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.
At my old house I had a wisteria, but I trained it into a tree. Looked like an umbrella. I kept it pruned and had zero issues. At this house, however the neighbors untended wisteria is constantly trying to take over our split-rail fence so my husband prunes it.
Still Mandeville. I love wisteria too, but it's not the idea of having one in a pot. Wisteria seeds are dispersed throughout forests and competes and overgrows over trees, killing them. Forsythe Wildlife Natural Area in New Jersey is where I was convinced that it truly is an invasive.
I have a terrible terrible problem with wisteria! It came over from a neighbor's yard and has now killed a group of Leyland cypress trees and it's threatening to keep going down the line. I cannot kill it. It comes up from the ground and it travels over in the tree crown.
I'm in Victoria Australia wisteria is beautiful and can be controlled. A neighbour had hers growing as a 'tree'. This was achieved by using a stake that supported the trunk and allowed the top to umbrella. Took a lot of pruning but truly a beautiful effect.
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. 😒
I was at Lowe’s this week and a young couple was buying rosemary plants. Lots of them. About 20 plants. I asked them what they ere going to do with all that rosemary. “We just love to cook with rosemary. I just love it!” I suggested that the might not need that many plants and to put the in a large pot. I told them i have one I have had for at least 15 years and it is huge. They declined my suggestion and said the needed that many. I reminded myself of how many times I have gone my own way in the garden. And maybe one day I will be able to keep my suggestions to myself!!! 😜
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 have Virginia creeper growing over my fence just like yours. Before I regard it as a weed, but now I've come to appreciate it. It hides my ugly fence and it becomes a beautiful red in the autumn. I give it a haircut once a month. I'd like to think of my flowers as performers on stage with Virginia creeper as the curtains.
Well-said. It's a magnificent plant. I saw some at a local nursery a couple of years ago. You are inspiring me to take another look there. We're in AZ, and it might be best to plant it in the fall...?
I bought a house with the bamboo, Virginia creeper, and trumpet vine growing vigorously in my back yard. It's been 4 years of trying to get the bamboo under control. The Virginia creeper is like you said more easily controlled. I cut back the trumpet vine to 1 stalk and will be trying to train and control it. I wish people would think before they plant something because they like the look of it.
A tip for bamboo if you're opposed to herbicide (my personal recommendation) is to hack the bamboo shoots down, wait for them to shoot again (they can go from stump to full height in a matter of days) and then take off all the vertical growth just as it puts out the horizontal leaf stalks. This process must be repeated over and over until it eventually runs out of energy stores in the root and dies, you've basically got to stop it going into leaf because those leaves feed the root and recoup the energy lost by shooting. It's a pretty arduous task hence why I recommend herbicide as a primary means of control
I 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.
English Ivy is definitely on that list. Here in Georgia, there is so much kudzu that was planted in the 1930s for erosion control. They finally realized what a problem it was, but it was too late. The south is still having to deal with it nearly 100 years later.
Years ago when I first read about kudzu, i thought it sounded like a great idea to cover a railing. Fortunately my husband caught me. He shared with me that it was a terrible idea and explained why. Thank G-d!!
@@mountaingirl4252 Oh my gosh! When we first moved to Georgia ('90) I asked what that was that looked like it was devouring massive pine trees. It was kudzu! We were shown a picture of the same exact place 2 yrs before. It showed people removing a VERY small patch of the horrible blight now in Georgia and using a back hoe to dig up all around the area, hoping to rid the woods of Kudzu. Unfortunately, 2 yrs after that picture was taken, the entire area was smoothered by Kudzu! 3 yrs later many of the beautiful pines had fallen under the weight and suffocation caused by that horrendous vine.
Omg! Bought a house that had a wisteria and after 20 years, I took it out. So much work with little reward. To keep under control, I was pruning every week and consequently, removing buds in the process. Removing roots is a nightmare. Felt bad while removing it, but after two weeks, I am ecstatic it is gone, just wish I had done it 19 years ago!
My neighbors grow dill in their backyard. This spring I spotted a group of them growing in the oddest location of my yard. I yanked them out root and all. Month later I noticed another group of dill growing opposite end of the first group spotted. This time I embraced it. We are grilling more fish this summer. Que sera sera.
So many herbs strongly evince childhood memories forme...good ones. Many I don't even use for cooking. But I cherish the aromas. I've tried for years to grow just a bit of dill. Never successfully! Shouldn't be so hard. I live near NYC. What could I be doing wrong?
@@claudiaphilippe5655 You can just toss the seeds around now in a sunny area of soil that you will not disturb. They don't need any attention at all. Then in the spring, sprinkle some more. If you sprinkle some seeds every month during the warmer months, you'll have dill from spring to freeze up. All of these 'weeds' will do their thing without much or any assistance from us. Then let a couple of plants grow to maturity. They produce huge amounts of seeds and you will never be dill-free.
Important video. I planted a wisteria vine and it started to destroy my fence. I immediately had it removed. I planted 'clumping' bamboo as a privacy screen and it's totally fine. Must be CLUMPING bamboo. The only thing I don't like about it are the tiny leaves that it drops. It's been in my garden for over 10 years and has only spread a few feet and it's easy to cut the new stems because they pop up next to the original plant instead of sending out shoots everywhere.
I have English ivy, trumpet vine, wisteria and ruellia that people are all against and I don't personally have a problem with them. We keep them trimmed back responsibly and that makes all the difference. Your garden is lovely.
Agreed. I grew up along the Little Calumet River in Chicago. My parents also had a lovely garden like this lady's. As I got older, I added vegetables and other flowers. The yard was lovingly tended; trees included Maple, Bur Oak, Cottonwood, Honeylocust, Spruce, Elm, Willow, Birch, Plum, Cherry and Ash. Vines included Wild Grape and Virginia Creeper. They had no "pests" to speak of, though the Willows had aphids, and we would never put any of our plants on a "don't plant" list, unless one had a very small property.
I think differentiating running bamboo from clumping is important. I've grown the slower growing, clumping varieties (fargesia rufa, robusta, nitida) on our fence lines for 20 years without it invading the neighbor's gardens. And it's gorgeous. I do have running varieties but those have to stay in pots.
I was just going to make that point. Clumping bamboo is wonderful, I planted timber bamboo, it was 3 inches across at the base and 30 feet tall. Running bamboo can pop up 10 feet away from the parent plant and can push itself up through asphalt, you will need to contain it with a hard plastic barrier at least three feet down.
Yup if you love bamboo but don't like the outta control nature of it clumping bamboo is the way to go. It's very well behaved but in my opinion not as attractive. I like the variegated runners like Alphonse Carr lol if that's spelled right, and others like the green and white pygmy. I set lose LOL 4 different runners on my property and have made a fairly successful video called "the monsters called the running bamboo" that shows my ignorance, hatred, and unconditional love of these crazy plants. I was out cutting bamboo outta my neighbors yard earlier questioning why I ever planted it.....but I still love it cuz there's nothing quite like it! Maybe God will bless me and my neighbors by the bamboo blooming before I get to old to control it.🤞🤞🤞🤞🙏🙏🙏🙏
I bought my running bamboo from my local garden center. I had no idea there was a differnce and the person at the center should've warned me. I almost had a disaster. I lined a hole I dug with pool liner but the bamboo simply went over it and re-established and began invading my lawn...I finally killed it all off..clumping sounds like the way to go..
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...
Totally agree about the trumpet vine. If you have trumpet vine, keep it away from the house. I've seen it take root and grow in cracks of an old Victorian house.
In the uk we prune our wisteria every year. To a tight framework- actually you prune twice a year in the winter/early spring. Very easy. No big deal really. You certainly never just let it grow wild like that.
its not what you can see is the problem its what is going on under the ground take it from someone who has spent days digging up way war tendrils it even penetrated the landscape fabric that i had laid in the vain hope of controlling its expansion!
lol I can promise, though it may be easy to tame in the UK, it is NOT in Northeast Texas. I’ve seen it take over with experienced gardeners throwing everything they know at it. It takes down strong fences with its weight. Tears down power lines. Crosses roads. I love seeing it in bloom…but once it gets going, there’s just no stopping it.
Linda's advice is so accurate, I am a professional gardener and I earn a lot of money removing out of control bamboo and secondly ivy. This ladies advice is well worth taking on board.
I disagree strongly on the bamboo one, bamboo is a wonderplant that has been shown to be a carbon sponge 'Bamboo’s fast-growing and renewable stands sequester carbon in their biomass - at rates comparable, or even superior to, a number of tree species. The many durable products made from bamboo can also be potentially carbon-negative, because they act as locked-in carbon sinks in themselves and encourage the expansion and improved management of bamboo forests.'
Mh-hm. When I moved in to my house the previous owner thought it was a "wonderful" idea to plant bamboo in the back yard. I researched it and sure enough found out that it was a take over plant. And I left it for a bit and sure enough it was growing outward. So I took on the tedious job over the next few months of digging it up, and anytime it shot up I would dig into the root system and have to put root killer. They had also planted a couple trees next to the house, how where they not worried about the root system bothering the foundation! Well it took me a couple of years and about a thousand dollars but I was able to remove all the unpleasant plants and trees. I did whatever I could by myself, the rest I had to pay to take out.
