempted to send some to my ex...
Orange day lilies!!! I inherited a small flower garden the last renter planted just before she moved. The day lilies totally overtook the garden and spread into the grass. I’ve tried boiling water, roundup, and pulling them out but they keep coming back and spreading! This year I am digging out the entire garden area to remove the tubers and roots but I can’t dig out the entire lawn! I am going to cover the garden with cardboard and mulch but I’m afraid they will come through it. And what about the lawn?? If anyone has had success with this please tell me what you have done. It makes me cry.
Virginia Creeper can also be a problem where I live - in southern Idaho which is hot and dry.
Depends on where you lie, too. Virginia Creeper in western NY grows slowly, it's taken mine 5 years to start looking like something, and it doesn't grow well under trees and in any shaded area. Climate makes a HUGE difference in what to plant.
Then that's not winter creeper I killed all our winter creeper vines pulled then put in the fire so they ain't growing back not even from a broken piece
I love shopping with you! And the banter between you, Kayla and Stewart!
I have English ivy runners all through my yard and gardens from my neighbor and it looks horrible on their fence and it has broken the fence at the back of my property. I have ivy from my other neighbor which is a huge problem. Gout weed and Lily of the Valley also from neighbours and also a big problem.Periwinkle also a huge problem in my area.
So right about this. English Ivy and Bambu are the worst! We've learned a few things since the 1970s.
Wisteria was here when we came to live out here in N M,it is so Aggressive,the Blooms and it's Fragrance is Wonderful.We cut it back,it came back with a Vengeance, sent out all these Runners that ended up at the end of the Patio 10 ft from the Plant,
Rice paper plant. Beautiful in the jungle or in remote part of enormous garden, or in a very very large pots (where I have two). I love them but plant them and they will take over the landscape and come up in places you won't believe. Cutting them off at the root doesn't stop even more coming up. Acanthus is another plant that's difficult to dig out. Leave some root behind and it will pop up somewhere you don't want.
There are running bamboos and clumping bamboos. Clumping bamboos, such as Fargesia ‘rufa’ are beautiful and not problematic at all.
Pampas grass is bad too I just took some out & was very glad to get rid of it !
I unfortunately have both bamboo & Wisteria ….😖
We planted morning glory seeds at our old house. Never again would I plant that. It choked out everything else and came back every year.
Cactus,crown of thorns,oak trees,lantana,mint these things will over in your lawn in Florida
Check with your state extension service to see what plants are outlawed in your state. In Massachusetts burning bush, some barberry, myrtle(periwinkle) are a few.
English Ivy is a big one in the Pacific Northwest. It loves to climb Douglas firs. There are numerous dead snags that you'd swear were alive because they're choked with Hedera.
1. Creepy black 🖤 Shaped Rocks
2. Solid Wooden Spoons (not boiled)
3. Jumping Plastic Flowers (the kind from a diner)
4. Hysterical Wandering Parasols
5. Do not plant people, aggressive & multiply like mice
LOVE THE OLE CROW:)
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Staghorn sumac tree procreates through rizome and is impossible to get rid of
Great video. And I must say your yard is amazing 🤩😍👏👏👏
Great info! Would it be fair to say that in a colder climate, Virginia Creeper could be smaller??
I planted a lovely golden bamboo in the garden of my townhouse in Kensington London UK. It had a nice thick straight lovely clear golden culm and bright light green small feathery leaves on the top. No shaping necessary and no cleaning the lower culms. It was so well behaved, a clumper I had no problems at all. Slow growing as can be. One day I overheard the neighbour behind the fence telling a friend that they had no problem with the bamboo and rather liked its wild feel and that it was me who had planted it. So I took a ladder and looked over the high fence next day to see what she was talking about and to my shock and horror the entire row of houses six a side also had my bamboo, even thicker culmed than mine!!! It had escaped under the fence and tore down the entire row of gardens. Truly incredible. It appears it was my solid concrete courtyard that I had tiled over with something more attractive that kept it so nice and polite in my own garden but over the fence it was able to go stark raving mad. Just a well we moved to Asia a few months later or I'm sure someone would've decided to take me to court to remove all of it. It did look kind of lovely though, a lush urban jungle of bright yellow bamboo. The kitties loved playing in it. Dont believe anyone there are no hardy clumpers, only tropical ones which are truly clumping and well behaved. The hardy ones spread and spread some slower than others but they spread.......
Yes, yes, yes to bamboo and wisteria! Our neighbors have bamboo that crept into the corner of our back yard while we both worked two jobs for years. Last year Covid gave us several months at home and we started digging it up to reclaim the yard. We've gotten most of it out, except for four or five clumps. And the house had wisteria on the wall when we moved in. It's between the steps and the wall and we can't dig it out. All I can do is cut it and I do use a herbicide on it; however, it comes up all over the yard and has to be dug out. The woods behind our house has trumpet vine and it's always creeping into our yard. And Virginia creeper--yes, birds brought it to us a few years ago and it's attractive but way too vigorous.