What is you secret to removing English ivy? I am doing battle w 30% vinegar, and seems to be making a little headway. I strongly prefer natural solutions. Any ideas? Thanks in advance.
Your garden is stunning 💗 in Rhode Island, that one thing never to plant would be our state flower, the violet! I inherited them and 30 years later, I have never eradicated them. It's impossible. However, I have recently heard they are edible, so at least I wouldn't starve. ☺️
I live in San Francisco. The guy next door has a little forest of it in his small yard with pink/purple bouginvilla, mixed in. It is absolutely gorgeous!!!!!! When the sun is rising and setting, the colors are STUNNING!!!!! 😉😉💖💜💕But he does have to have someone come in and thin it.
Bougainvillea, even though it can become GINORMOUS, at least it can take a good hard trimming every year to keep control over it. I once lived in a house where a previous owner planted bougainvillea in a 2.5' deep strip of dirt between the driveway and house. We could not use the driveway after mid June. That winter, we had a hard frost and it really burnt the plant. So, late winter, I pruned it down to 18" tall. The neighbors came over and yelled at me and told me I was killing the plant they waited to see bloom every spring. I told them about how badly it had been frost burnt and how I fully intended to use my driveway now. I also said I thought it would be fine considering it can grow upwards of a foot a week in the summer. Well, come spring and after the plant had grown to about 4' tall, they came over saying I had ruined the plant as it had no blooms that year. I suggested they be more patient as the blooms come on the tips of the shoots and the shoots had to be a certain age before they would bloom. Sure enough, in another couple of weeks, it started blooming. By the end of August, it had grown so tall, it went over the edge of my extra tall roof. That winter I pruned it again but only to about 4' tall with no complaints from the neighbors.
Thank you, much appreciated from this young gardener. Summary; 1.Bamboo 2. Wisteria 3. Virginia Creeper 4. Trumpet Vine 5. Know your own geography/climate plant issues
I was scared of peppermint, but I pulled a lot out before fall and dried it for tea all winter. It has spread everywhere in the small patch but easy enough to pull back to tidy.🙏
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.
The neighbor at my old house had Boston ivy on a fence between our yards. It came over, under, and between the slats. It was on the ground in my flower bed also. She never trimmed it. I was glad to finally move.
In parts of South New Jersey there is a purple wisteria that had escaped from gardens & u can see it on poles & fences & tall trees from the highways when driving thru. I would also put any honeysuckle vine on that list. And Bittersweet vine too!!!! Black eyed Susans & daisies & Asian plants & butterfly bushes & some grasses too.
Lynn R. I live in drought ridden Texas panhandle. I have beautiful Virginia Creeper covered fences. Yes, it takes a little work to keep it contained, but in our brown countryside, its refreshing to see the green. I also have Trumpet Vine and because we have so little rainfall, it isn't a problem. Same with my Wisteria, so little rainfall that its easy to keep in check. I'm a vine lover!
You can plant Altheas in hard. poor soil so they don't take root easily. But, they are invasive. I had about 40 seedlings from one plant, dug them up and sold them with a warning.
I was given one for mother's day long ago. It was gorgeous until the seedlings came. I finally had a garden helper remove it and I'm still finding seedlings three years later.
I 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.
@@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.
Thank you for the information. I just bought trumpet vine. It will stay in 50 gall container. I will keep on eye on this so I can trim whenever it need to. I want to use it for privacy around the pool area.
I am clueless as to how Virginia Creeper ended up growing in my garden. Probably from a bird dropping a seed because my neighbors don't have it growing. It grows along the my bedroom windows and I love the draping it does and the birds build their nest in it. The branches also make great wreath forms because of their flexibility. I have free wreaths to decorate with for the holidays!🤗
I have every one of those plants in my yard, and I love them. Ivy and creeper like the shade so it doesn't invade the well lighted areas. Wisteria can be pruned from time to time - and should be! Each plant adds something to the landscape and all of them are like children, they need some degree of supervision. My yard has a type of bloom in it year round and it adds a little cheer.
I rip out any Virginia creeper that rears it’s head. The neighbor has it climbing up trees so I can enjoy the autumn color without too much trouble. I started a wisteria a few years ago & it’s still limping along (too much shade, maybe this year it’ll finally grow)
@@jorgehoran1691 It takes a couple of years (depending on the soil) for the wisteria roots to become established, and then it will take off. If it has something to climb on, it will grow straight up, seeking the sunlight. In a few more years, you will need to keep it pruned, or it will take over a location.
@@leighcontella811 When the ground is soft, you can often pull it up by the roots. I don't know your soil type, but in hard clay, just cut out all the roots you can find.
I have had Virginian Creeper (Woodbine) in two woodland gardens, including my current one. Whether it's desirable to plant it or not depends on your climate, what kind of garden you have and how you care for the garden. The roots are quite shallow and very easy to pull out completely if desired. I keep it as a ground cover for the deep blue-toned green and the fine leaf shape. Unlike ivy, it clings to trees and buildings by pads that do NOT penetrate into brick, mortar, etc. Training it to run up a mature tree trunk is fine if desired. This is the plant (not ivy) you see in photos of big English estate houses.
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.
Yes! Carolina Jasmine...was so pretty climbing my wrought iron trellis until it dragged it down. Last year I took out the vine and the trellis and thought it was all gone, wrong. Evidently the root is traveling under my stone patio because I found it climbing my blueberry bushes this year. 😳 Also, Cypress Vine! I planted it to climb over the support of a swing. I bet I pulled out hundreds of little starts popping up all over my gravel and in the grass around the swing. Grrrr. 🤪 I’m in zone 8a, Georgia. Love that you are helping everyone avoid the other bad ones! ❤️
@@GardenDoodles It's such a beautiful vine. But after some research, I decided not to buy it after all 😞. I read that the roots go down 9-inches deep & even a planter cannot contain them. It really saddens me because it would look so beautiful on my fence. Thank you so much for telling me about the seeds. P.S. are you currently battling this vine?
@@flowerpower2079 They are beautiful lush vines and they look great flanking our patio (as you may have seen in our videos) but we continue to battle them and they seem to get worse every year. They weave themselves into the roots of our roses and shrubs and pop up all over the lawn! It’s probably for the best that you learned about them now and can avoid the headaches.
I absolutely adore my wisteria. It is very established and also very large. It scales the front of the house and branches off both left and right. So the whole front of the house is in bloom Spring/Summer. However, I needs yearly pruning as it grows so quickly. I believe the homeowners before us did a great job at training it correctly. If we let it grow higher, I believe it would grow into the roof tiles.... which wouldn’t be good.
I'm in New England and would add Bittersweet to that list. I made the mistake of scattering some seeds years ago for the vine and berries that are commonly used in door wreaths here. It grows and travels underground and comes up everywhere, grows on telephone poles and is seen on roadsides and growing up trees. While it is green and beautiful to look at, it is terribly invasive.
So right about the trumpet vine! We have eradicated it from almost everywhere in the yard but we left it run amok in the black walnut trees. The flowers of the vine reach up the trees at least 30 feet and look magnificent in bloom. People stop and ask what kind of tree it is that has such big orange blooms. The hummers really enjoy it.
Hi Dot, I am obsessed with trumpet vine and finally managed to propagate it from seeds and stems cuttings. Now I watched this video and am concerned that it will overtake my little home destroy it and strangle the trees I am so upset what to do?
OMG I fought Wisteria for years on the property we bought, it was so out of control, almost impossible to get rid of. It was like a monster. The feeders spread all over the yard what a nightmare. I have had to cut wisteria vines so thick it took a CHAINSAW to get through them. DON'T PLANT IT.
Sounds like you had a real problem...it was clearly an old plant which had been allowed to go native...was it against a wall? better to have cut it back severely and trained the new tendrils( feeders I think are what you call them) onto a trellis and remember the flower pinniculs...grow on 12 month old shoots so remember this and prune gently every year.
In South Florida it is the Dragon Tree. The root is large and big as a trench. You’ll need a bull dozer with digging ability. And if a thumb size fall to the ground, one month, it’s growing all over again.
I don't know how it performs in South Florida but in Sarasota (zone 9b) the worst thing you can plant is the muscadine grape. They will grow everywhere and if not controlled, you'll have vines - thick enough for Tarzan to swing on - growing all up and down your trees. They spread by underground branches and will invade every section of your property. I'm speaking from experience.
My neighbor has a bamboo in her garden and I am so tired to fight it, especially because it grown in the very steep hill and I it is very dangerous to climb there. Once I fell from that hill, I am glad I haven’t broken any bone. I wish she watched your video. I was thinking about planting wisteria but after watching this I won’t. Thank you.
I agree with all of your list and have fought them all. I do grow a clumping bamboo and it is very controllable in a home garden, but if in doubt don't grow it. I harvest the seed pods from my trumpet vine before they pop open and that has helped a bunch. I live in a desert climate and can grow ivy, vinca major and chameleon plant and let intense sun and heat control them, but in Pacific NW they are huge problems. Redbuds are another free seeding tree that require a lot of work.
I'm glad I saw this. I adore Chinese wisteria. Every spring you can ride around rural parts of Georgia with your windows down to smell the beautiful scent. And who hasn't marvelled at those beautiful images of European storefronts and cottages covered in the blossoms? This past weekend I finally bought some little starter plants. Thankfully, because of limited space and the need to be able to move them when I move, I never planned to plant them in the ground. I hope to bonsai one and plant two others in two big planters pushed up against a trellis. I'm still concerned I'll need to watch for vines attempting to creep over the pot edges, but I'm prepared for aggressive pruning if necessary. These will never go into the ground! They should really be required to put warnings on the packaging or not make these available!
I've lived in hot climates, Houston and Baltimore. In both cities I saw mature trees - oaks - into which wisteria had grown extensively. In the spring it looked as if the entire tree was in bloom. These were very old, mature wisteria but they had not damaged the mature trees. It does depend greatly on how these plants are planted and what they grow on. In years of growth, neither of these plants had spread at all to the ground around the trees.
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.
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.
Also that came with the property is a vine called wild grape, it makes a good hedge over the wire fence put there but needs constant pruning and maintenance
Good advice on Wisteria is to plant it away from anything it can "attach" onto. Plant it away from other trees, from other plants, away from the house, a wall, etc. Plant it in an open space with full sun. It will grow similar to a Lilac bush or Rose of Sharon.
They are truly beautiful, but there really isn't a way to keep them away from everything else. At least not in my zone 8 climate. The problem is the runners under the soil. I'm still battling them and the tree was removed a year ago. I had to get rid of it. It was suffocating my gardenia.
@@stacey_d I must have American wisteria plants instead of the Asian varieties… because I haven’t seen any shooters pop up. If they are popping up, they are mowed down as soon as they sprout by the lawn mower.
@@stacey_d I must have American wisteria plants instead of the Asian varieties… because I haven’t seen any shooters pop up. If they are popping up, they are mowed down as soon as they sprout by the lawn mower.
Oh my goodness me, your garden!!! It is delicious! I'm almost there with the sounds and smells. Spring is almost sprung and I can't wait to get back out into my garden. It has been such a good place for my head this last year.
Oh my Linda, i am sooo with You with that bamboo! Had to learn that lesson on my own, i planted one like about 15 years ago and all went fine the first lets say three years. But then i started finding little bamboo plants like even five or ten meters away and finally radically tried to dig the whole thing out which was a huuuuge amount of work. Still finding rests of it now and then and if i´d not be after it the bamboo propably still would take over the garden completely in some years...
Clumping bamboo vs running bamboo. Clumping bamboo will grow out in a circle, it is controllable. Running bamboo is uncontrollable and should be against the law or code in every city.
I was thinking about planting clumping bamboo as a privacy screen, but now I’m a little nervous. Do you have any experience with graceful bamboo or Seabreeze bamboo?
I couldn't agree more about Wysteria! My old yard had it in the yard when I bought the place and oh my lord it was on the ground and rooting everywhere
I agree 100% about trumpet vine. It is a pest. One plant you don't mention is tradescantia (spiderwort.) It is an invasive plant - even grows in the cracks of the sidewalk.
Wow. I haven't even watched all of this yet but looked at the list of the plants you're advising against and realize I've been actively considering THREE of them! Thanks for the heads-up!
Thanks for this video very informative for me I'm a zone 7....my neighbor has a hedge of rose of Sharon. I dread the Fall... ugh the seed heads!!! The wind blows them clear across to the other side of my property and all in between😡😢
I have a couple and now when I cut them back I lay a tarp or sheet under them and dispose all the seed heads that drop! This has really saved me a lot of work by greatly reducing hand weeding.
We just purchased a home in North central Oklahoma. The yard all the way around has rose of Sharon --some 12 to 15 FEET wide and just as tall!! We're attacking it with chain saws. It is a life long work in progress.
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 just had my husband dig up our wisteria! It was driving me crazy! We planted a pink lady slipper hydrangea in it's place! So glad that it's gone, but it took a lot of digging! Those wisteria roots are enormous!!
You have to plant clumping bamboo and do it like raspberries-raised bed ONLY! ONLY plant trumpet vine and wisteria as a specimen "tree" in the middle of your lawn-gorgeous like that-otherwise yeah-forget it! There is a false Virginia creeper that has no suckers and I butcher mine every fall, but best to drape it over chain link and have it along lawn.
Ivy, honeysuckle, Vining Jasmine, Virginia Creeper, mints, kudzu, mimosa, Morning Glory, onions and Tut grass are extremely invasive in our area. Bradford pears grow fast, then split once over twelve feet. I bought a trumpet vine last year but am keeping it in a pot on my deck. First sign of little starts in the yard.. it's gone.
I grow mine In cloth pots where the roots can't escape from the pot, as a tree form they are stunning, I love my trumpet vine and my wisteria and so do my hummer and bees.
We had the same issue with Wisteria, it grew up the utility pole and caused a horrific fire but after that fire, we learned that it's so easy to control. As soon as you notice it growing up a pole, cut it at ground level and that will stop it for a while, it only takes a minute to cut it.
Privet is pretty invasive where I live and I used to have a neighbor that embraced it. She let it grow wild all over her yard, which meant it ended up growing in my yard. White gum eucalyptus can also grow to towering heights. They really need to be maintained by arborists or they’ll topple over.
I've inherited a full crop of bamboo (and to a lesser extent wisteria) in my garden in New Zealand (fabulous temperate climate that allows even the most reluctant plant to flourish). Over one year on, the war is still waging and unfortunately, many very desirable plants are having to be forfeited because they are too deeply intertwined with the bamboo. I am determined to beat it but it will have done a great deal of damage to my body and soul in the process. Linda, you never said a truer word when exhorting your audience to NEVER EVER plant it in their garden!
For the desirable plants you can try to airlayer some branches before you remove them, that way you can plant them again after you've finished waging your war against bamboo. Since the plants wont have their old roots there shouldn't be bamboo growing from it. Just make sure you pot up the newly rooted branches until you can plant them out.
I second the Virginia creeper. A previous owner planted it and I can't get rid of it. Plus I am highly allergic to it. I have it somewhat contained to the neighbors property only but it keeps coming back. Plus it has killed off two trees in our yard. It was on those trees prior to us moving in.
I love how wisteria looks. The developers had planted it and it didn't seem to be doing much until i saw it growing up through the porch planks. I cut it and dug it out. Quite the job.
My experience too. A couple of neighbours kept theirs and they look gorgeous. But out of a hundred hones, only 2 kept them. I wonder how many had them growing through their porch planks too?
@@tinamarie0701 get rid of yours too as it will damage your house foundations. Grow another one far away from the house. You can easily grow it from the seed you get from shop bought fruit. They grow like weeds. 😀
@@E-Kat thanks i have had it for over 20 years and its massive! I've been cutting it down slowly over the last few weeks... But its sandwiched between my house and my neighbors. Unfortunately it needs to go!
We grow bamboos in our garden, absolutely beautiful clump forming ones, statuesque and wonderful, we also have a splendid wisteria tree. I think our climate in the Uk allows us to grow probably a much larger range of plants. Oh we also have Virginia creeper giving us a fantastic display of autumnal colour. The wisteria on buildings in the U.K. gives a wonderful colour display in the spring. Trumpet vine struggles in my garden.
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.
My neighbor planted Wisteria right next to our common fence and it ended up strangling one of my small trees next to the fence and killing it. I had tried to keep up with cutting all vines around it's branches, but it became too hard to keep up with. Another thing I won't ever plant again is morning glory; it literally took over my back fence and the plantings along that fence.
Living in Washington, I agree with this list. I have two yards I upkeep and they both have bishops weed. The leaves are beautiful but this plant is something I try to remove every year because it chokes out other plants. # 2 on my list is Violet ground cover. This was a popular planting in my Historic district and almost home owner in the area fights it decades later. #3 is Yucca if the roots break off you get more plants durning removal which you have to dig out later. Starve this plant of water and it will eventually set out seed pods.
Hi. I live in Sydney, Australia. A few years ago we got our back garden landscaped and mentioned that we wanted some kind of tall plants to block the view from the apartment buildings a few hundred meters away. They suggested bamboos and boy did they ruin both ours and our neighbours' lives. A couple of years ago we had to pay a company to come and dig them completely out of our garden. We are still getting the odd shoot coming out here and there. As far as I'm concerned bamboo is the devil's plant.
Look for a plant called tiger grass instead of bamboo. I have it on my fence line and it is about 8ft tall has no runners and is only 2 foot wide from the fence line. It is a great for nosey neighbours but doesn’t take up much room. I will not plant the ivy now, thanks for the tips.