Add wintercreeper to your list, it is the worst in the east of United States, in more dry states it may be Okay. I agree with you.
My neighbor uses garden services and they bring all kinds of weeds from different lawns. If Virginia creeper is anything like Virginia Buttonweed then heaven forbid. It's a constant war.
I love bamboo and the relatively non-invasive version of wisteria. I am in N Georgia, zone 7a. Here we have crazy invasive plants that will take over. I have bamboo and wisteria and find them easy to control by comparison. I am however out in my garden nearly every day. Every area is different. Here in N GA, the following are the menace to many gardens here... Mimosa, privet, sweetgum, wild thorny blackberry, pine, crepe myrtle, and poison ivy. Privet pops up everywhere and once sweetgum gets to about a foot and a half tall you need a hoist to pull it out. You can cut it below the soil line and it just grows back stronger. I do have running bamboo and my variety is a slow grower. The man I bought it from has had a beautiful patch about 30' x 15' for 35 years and told me it never became invasive. This variety I have does not grow back when you mow or clip off new shoots. My other neighbor on the other hand has a real problem with bamboo. He rented a bobcat and carved his raging forest down to size. I know the previous owner and they just let it grow wild for over 10 years. The new owner let the bamboo go for another 5 years after they bought the house. The guy I got my running bamboo has a great professional video made of his fabulous garden. Just go to TH-cam and search "Growing a Greener World Episode 1111: Creating Paradise Through a Shared Passion for Gardening". Probably shows his bamboo area.
My husband got me a little seed growing kit with the little seed packet. So I planted it it turned out to be a mimosa. At least the leaf shape was the same as Anamosa but it had these thorns on it and it was real skinny but it got to be about four feet tall and every time I walk past it it seemed to reach out and grab my clothes so I had to tell my husband thank you so much for buying the plant I really appreciate it but it has got to go
I am also in ga
@@ellencowart283 Georgia is really a great place to live.
I have had the Trumpet Vine nightmare - also inherited. Thankfully I moved and left it behind. I would add another item to the list and that is Morning Glory - not the big blue "plate" ones which are fine, at least here in Upstate NY where they are annuals and I've never had any self-seed. But the smaller pink or dark bluish/purple ones are the devil's plant. I bought a packet of seeds in the supermarket one year and planted them by a chain-link fence that protected my veg garden from deer. The plants came up, hid the fence and were pretty - "yay" says I. The following year they came back and, again, yay! But then so many came, it was overwhelming. They reached through the fence and latched onto the tomato and bean plants and anything else in their path, like boa constrictors. Long story shorter, I spent the next 7 years working to eradicate them. Basically, it's bind-weed. Even in my last year at the property, I found a couple of seedlings even though there hadn't been a single flower allowed to survive to go to seed for that previous 7 years. Their first leaves are forked and the rest are heart-shaped, and those first forked leaves tell it's true nature.
You are so right!!
Bamboo is just something for experienced gardeners in my opinion. There are some varieties which aren't invasive so they should be fine to everybody.
The running kind in other hand is also pretty safe to plant if you know how to contain it. It's just getting a problem if you completely ignore it and let it grow everywhere.
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I had to laugh at your remark regarding the wisteria covering the electric pole and lines, "I feel like I should be playing psycho music...." Even in Maine, although I'm tempted by wisteria and trumpet vine, I won't plant them. Consult your state university's horticultural program (cooperative extension service at .edu) for a list of invasive plants for your region. Thank you, Ms. Vater, for the educational video and for sharing your lovely backyard garden!
I covered my wedding pergola w/ wisteria and in 5 years, It pulled it down. After 3 days of cutting it DOWN and 4 days of rebuilding it, I was complete.
Now to the bamboo, I planted one cane in 2005 in the corner of 12 acres. It's 2021 and it has grown to over 100 square feet. Doesn't seem to bad but then again, I love the look and peaceful clearing that I made in the center. My retreat from society.
Wow. I live in WI on a street with homes built in the late 1800's, early 1900's. I kid you not, our small city polices the power lines obsessively. If there are a few branches touching power lines they're getting cut down. If major branches are encroaching, that tree is coming down! I planted trumpet vine years ago, we tore it out this spring. It took over everything, and rarely bloomed on all the many, many vines. It was unbelievable. Add to that in our area it has to grow 7 yrs before it blooms? Yeah, just say NO!