I like both Lilly of the valley and vinca, both considered too aggressive. I want a dense ground cover in that area so I have both there and let the, battle it out!
Couple varieties of fig trees do well in the desert. Once established very little maintenance. We had one fig tree producing fruits almost as big as tennis balls and sweet like jelly.
@@kimchee94112 in Australia we have a rock fig, which must source water in the rocks & exposes it's roots over & around cliffs etc. It's a desert dweller, rather special tree which probably provides food for native animals.
I am stuck with pepper trees on my back fence. They are from a large park who doesn't want to do the proper maintenance and they're taking away my morning sun and send shoots all over the place, not to mention the fact that hardly anything will grow under them. Pepper berries on my sidewalks also. When I moved in the fence was lined with different colors of oleanders. I preferred that
I have a wisteria but completely away from any and all trees, shrubs and plants. I planted in the very center of the yard and a pole about seven feet high , it’s about fifteen years old . I made a rectangle out of bamboo limbs and wrapped the corners in many little squares nailed it to the center post, so the wisteria wraps around and I have several bird houses and it looks beautiful. I keep it under control don’t get me wrong, but it does tend to get the roots coming out from the bottom but I cut them. It has absolutely no trees to torture ☺️ it’s just there , alone with her beautiful deep purple hanging flowers. My neighbors love it always a show stopper. But I really keep it under control , The front yard is so long that it looks lonesome, but that’s the way I like it. Honestly it does take vigilance. Also honey suckle but it’s not as badly behaved as wisteria. Thank You for sharing. Happy Gardening.
I have a large vegetable garden and three years ago I planted domestic blackberry plants. They are so invasive, we pulled them and I will be pulling blackberry roots to the day I die!
I’ve seen it stated online that a way to avoid that problem is to plant them inside of a container in the ground when planting them (supposedly it keeps them from being able to put out runners), BUT, of course, that strategy only works for as long as the container survives in the ground, which obviously isn’t forever. ..Good Luck, I hope You win Your War!..*smiles*
Wisteria was in the yard when I bought my home. It was up in the trees in the backyard and was beautiful when it bloomed that spring. 18 years later it has trailers across the entire 1/2 acre backyard and ruined the lawn. In a wooded area it grew through the privacy fence and some vines became large enough to break the fence boards. I finally cut all of the vines (some over 6” in diameter) that were climbing the trees but it is a constant battle to keep the thousands of shoots it puts up every year. The seed pods contain from 3 to 5 thumbnail sized seeds that are highly toxic to any pets who might chew on them. Keeping them from climbing has stopped the blooms and seed pods but they continue to grow by the shoots that come from huge underground roots. DO NOT PLANT IT, DO NOT BUY A HOUSE THAT HAS IT!!!!!!😱
I live in western Missouri and we inherited a huge Tree of Paradise when we bought our cottage (along with those other vines, except the wisteria) in our yard. That is one tree I would say never plant for it also sends up suckers everywhere and if you don't cut them down with the grass, you will have a jungle in no time flat. They also stink when you cut the baby trees down. Fortunately, the original tree has been cut down (it was hollow and in danger of falling over), but we still battle the sucker babies that sprout everywhere from the roots. My husband has even tried spraying brush killer to no avail -- it took care of the Virginia Creeper and the Trumpet Vine, but we still have the Tree of Paradise suckers, vinca and ivy growing everywhere. A friend told me that I would have to bulldoze my yard to get rid of every piece of root from the tree.
That is funny I agree with the bamboo and wisteria, but I lived in NJ and had Virginia creeper and wanted it to climb my deck but it kept dying, I also wanted trumpet vines and they would not grow either. There are many invasives like Japanese honeysuckle that are listed ast invasive but for some of us are just not.. Lovely garden thanks.
I have 8 acres and Honeysuckle and Virginia creeper have taken over our woods. I’ve been able to get rid of autumn olive but those two I cannot keep up with! I think even if I removed it 100% from our property the seeds from neighbors plants, via birds, may never stop.
Planting only natives has worked well for us, but we sadly inherited such things as Virginia Creeper, Rose of Sharon, Silver Maple, Burning Bush, vinca, and some type of reed-y grass.
Linda that was a very sweet and informative presentation and I just removed a bunch of ENGLISH IVEY that I will never ever plant again.... The professional had to bring in a small piece of equipment to scrape the whole area clean!. THANKS FOR THE ADDITIONAL TIPS BECAUSE THAT AREA IS GOING TO HAVE TO BE REPLANTED SOON... GA USA 👍🙋🌹
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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.
At my old house I had a wisteria, but I trained it into a tree. Looked like an umbrella. I kept it pruned and had zero issues. At this house, however the neighbors untended wisteria is constantly trying to take over our split-rail fence so my husband prunes it.
Still Mandeville. I love wisteria too, but it's not the idea of having one in a pot. Wisteria seeds are dispersed throughout forests and competes and overgrows over trees, killing them. Forsythe Wildlife Natural Area in New Jersey is where I was convinced that it truly is an invasive.
I have a terrible terrible problem with wisteria! It came over from a neighbor's yard and has now killed a group of Leyland cypress trees and it's threatening to keep going down the line. I cannot kill it. It comes up from the ground and it travels over in the tree crown.
Really love it though!
I have wisteria it behaves itself, dry climate poor soil
Good to know! Is a lovely plant
I'm in Victoria Australia wisteria is beautiful and can be controlled. A neighbour had hers growing as a 'tree'. This was achieved by using a stake that supported the trunk and allowed the top to umbrella. Took a lot of pruning but truly a beautiful effect.
My late wife loved wisteria and controlled it.
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. 😒
I was at Lowe’s this week and a young couple was buying rosemary plants. Lots of them. About 20 plants. I asked them what they ere going to do with all that rosemary. “We just love to cook with rosemary. I just love it!” I suggested that the might not need that many plants and to put the in a large pot. I told them i have one I have had for at least 15 years and it is huge. They declined my suggestion and said the needed that many. I reminded myself of how many times I have gone my own way in the garden. And maybe one day I will be able to keep my suggestions to myself!!! 😜
Let them learn the hard way, I suppose.
Ignorance is bliss...unfortunately. Never know, someone will listen one day so keeping informing ppl. I do :)
Oklancie Laen 😂
Wow that certainly is a lot of rosemary 😂 I’m sure they will regret not taking your advice!
Tiramisu Mochi 😂
You’re so right. My sister asked my Dad years ago how to get rid of English Ivy. He said “Move” 😉🤣
As an author of a book on Hedera, all this Hederaphobia is unjustified and scientific literature on invasiveness only applies to two basic species in their wild form, H. helix and H. hibernica - not to the hundreds of non-invasive, slow, self-branching, compact clones. Not one of the Exotic Angel stuff like you see at Home Depot could ever spread far or take over - genetically and morphologically impossible. The houseplant type material is never invasive and I have had plants 10 years old that were just 2-3 feet across. If you want beautiful variegated and cutleaf ivies one can always plant them against a tree and trim off anything going horizontal into beds.
Oh, that is hilarious! English Ivy is one of my nemeses as well; even when it was somewhat in control, it was prone to black spot and aphids...which then created an ant problem. So we moved, 😉.
Yeah ... I can't get rid of my neighbor's English ivy, lilies of the valley, burning bush, thorn berries, and nightshade that all snuck into our yard. Who pays to get any of these?
As for bamboo, if it's planted in a deep pot as an accent, that can work. I do the same with raspberries. In a raised bed lined with 10mil plastic sheets.
Love it!
English ivy didn't take in my garden. I tried so hard to get it to grow.
I have Virginia creeper growing over my fence just like yours. Before I regard it as a weed, but now I've come to appreciate it. It hides my ugly fence and it becomes a beautiful red in the autumn. I give it a haircut once a month. I'd like to think of my flowers as performers on stage with Virginia creeper as the curtains.
LOL! 🙂
Well-said. It's a magnificent plant. I saw some at a local nursery a couple of years ago. You are inspiring me to take another look there. We're in AZ, and it might be best to plant it in the fall...?
I bought a house with the bamboo, Virginia creeper, and trumpet vine growing vigorously in my back yard. It's been 4 years of trying to get the bamboo under control. The Virginia creeper is like you said more easily controlled. I cut back the trumpet vine to 1 stalk and will be trying to train and control it. I wish people would think before they plant something because they like the look of it.
A tip for bamboo if you're opposed to herbicide (my personal recommendation) is to hack the bamboo shoots down, wait for them to shoot again (they can go from stump to full height in a matter of days) and then take off all the vertical growth just as it puts out the horizontal leaf stalks. This process must be repeated over and over until it eventually runs out of energy stores in the root and dies, you've basically got to stop it going into leaf because those leaves feed the root and recoup the energy lost by shooting. It's a pretty arduous task hence why I recommend herbicide as a primary means of control
I 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.
English Ivy is definitely on that list. Here in Georgia, there is so much kudzu that was planted in the 1930s for erosion control. They finally realized what a problem it was, but it was too late. The south is still having to deal with it nearly 100 years later.
Years ago when I first read about kudzu, i thought it sounded like a great idea to cover a railing. Fortunately my husband caught me. He shared with me that it was a terrible idea and explained why.
Thank G-d!!
Yes. Kudzu grows over everything! I always feel sorry for all the plants and trees being suffocated!
@@mountaingirl4252 Oh my gosh! When we first moved to Georgia ('90) I asked what that was that looked like it was devouring massive pine trees. It was kudzu! We were shown a picture of the same exact place 2 yrs before. It showed people removing a VERY small patch of the horrible blight now in Georgia and using a back hoe to dig up all around the area, hoping to rid the woods of Kudzu. Unfortunately, 2 yrs after that picture was taken, the entire area was smoothered by Kudzu! 3 yrs later many of the beautiful pines had fallen under the weight and suffocation caused by that horrendous vine.
Ah, yes. Kudzu - the plant that ate the South.
Yes, Arkansas, between Wynn AR. and Memphis TN. it's out of control BAD.
Omg! Bought a house that had a wisteria and after 20 years, I took it out. So much work with little reward. To keep under control, I was pruning every week and consequently, removing buds in the process. Removing roots is a nightmare. Felt bad while removing it, but after two weeks, I am ecstatic it is gone, just wish I had done it 19 years ago!
My neighbors grow dill in their backyard. This spring I spotted a group of them growing in the oddest location of my yard. I yanked them out root and all. Month later I noticed another group of dill growing opposite end of the first group spotted. This time I embraced it. We are grilling more fish this summer. Que sera sera.
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So many herbs strongly evince childhood memories forme...good ones. Many I don't even use for cooking. But I cherish the aromas.
I've tried for years to grow just a bit of dill. Never successfully! Shouldn't be so hard. I live near NYC. What could I be doing wrong?
I am so jealous. It’s hard to grow here in my garden & 1 of my top 5 herbs. Fennel grows like a weed here - but dill - a struggle.
@@claudiaphilippe5655 You can just toss the seeds around now in a sunny area of soil that you will not disturb.
They don't need any attention at all. Then in the spring, sprinkle some more. If you sprinkle some seeds every month during the warmer months, you'll have dill from spring to freeze up.
All of these 'weeds' will do their thing without much or any assistance from us.
Then let a couple of plants grow to maturity. They produce huge amounts of seeds and you will
never be dill-free.
@@claudiaphilippe5655 You're trying too hard. Through the seeds in the yard and wait.
Important video. I planted a wisteria vine and it started to destroy my fence. I immediately had it removed. I planted 'clumping' bamboo as a privacy screen and it's totally fine. Must be CLUMPING bamboo. The only thing I don't like about it are the tiny leaves that it drops. It's been in my garden for over 10 years and has only spread a few feet and it's easy to cut the new stems because they pop up next to the original plant instead of sending out shoots everywhere.
The shedding is usually due to drought. Bamboos are very thirsty plants
So clumping is ok.
I have English ivy, trumpet vine, wisteria and ruellia that people are all against and I don't personally have a problem with them. We keep them trimmed back responsibly and that makes all the difference. Your garden is lovely.
Agreed. I grew up along the Little Calumet River in Chicago. My parents also had a lovely garden like this lady's. As I got older, I added vegetables and other flowers. The yard was lovingly tended; trees included Maple, Bur Oak, Cottonwood, Honeylocust, Spruce, Elm, Willow, Birch, Plum, Cherry and Ash. Vines included Wild Grape and Virginia Creeper. They had no "pests" to speak of, though the Willows had aphids, and we would never put any of our plants on a "don't plant" list, unless one had a very small property.
I think differentiating running bamboo from clumping is important. I've grown the slower growing, clumping varieties (fargesia rufa, robusta, nitida) on our fence lines for 20 years without it invading the neighbor's gardens. And it's gorgeous. I do have running varieties but those have to stay in pots.
Good point, clumping bamboos are very well behaved and are nothing like the running bamboos, just don't expect much growth from them either.
I was just going to make that point. Clumping bamboo is wonderful, I planted timber bamboo, it was 3 inches across at the base and 30 feet tall.
Running bamboo can pop up 10 feet away from the parent plant and can push itself up through asphalt, you will need to contain it with a hard plastic barrier at least three feet down.
Yup if you love bamboo but don't like the outta control nature of it clumping bamboo is the way to go. It's very well behaved but in my opinion not as attractive. I like the variegated runners like Alphonse Carr lol if that's spelled right, and others like the green and white pygmy. I set lose LOL 4 different runners on my property and have made a fairly successful video called "the monsters called the running bamboo" that shows my ignorance, hatred, and unconditional love of these crazy plants. I was out cutting bamboo outta my neighbors yard earlier questioning why I ever planted it.....but I still love it cuz there's nothing quite like it! Maybe God will bless me and my neighbors by the bamboo blooming before I get to old to control it.🤞🤞🤞🤞🙏🙏🙏🙏
I bought my running bamboo from my local garden center. I had no idea there was a differnce and the person at the center should've warned me. I almost had a disaster. I lined a hole I dug with pool liner but the bamboo simply went over it and re-established and began invading my lawn...I finally killed it all off..clumping sounds like the way to go..
@@cherylmillard2067 Mine went right over the barrier and it was 5 inches above the earth..
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.
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
Totally agree about the trumpet vine. If you have trumpet vine, keep it away from the house. I've seen it take root and grow in cracks of an old Victorian house.
In the uk we prune our wisteria every year. To a tight framework- actually you prune twice a year in the winter/early spring. Very easy. No big deal really. You certainly never just let it grow wild like that.
I don't think it grows so vigorously here in the UK, at least I've never seen one grow that enormous.
its not what you can see is the problem its what is going on under the ground take it from someone who has spent days digging up way war tendrils it even penetrated the landscape fabric that i had laid in the vain hope of controlling its expansion!
Same with buddleia and many other plants really. The threat is over exaggerated... probably to get more views.
lol I can promise, though it may be easy to tame in the UK, it is NOT in Northeast Texas. I’ve seen it take over with experienced gardeners throwing everything they know at it. It takes down strong fences with its weight. Tears down power lines. Crosses roads. I love seeing it in bloom…but once it gets going, there’s just no stopping it.
@@Freedom27401 i guess we just prune ours very hard back to a framework early every spring.
Linda's advice is so accurate, I am a professional gardener and I earn a lot of money removing out of control bamboo and secondly ivy. This ladies advice is well worth taking on board.
I disagree strongly on the bamboo one, bamboo is a wonderplant that has been shown to
be a carbon sponge 'Bamboo’s fast-growing and renewable stands sequester carbon in their biomass - at rates comparable, or even superior to, a number of tree species. The many durable products made from bamboo can also be potentially carbon-negative, because they act as locked-in carbon sinks in themselves and encourage the expansion and improved management of bamboo forests.'
Mh-hm. When I moved in to my house the previous owner thought it was a "wonderful" idea to plant bamboo in the back yard. I researched it and sure enough found out that it was a take over plant. And I left it for a bit and sure enough it was growing outward. So I took on the tedious job over the next few months of digging it up, and anytime it shot up I would dig into the root system and have to put root killer. They had also planted a couple trees next to the house, how where they not worried about the root system bothering the foundation! Well it took me a couple of years and about a thousand dollars but I was able to remove all the unpleasant plants and trees. I did whatever I could by myself, the rest I had to pay to take out.
@@hihosh1 anyone with neighbors needs to put in a rhizome barrier before planting bamboo. It's the gift that keeps on giving.
What is you secret to removing English ivy? I am doing battle w 30% vinegar, and seems to be making a little headway. I strongly prefer natural solutions. Any ideas? Thanks in advance.
@@hihosh1 That doesn't mean it makes a good garden plant, especially if you have neighbors.
Your garden is stunning 💗 in Rhode Island, that one thing never to plant would be our state flower, the violet! I inherited them and 30 years later, I have never eradicated them. It's impossible. However, I have recently heard they are edible, so at least I wouldn't starve. ☺️
Love violets
I live in Colorado-never plant Tamarisk or Aspen trees, in Colorado, for all the reasons Linda mentions!! Learned the heard way.
I live in San Francisco. The guy next door has a little forest of it in his small yard with pink/purple bouginvilla, mixed in. It is absolutely gorgeous!!!!!! When the sun is rising and setting, the colors are STUNNING!!!!! 😉😉💖💜💕But he does have to have someone come in and thin it.
Bougainvillea, even though it can become GINORMOUS, at least it can take a good hard trimming every year to keep control over it. I once lived in a house where a previous owner planted bougainvillea in a 2.5' deep strip of dirt between the driveway and house. We could not use the driveway after mid June. That winter, we had a hard frost and it really burnt the plant. So, late winter, I pruned it down to 18" tall. The neighbors came over and yelled at me and told me I was killing the plant they waited to see bloom every spring. I told them about how badly it had been frost burnt and how I fully intended to use my driveway now. I also said I thought it would be fine considering it can grow upwards of a foot a week in the summer. Well, come spring and after the plant had grown to about 4' tall, they came over saying I had ruined the plant as it had no blooms that year. I suggested they be more patient as the blooms come on the tips of the shoots and the shoots had to be a certain age before they would bloom. Sure enough, in another couple of weeks, it started blooming. By the end of August, it had grown so tall, it went over the edge of my extra tall roof. That winter I pruned it again but only to about 4' tall with no complaints from the neighbors.