Ok...I agree re Virginia creeper and trumpet vine. There are better substitutes. re Wisteria, be prepared for lots of maintenance and be responsible. If you can manage that, you'll be fine. As for bamboo, sorry, this is just wrong. There are "running" (invasive) bamboos and "clumping" bamboos. If you want runners, you will need to put them in large pots or install them with a root barrier, at least 4 feet down. Installers do this with privacy hedges all the time, with great success. But it's a lot easier to stick with clumpers, like Fargesia, Borinda and Chusquea. There are other clumpers and if you have a big property, there are slow runners that you can plant away from any structures. I have Black Timber Bamboo in a redwood planter box about 3 ft high, 6 ft wide and 22 ft long. It tries to escape from time to time. I used to dig the runners out at a great cost in time and effort. I just cut them or break them off now. Shoots almost never regrow from a stump. Once a bamboo shoot (culm) is damaged or cut, it never comes back. Also, if you are serious about removing the previous owner's bamboo, use Tryclopir or Round Up. You don't need to spray and pollute the environment. Just cut the shoots low and apply concentrated herbicide on the top of the stumps. Time consuming, but effective. Or if it is a property where you can graze horses or goats, let them at it ever year until it disappears. A neighbor did that here, with "golden bamboo", THE most invasive type. Took the horses a few years, but they munched a 25 ft x 25 ft patch down to nothing. Finally, she mentions English Ivy as an afterthought. Seriously? Here in CA, that plant is a weapon of mass habitat destruction. It has choked 100s of miles of riparian corridor in CA almost to death. Removing it is nearly impossible, because even tiny root fragments left in the dirt can sprout new roots and foliage. And in the East and Midwest, there is vining Euonymus, which is at least as bad as English Ivy, if not worse. I get her point. Most people won't make the long term commitment to properly manage these plants. I just think bamboo, in particular, can be managed.
Vinca. It’s taken over the forest floor on my property, obliterating native flowers.
Vinca minor is not invasive in Mid-Atlantic USA - quite the contrary.
@@ladylibertywdc8324 Well, I’d be very happy if you wanted to come to Indiana and remove about an acre of it from my property.
@@ransomcoates546 look up the medicinal value in vinca. Its been a while since I have but i do believe it has a few medicinal benefits.
I planted vinca minor to cover a larger area and it worked. We do have to managed it's creep but it did the job.
Bamboo is a great plant when used correctly. It can be very useful for creating privacy quickly and it adds a character that is hard to achieve in any other way. There are so many varieties that there really is a type of bamboo to fill just about any need. The keys are first, knowing the difference between running and clumping bamboos, and second, when using a running bamboo, you have to contain it with rhizome barrier or root pruning “trenches” if you don’t want it to spread. If you plan ahead, and prepare the space, you can contain it in the specific area where you want it without the worry of it spreading to the rest of your yard or the neighbors. Simply saying, “never plant bamboo,” is shortsighted and robs people of the joys and beauty of cultivating such an interesting and useful family of plants. While bamboo may not be best for the novice or casual landscaper, it can be a wonderful addition to any space in just about any climate with a bit a learning. Educating is better than discouraging.
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running bamboo can be kept under control for only a short time, and will then spread over and eventually under a 4 foot deep barrier. If you plant it, and maintain it, good for you, but in due time, someone else will have to control it and may not. It should be outlawed...
I didn’t know there were non-running varieties. We had that variety in a small city lot and it was dreadful. I have no desire to hamper others pleasure in plants but someone ruined mine. All I did was dig and mow to try to contain it.
I agree about wisteria. My dad has it in his yard. What a mess.
I HATE Virginia Creeper...it's a constant battle. My Wisteria is in the middle of my front yard. It has nothing close to it for it to vine on and I keep it trimmed small like a giant bonsi tree that is maybe 8 feet tall total
. It is so beautiful in the spring but yes, I keep it under control.
I have Virginia Creeper and Climbing Nightshade under my trees (gifts from birds). They are work to pull out every year.
Your backyard is a paradise!
She forgot to mention there is a non-running, non-invasive bamboo called clumping bamboo that has hundreds of awesome looking species ranging from 7-8 feet high to over 40 feet.
Clumping bamboo DOES NOT spread. Please check the difference between clumping bamboos, such as fargesia robusta, and regular bamboo. Bamboo can be a wonderful privacy screen and a very decorative large grass. Several types of clumping bamboo are hardy to Z6.
Awesome video love the passion
Periwinkle is another one. It has nice flowers but takes over everywhere
I think bamboo should be illegal to plant in the USA. In quick time it could take over our forests and natural trees. It is so very hard to eradicate, and sooo many people don't know the consequences of planting it that it's scary. I see more and more of it all the time in New Jersey, and It disturbs me so much that I have thought about starting a petition to outlaw the planting of it altogether here in the USA. I knew someone who had it growing through the floors of their building. It kept us from purchasing two different homes. However, the home we did purchase had 3 wisteria growing on it, and we are trying our best to get rid of all of it. Soooo hard to do. If you read this, PLEASE don't plant bamboo or wisteria. There are many many other non invasive plants and flowers you can choose from !!!
I will never plant Creeping Jenny or The old fashioned little Violets or mint again ! My friend says Creeping Jenny cold cover a truck! And i think iy could.Thanks for the vid.
Invasive species do cause a lot of extra work. Rhubarb goes everywhere, same for raspberry, or hops. Vinegar and baking soda works too. But the worst is creeping Charlie that has big slugs as companions. pine trees, take over..