Thank you, much appreciated from this young gardener. Summary;
1.Bamboo
2. Wisteria
3. Virginia Creeper
4. Trumpet Vine
5. Know your own geography/climate plant issues
I was scared of peppermint, but I pulled a lot out before fall and dried it for tea all winter. It has spread everywhere in the small patch but easy enough to pull back to tidy.🙏
Oh yes, mint is very aggressive, it will regrow, at least can be easily pulled out.
@@majawow mine died. No mojitos 😓
I 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
The neighbor at my old house had Boston ivy on a fence between our yards. It came over, under, and between the slats. It was on the ground in my flower bed also. She never trimmed it. I was glad to finally move.
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.
In parts of South New Jersey there is a purple wisteria that had escaped from gardens & u can see it on poles & fences & tall trees from the highways when driving thru.
I would also put any honeysuckle vine on that list. And Bittersweet vine too!!!!
Black eyed Susans & daisies & Asian plants & butterfly bushes & some grasses too.
Lynn R.
I live in drought ridden Texas panhandle. I have beautiful Virginia Creeper covered fences. Yes, it takes a little work to keep it contained, but in our brown countryside, its refreshing to see the green. I also have Trumpet Vine and because we have so little rainfall, it isn't a problem. Same with my Wisteria, so little rainfall that its easy to keep in check. I'm a vine lover!
I'm so sorry! I forgot to mention what the little forest was! It's bamboo! I'm the comment from San Francisco. And its truly stunning.
I love that...not a bad plant, just the bad usage of a plant. 😊😊👏🏼👏🏼
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?
I planted a native wisteria 6 or 7 years ago and last summer was the first sign of any real growth. My garden is not close to any neighbor so I don’t have that concern.
Of course, at the rate it’s growing, I will be planted before it flowers.
I 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.
My mom planted a trumpet vine years ago...against my earnings. 20 years later and it’s taken over the neighborhood.
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Thank you for the information. I just bought trumpet vine. It will stay in 50 gall container. I will keep on eye on this so I can trim whenever it need to. I want to use it for privacy around the pool area.
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@@abbyabuyuan7675 Don’t do it! My husband planted a trumpet vine and it was on the roof. I’m still fighting it off after 15 years. Ditto for bamboo.
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I am clueless as to how Virginia Creeper ended up growing in my garden. Probably from a bird dropping a seed because my neighbors don't have it growing. It grows along the my bedroom windows and I love the draping it does and the birds build their nest in it. The branches also make great wreath forms because of their flexibility. I have free wreaths to decorate with for the holidays!🤗
Oh! I never thought of that! I hate our creeper. It climbs our 70 ft blue spruce. I decorate wreaths so now I can make my own instead of buying. Woot!
I can't get rid of the Virginia creeper and it damages the morter in my brick wall.
I have every one of those plants in my yard, and I love them. Ivy and creeper like the shade so it doesn't invade the well lighted areas. Wisteria can be pruned from time to time - and should be! Each plant adds something to the landscape and all of them are like children, they need some degree of supervision. My yard has a type of bloom in it year round and it adds a little cheer.
I rip out any Virginia creeper that rears it’s head. The neighbor has it climbing up trees so I can enjoy the autumn color without too much trouble.
I started a wisteria a few years ago & it’s still limping along (too much shade, maybe this year it’ll finally grow)
@@jorgehoran1691 It takes a couple of years (depending on the soil) for the wisteria roots to become established, and then it will take off. If it has something to climb on, it will grow straight up, seeking the sunlight. In a few more years, you will need to keep it pruned, or it will take over a location.
Beautifully said as I have all those plans as well!
I can NOT get rid of the Virginia Creeper in my yard... most especially in my juniper. It’s an inherited problem. Ugh
@@leighcontella811 When the ground is soft, you can often pull it up by the roots. I don't know your soil type, but in hard clay, just cut out all the roots you can find.
I have had Virginian Creeper (Woodbine) in two woodland gardens, including my current one. Whether it's desirable to plant it or not depends on your climate, what kind of garden you have and how you care for the garden. The roots are quite shallow and very easy to pull out completely if desired. I keep it as a ground cover for the deep blue-toned green and the fine leaf shape. Unlike ivy, it clings to trees and buildings by pads that do NOT penetrate into brick, mortar, etc. Training it to run up a mature tree trunk is fine if desired. This is the plant (not ivy) you see in photos of big English estate houses.
I'm a zone 7, and virginia creeper that i didn't even plant killed 3 of my rose bushes and has started on a hibiscus tree.
WHAT A BEAUTIFUL garden with a beautiful lady I can tell she's got lots of class and she's educated!!!
Thank you for sharing to us
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.....
Yes! Carolina Jasmine...was so pretty climbing my wrought iron trellis until it dragged it down. Last year I took out the vine and the trellis and thought it was all gone, wrong. Evidently the root is traveling under my stone patio because I found it climbing my blueberry bushes this year. 😳 Also, Cypress Vine! I planted it to climb over the support of a swing. I bet I pulled out hundreds of little starts popping up all over my gravel and in the grass around the swing. Grrrr. 🤪 I’m in zone 8a, Georgia. Love that you are helping everyone avoid the other bad ones! ❤️
Joy Whitley Hi Joy...I thought the cypress vine was sooo cute when I was gifted some babies years ago from a friend...you know the rest of the story😂
NaturalLife 😜lol!!
We are constantly battling with trumpet vines. They are pretty when in bloom but would never make this mistake again.
What if I plant it on a large planter.....
Would that keep it from
Multiplying?
@@flowerpower2079 That should help contain them. Ours flower and drop lots of seed pods though so watch out for them also.
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It's such a beautiful vine. But after some research, I decided not to buy it after all 😞.
I read that the roots go down 9-inches deep & even a planter cannot contain them. It really saddens me because it would look so beautiful on my fence.
Thank you so much for telling me about the seeds.
P.S. are you currently battling this vine?
@@flowerpower2079 They are beautiful lush vines and they look great flanking our patio (as you may have seen in our videos) but we continue to battle them and they seem to get worse every year. They weave themselves into the roots of our roses and shrubs and pop up all over the lawn! It’s probably for the best that you learned about them now and can avoid the headaches.
I am constantly cutting the shoots out of my flower beds. Pain in the neck for sure.
I absolutely adore my wisteria. It is very established and also very large. It scales the front of the house and branches off both left and right. So the whole front of the house is in bloom Spring/Summer. However, I needs yearly pruning as it grows so quickly. I believe the homeowners before us did a great job at training it correctly. If we let it grow higher, I believe it would grow into the roof tiles.... which wouldn’t be good.
I agree. It is gorgeous.
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Good video. I just chopped out 5 huge pampas grasses that I foolishly planted around my pool ten years ago. I enjoy your videos. Beautiful garden.
I'm in New England and would add Bittersweet to that list. I made the mistake of scattering some seeds years ago for the vine and berries that are commonly used in door wreaths here. It grows and travels underground and comes up everywhere, grows on telephone poles and is seen on roadsides and growing up trees. While it is green and beautiful to look at, it is terribly invasive.
So right about the trumpet vine! We have eradicated it from almost everywhere in the yard but we left it run amok in the black walnut trees. The flowers of the vine reach up the trees at least 30 feet and look magnificent in bloom. People stop and ask what kind of tree it is that has such big orange blooms. The hummers really enjoy it.
Hi Dot, I am obsessed with trumpet vine and finally managed to propagate it from seeds and stems cuttings. Now I watched this video and am concerned that it will overtake my little home destroy it and strangle the trees I am so upset what to do?
OMG I fought Wisteria for years on the property we bought, it was so out of control, almost impossible to get rid of. It was like a monster. The feeders spread all over the yard what a nightmare. I have had to cut wisteria vines so thick it took a CHAINSAW to get through them. DON'T PLANT IT.
I know!!!😱😱😱
Sounds like you had a real problem...it was clearly an old plant which had been allowed to go native...was it against a wall? better to have cut it back severely and trained the new tendrils( feeders I think are what you call them) onto a trellis and remember the flower pinniculs...grow on 12 month old shoots so remember this and prune gently every year.
@@hotoneinspai No, it was a neighbor's "plant" that eventually made it's way onto our 4 acres, it went wild.
@@hotoneinspai You can't control it's roots, it spreads underground all over and will go on and on showing up in places you never expected.
Use salt it kills everything
In South Florida it is the Dragon Tree. The root is large and big as a trench. You’ll need a bull dozer with digging ability. And if a thumb size fall to the ground, one month, it’s growing all over again.
I don't know how it performs in South Florida but in Sarasota (zone 9b) the worst thing you can plant is the muscadine grape. They will grow everywhere and if not controlled, you'll have vines - thick enough for Tarzan to swing on - growing all up and down your trees. They spread by underground branches and will invade every section of your property. I'm speaking from experience.
Als oleander it's pretty but poisonous the realtor will make you pull them out in order to sell your home
My neighbor has a bamboo in her garden and I am so tired to fight it, especially because it grown in the very steep hill and I it is very dangerous to climb there. Once I fell from that hill, I am glad I haven’t broken any bone. I wish she watched your video. I was thinking about planting wisteria but after watching this I won’t. Thank you.
"And I don't advocate using nuclear devises in the garden, in general" Absolutely love your sense of humor!
I agree with all of your list and have fought them all. I do grow a clumping bamboo and it is very controllable in a home garden, but if in doubt don't grow it. I harvest the seed pods from my trumpet vine before they pop open and that has helped a bunch. I live in a desert climate and can grow ivy, vinca major and chameleon plant and let intense sun and heat control them, but in Pacific NW they are huge problems. Redbuds are another free seeding tree that require a lot of work.
I'm glad I saw this. I adore Chinese wisteria. Every spring you can ride around rural parts of Georgia with your windows down to smell the beautiful scent. And who hasn't marvelled at those beautiful images of European storefronts and cottages covered in the blossoms?
This past weekend I finally bought some little starter plants. Thankfully, because of limited space and the need to be able to move them when I move, I never planned to plant them in the ground. I hope to bonsai one and plant two others in two big planters pushed up against a trellis. I'm still concerned I'll need to watch for vines attempting to creep over the pot edges, but I'm prepared for aggressive pruning if necessary. These will never go into the ground!
They should really be required to put warnings on the packaging or not make these available!
I love the idea of training it in a container!
I've lived in hot climates, Houston and Baltimore. In both cities I saw mature trees - oaks - into which wisteria had grown extensively. In the spring it looked as if the entire tree was in bloom. These were very old, mature wisteria but they had not damaged the mature trees. It does depend greatly on how these plants are planted and what they grow on. In years of growth, neither of these plants had spread at all to the ground around the trees.
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.
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.
Also that came with the property is a vine called wild grape, it makes a good hedge over the wire fence put there but needs constant pruning and maintenance
I agree. Wild grapes are much harder to control than Virginia Creeper for me.
Good advice on Wisteria is to plant it away from anything it can "attach" onto. Plant it away from other trees, from other plants, away from the house, a wall, etc. Plant it in an open space with full sun. It will grow similar to a Lilac bush or Rose of Sharon.
I think a tree formed wisteria is beautiful. Have to stay on it though. Don't let the canes run on the ground.
They are truly beautiful, but there really isn't a way to keep them away from everything else. At least not in my zone 8 climate. The problem is the runners under the soil. I'm still battling them and the tree was removed a year ago. I had to get rid of it. It was suffocating my gardenia.
@@stacey_d I must have American wisteria plants instead of the Asian varieties… because I haven’t seen any shooters pop up. If they are popping up, they are mowed down as soon as they sprout by the lawn mower.
@@stacey_d I must have American wisteria plants instead of the Asian varieties… because I haven’t seen any shooters pop up. If they are popping up, they are mowed down as soon as they sprout by the lawn mower.
@@LeviPageTV you are lucky. Yes, I think my wisteria was an Asian variety. Enjoy!
Oh my goodness me, your garden!!! It is delicious! I'm almost there with the sounds and smells. Spring is almost sprung and I can't wait to get back out into my garden. It has been such a good place for my head this last year.
Love to watch your shows my 13 year old has gotten into gardening and she is a faithful viewer. Thank you.
Oh my Linda, i am sooo with You with that bamboo! Had to learn that lesson on my own, i planted one like about 15 years ago and all went fine the first lets say three years. But then i started finding little bamboo plants like even five or ten meters away and finally radically tried to dig the whole thing out which was a huuuuge amount of work. Still finding rests of it now and then and if i´d not be after it the bamboo propably still would take over the garden completely in some years...
Clumping bamboo vs running bamboo. Clumping bamboo will grow out in a circle, it is controllable. Running bamboo is uncontrollable and should be against the law or code in every city.
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Yes that is true! Ihave several clumping bamboo in my garden and they are so beautiful!
I was thinking about planting clumping bamboo as a privacy screen, but now I’m a little nervous. Do you have any experience with graceful bamboo or Seabreeze bamboo?
@@jamesthomas1123 Are you asking me? I only have experience with Fargesia murielae. I have 3 in my garden, different heights
I couldn't agree more about Wysteria! My old yard had it in the yard when I bought the place and oh my lord it was on the ground and rooting everywhere
I agree 100% about trumpet vine. It is a pest. One plant you don't mention is tradescantia (spiderwort.) It is an invasive plant - even grows in the cracks of the sidewalk.
Its also lovely.
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...
Wow. I haven't even watched all of this yet but looked at the list of the plants you're advising against and realize I've been actively considering THREE of them! Thanks for the heads-up!
Thanks for this video very informative for me I'm a zone 7....my neighbor has a hedge of rose of Sharon. I dread the Fall... ugh the seed heads!!! The wind blows them clear across to the other side of my property and all in between😡😢
I have a couple and now when I cut them back I lay a tarp or sheet under them and dispose all the seed heads that drop! This has really saved me a lot of work by greatly reducing hand weeding.
We just purchased a home in North central Oklahoma. The yard all the way around has rose of Sharon --some 12 to 15 FEET wide and just as tall!! We're attacking it with chain saws. It is a life long work in progress.
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?
Thank you for this video. English ivy, Irish ivy and vine clematis are also some to mention that grow just like Wisteria.
I just had my husband dig up our wisteria! It was driving me crazy! We planted a pink lady slipper hydrangea in it's place! So glad that it's gone, but it took a lot of digging! Those wisteria roots are enormous!!
You have to plant clumping bamboo and do it like raspberries-raised bed ONLY!
ONLY plant trumpet vine and wisteria as a specimen "tree" in the middle of your lawn-gorgeous like that-otherwise yeah-forget it! There is a false Virginia creeper that has no suckers and I butcher mine every fall, but best to drape it over chain link and have it along lawn.
English ivy is my nemesis.. huge bed full of it when I moved here....3 yrs later still fighting it...
Look on the bright side, other than cutting it back once in a while, you'll never have to mow it.
The bee's and butterflies any buzzy insect loves the flowers of Ivy, when they opened you could hear the buzzing 50 feet away.
English Ivy - Yep, it’s everywhere that’s shady.
I eliminated it in my yard, but not my neighbors and it’s back.
I fought a war against it after it started delaminating the brick on my 1890's house. I lost. Moved and it's probably still there.
Ivy, honeysuckle, Vining Jasmine, Virginia Creeper, mints, kudzu, mimosa, Morning Glory, onions and Tut grass are extremely invasive in our area. Bradford pears grow fast, then split once over twelve feet.
I bought a trumpet vine last year but am keeping it in a pot on my deck. First sign of little starts in the yard.. it's gone.
I grow mine In cloth pots where the roots can't escape from the pot, as a tree form they are stunning, I love my trumpet vine and my wisteria and so do my hummer and bees.
Great idea👍
We had wisteria that was killing the trees on the riverbank it took 3 years of judicious use of Tordon to eradicate it.
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.
100% agree with all of this. Wisteria root damage is horrific too.
Privet is pretty invasive where I live and I used to have a neighbor that embraced it. She let it grow wild all over her yard, which meant it ended up growing in my yard. White gum eucalyptus can also grow to towering heights. They really need to be maintained by arborists or they’ll topple over.
Privet can be nasty! Where do you garden Ryan?
I've inherited a full crop of bamboo (and to a lesser extent wisteria) in my garden in New Zealand (fabulous temperate climate that allows even the most reluctant plant to flourish). Over one year on, the war is still waging and unfortunately, many very desirable plants are having to be forfeited because they are too deeply intertwined with the bamboo. I am determined to beat it but it will have done a great deal of damage to my body and soul in the process. Linda, you never said a truer word when exhorting your audience to NEVER EVER plant it in their garden!
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For the desirable plants you can try to airlayer some branches before you remove them, that way you can plant them again after you've finished waging your war against bamboo. Since the plants wont have their old roots there shouldn't be bamboo growing from it.
Just make sure you pot up the newly rooted branches until you can plant them out.
I second the Virginia creeper. A previous owner planted it and I can't get rid of it. Plus I am highly allergic to it. I have it somewhat contained to the neighbors property only but it keeps coming back. Plus it has killed off two trees in our yard. It was on those trees prior to us moving in.
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Me too!! I hate those things I had no idea people planted them I thought they were just like weeds cause they are everywhere around here!
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 love how wisteria looks. The developers had planted it and it didn't seem to be doing much until i saw it growing up through the porch planks. I cut it and dug it out. Quite the job.
My experience too. A couple of neighbours kept theirs and they look gorgeous. But out of a hundred hones, only 2 kept them. I wonder how many had them growing through their porch planks too?
It May sound strange, but the fig tree is a monster where I live. It pokes through concrete everywhere in my yard.
Yes, I had to get rid of mine as it was too close to the house!
And they harbor rats!
@@E-Kat i have the same problem
@@tinamarie0701 get rid of yours too as it will damage your house foundations. Grow another one far away from the house. You can easily grow it from the seed you get from shop bought fruit. They grow like weeds. 😀
@@E-Kat thanks i have had it for over 20 years and its massive! I've been cutting it down slowly over the last few weeks... But its sandwiched between my house and my neighbors. Unfortunately it needs to go!
Wisteria is a very sought after plant here in the UK. It doesn't seem to be a problem. Must depend on the climate.
The climate, and the variety.
American wisteria is much easier
Chinese wisteria is very aggressive
Kills trees
Never plant
We grow bamboos in our garden, absolutely beautiful clump forming ones, statuesque and wonderful, we also have a splendid wisteria tree. I think our climate in the Uk allows us to grow probably a much larger range of plants. Oh we also have Virginia creeper giving us a fantastic display of autumnal colour. The wisteria on buildings in the U.K. gives a wonderful colour display in the spring. Trumpet vine struggles in my garden.
Yes I agree. Not a problem over here. You just have to prune it twice a year and cut back the twine at the base of the plant too.
snappyeileen I agree with you about Wisteria but bamboo never!
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.
My neighbor planted Wisteria right next to our common fence and it ended up strangling one of my small trees next to the fence and killing it. I had tried to keep up with cutting all vines around it's branches, but it became too hard to keep up with. Another thing I won't ever plant again is morning glory; it literally took over my back fence and the plantings along that fence.
Living in Washington, I agree with this list. I have two yards I upkeep and they both have bishops weed. The leaves are beautiful but this plant is something I try to remove every year because it chokes out other plants. # 2 on my list is Violet ground cover. This was a popular planting in my Historic district and almost home owner in the area fights it decades later. #3 is Yucca if the roots break off you get more plants durning removal which you have to dig out later. Starve this plant of water and it will eventually set out seed pods.
Hi. I live in Sydney, Australia. A few years ago we got our back garden landscaped and mentioned that we wanted some kind of tall plants to block the view from the apartment buildings a few hundred meters away. They suggested bamboos and boy did they ruin both ours and our neighbours' lives. A couple of years ago we had to pay a company to come and dig them completely out of our garden. We are still getting the odd shoot coming out here and there. As far as I'm concerned bamboo is the devil's plant.
A friend of mine had it all along her back fence. Then she got a goat! The goat ate them down to nubs. LOL
Look for a plant called tiger grass instead of bamboo. I have it on my fence line and it is about 8ft tall has no runners and is only 2 foot wide from the fence line. It is a great for nosey neighbours but doesn’t take up much room. I will not plant the ivy now, thanks for the tips.
@@tinasteer2507 Hi Tina. Thank you for the suggestion. Will look that up.
@@lizbeth9222 Hahahah Liz, that's gold!
Great advice Linda. For me, it's English Ivy and Lily of the Valley!
Lily if the valley? Really? I have it in my garden and it doesn’t seem to be an issue. Maybe our climate is different to yours.
I like both Lilly of the valley and vinca, both considered too aggressive.
I want a dense ground cover in that area so I have both there and let the, battle it out!
Oh....Lily of the Valley? I would LOVE to have them growing in my garden, but it doesn't work. Probably the wrong soil and not a real shady place.
I guess I'm lucky to live in an environment where I am just happy to see anything survive let alone become a problem - except for tumble weeds.
Yeah, that's like me. See other comment re: my battle with Achillia.
trumpet vine even in Arizona, never see the end of it without a couple of years of drought And digging up all roots
Lol. We must be neighbors😁.
Couple varieties of fig trees do well in the desert. Once established very little maintenance. We had one fig tree producing fruits almost as big as tennis balls and sweet like jelly.
@@kimchee94112 in Australia we have a rock fig, which must source water in the rocks & exposes it's roots over & around cliffs etc. It's a desert dweller, rather special tree which probably provides food for native animals.
I am stuck with pepper trees on my back fence. They are from a large park who doesn't want to do the proper maintenance and they're taking away my morning sun and send shoots all over the place, not to mention the fact that hardly anything will grow under them. Pepper berries on my sidewalks also. When I moved in the fence was lined with different colors of oleanders. I preferred that
I have a wisteria but completely away from any and all trees, shrubs and plants.
I planted in the very center of the yard and a pole about seven feet high , it’s about fifteen years old .
I made a rectangle out of bamboo limbs and wrapped the corners in many little squares nailed it to the center post, so the wisteria wraps around and I have several bird houses and it looks beautiful.
I keep it under control don’t get me wrong, but it does tend to get the roots coming out from the bottom but I cut them. It has absolutely no trees to torture ☺️ it’s just there , alone with her beautiful deep purple hanging flowers.
My neighbors love it always a show stopper.
But I really keep it under control ,
The front yard is so long that it looks lonesome, but that’s the way
I like it.
Honestly it does take vigilance.
Also honey suckle but it’s not as badly behaved as wisteria.
Thank You for sharing.
Happy Gardening.
grafted wisteria in container simply EXCELLENT!!! bamboo in container simply EXCELLENT!!!
I wish I could give this comment 1,000 likes. I love bamboo, but I’ve resisted planting it. Container bamboo, here I come!!!
Bamboo escapes
I have a large vegetable garden and three years ago I planted domestic blackberry plants. They are so invasive, we pulled them and I will be pulling blackberry roots to the day I die!
I’ve seen it stated online that a way to avoid that problem is to plant them inside of a container in the ground when planting them (supposedly it keeps them from being able to put out runners), BUT, of course, that strategy only works for as long as the container survives in the ground, which obviously isn’t forever. ..Good Luck, I hope You win Your War!..*smiles*
My goodness so glad I planted mine in a barrel. Whew
"I dont advocate using nuclear devices in the garden". I love this lady already. Subscribed.
Wisteria was in the yard when I bought my home. It was up in the trees in the backyard and was beautiful when it bloomed that spring. 18 years later it has trailers across the entire 1/2 acre backyard and ruined the lawn. In a wooded area it grew through the privacy fence and some vines became large enough to break the fence boards. I finally cut all of the vines (some over 6” in diameter) that were climbing the trees but it is a constant battle to keep the thousands of shoots it puts up every year. The seed pods contain from 3 to 5 thumbnail sized seeds that are highly toxic to any pets who might chew on them. Keeping them from climbing has stopped the blooms and seed pods but they continue to grow by the shoots that come from huge underground roots. DO NOT PLANT IT, DO NOT BUY A HOUSE THAT HAS IT!!!!!!😱
I live in western Missouri and we inherited a huge Tree of Paradise when we bought our cottage (along with those other vines, except the wisteria) in our yard. That is one tree I would say never plant for it also sends up suckers everywhere and if you don't cut them down with the grass, you will have a jungle in no time flat. They also stink when you cut the baby trees down. Fortunately, the original tree has been cut down (it was hollow and in danger of falling over), but we still battle the sucker babies that sprout everywhere from the roots. My husband has even tried spraying brush killer to no avail -- it took care of the Virginia Creeper and the Trumpet Vine, but we still have the Tree of Paradise suckers, vinca and ivy growing everywhere. A friend told me that I would have to bulldoze my yard to get rid of every piece of root from the tree.
Honeysuckle is on my list! It was constantly taking down my pasture fencing!!
That is funny I agree with the bamboo and wisteria, but I lived in NJ and had Virginia creeper and wanted it to climb my deck but it kept dying, I also wanted trumpet vines and they would not grow either. There are many invasives like Japanese honeysuckle that are listed ast invasive but for some of us are just not.. Lovely garden thanks.
Is it weird how one plant is such a problem in one area, and in another area it is coveted? LOL
I have 8 acres and Honeysuckle and Virginia creeper have taken over our woods.
I’ve been able to get rid of autumn olive but those two I cannot keep up with!
I think even if I removed it 100% from our property the seeds from neighbors plants, via birds, may never stop.
Planting only natives has worked well for us, but we sadly inherited such things as Virginia Creeper, Rose of Sharon, Silver Maple, Burning Bush, vinca, and some type of reed-y grass.
What’s wrong with Rose of Sharon?
@@spormlastname267 Nothing, except they are prolific seeders. Mowing them helps. Virginia Creeper is a great plant, too.
Linda that was a very sweet and informative presentation and I just removed a bunch of ENGLISH IVEY that I will never ever plant again.... The professional had to bring in a small piece of equipment to scrape the whole area clean!. THANKS FOR THE ADDITIONAL TIPS BECAUSE THAT AREA IS GOING TO HAVE TO BE REPLANTED SOON... GA USA 👍🙋🌹
Such a very helpful and informative presentation video! Thank you, Linda!