The 16 invasive species mentioned in this video are: Chinese Wisteria, Bamboo, Winter Creeper, English Ivy, Japanese Honeysuckle, Winged Bruning Bush, Nandina / Sacred Bamboo (toxic berries too), Chinese Privet, Autumn Olive, Bardford Pear Tree, Common Perrywinkle / Vinca, Japanese Barberry, Princess Tree / Royal Paulownia, Sweet Autumn Clamatis, Weeping Lovegrass and Japanese Meadowsweet.
And add spiderwort, plantain hostas and a sedum called steppables-Ugh! They are impossible to eradicate. I have the sweet autumn clematis and it died back so it isn’t a problem after 3 years.
@@dustyflats3832 Spiderwort is native to North America. Just because a plant is aggressive and hard to control in gardens doesn't mean it's invasive. It has to be nonnative to be invasive; otherwise it's just aggressive. All environments need some fast-growing aggressive species to be able to recover from disruptions and handle heavy herbivory. Hostas are not native to the US, but they're not considered invasive in most of the country because they don't take over habitats and the native wildlife (especially deer) easily keep them in check. They're an introduced species, not an invasive species. Oddly enough, spiderwort is one of the plant suggested to replace hostas if you want native shade plants. Sedum is a genus with 400-500 plants, some of which are native to the US. Steppables is a brand that sells plants for use in grass-free lawns. They sell a variety of sedums, so it's impossible to tell which species you're referring to.
So, I'm watching this a year later and this is a lesson I JUST learned as a new gardener!! Just because you CAN grow it, doesnt mean you SHOULD! LOL! Because my land is in West Texas,of course I'm looking for plants and trees that are hardy and drought tolerant. Of course i wen on Ebay and Amazon and put all kinds of stuff on my lists. Now I'm realizing i have a delicate ecosystem and i need to be careful what i introduce. I'm learning a lot by going to the Ag sites and getting information about what is safe to plant and what I shouldn't introduce. I think that's a good hunt for people. Their local Ag office extension will have exactly what they need to have a great beneficial yard. We live and learn......sometimes too late......ie. carp....who knew??? Lol! Great video, I didnt mind the format at all. Thank you.
Why don't you plant fruit trees they are none invasive, Every Spring you will have lovely blossom, and in the Autumn you will have loads of fruit to pick, and if you don't want to pick the fruit, the birds will enjoy them, and the bees will enjoy the blooms in the spring. I am sure there must be some fruit trees that would suit Texas. Hope this helps you. Greetings from Northern Ireland.
@@winifredthompson2470 thank you, I am going to plant some and also grow in massive containers. The land out there is full of clay and very dry but it it possible. Currently I am still in New Yoek City so all I can do is plan and garden in my apartment. I am planning to start buying my trees here and nurture them in the apartment as seedling.
@@angelalibi1 Dear Natacha, I would wait till you move to your new Farm, dig a good big hole at least 2 times the size of the root of the tree you are planting, put,plenty of peat and good honest cow manueur into it, not fertiliser. Fill the hole with water and put your young tree into the hole and put the clay soil around it, you can improve your soil if you can get somebody to leave you a load of chicken peat manueur, don't worry about feathers in it, that will all break down to soil improvers. You will probably be able to get a load of this stuff for nothing, and if you dig it into your clay soil it really improves it. You know that when you,put in young trees you will need to keep them well watered for a little while till they get established. Ask in Texas, what is the best breed of tree for that type of environment, you might be told orange grove, lemon grove etc, This is my advice to you. I wish you all the best. Winifred, Thompson, Lisburn, Co.Antrim, Northern Ireland.
@@winifredthompson2470 thank you! I have since learned about building up my soil and about bone meal, feather meal, chicken manure (a magical substance 🤣) and Rabbit manure. I have been using fish emulsion on my garden and started my own compost. I am loving the process! Thank you for you help! I have written it down!💚💚💚
When I was first married, we bought a house. I planted some wisteria. My new neighbor was a lovely older man. He came to my front door with a lilac bush. He offered to plant it for me if I would let him rip out my kudzu.
@@kaloarepo288 Not like wisteria. Lilac is easy to trim back. Wisteria pops up EVERYWHERE! I find wisteria sending out 50 foot vines and I live way up north. It has to be total kudzu down south.
Georgia here. If it's invasive, it's grown here. One of our worst is Sweet Gum tree. It grows both by seed and the roots sent out shoots. My back pasture is inundated. I'm also fighting Vinca Major and lemon mint that the previous owner put into a spot ALONG WITH English Ivy. It's a mess. I work at a nursery, and I try to gently let customers know when they're purchasing something that is going to take over. They're very grateful.
Where do you live that sweet gum is invasive? Out of all the native east coast US trees I wouldn't have guessed that would've become a problem overseas. I'd expect it to be tulip poplar or Boxelder lol
Invasives have more impact than just one homeowners yard. Some viewers don't seem to understand that these plants have seeds or berries that birds and wildlife drop in other areas. The plants become monocultures in natural areas. Invasives are a predominant reason that so many species appear on the endangered species list. Another example of human-caused habitat destruction.
I don't really care! I love my invasive plants! If they spread to the whole world blame nature for making them so adaptable 🤣🤣🤣 well soon or later they will dominate all the places anyways but i really think probably a new plague would appear to control their "excess" in an eventual scenario like this because that's how mother nature seems to work... Human's activities and destruction of forests for example are way more concerning not to the word (Earth will continue existing), but for ourselves and many other creatures!
This video should be called "16 plant species growing in my yard that the previous home owner planted because she owned her own nursery. " Or just "My Daily Nightmare."
I've got rid of many of them after previous owner, but I can only keep an ivy in reasonable size. Have I missed here Buddleya? I don't have it, but my neighbours have, so it is fight with its seedling each year.
MightySapphire. Your comment is both funny and sad. I fight my neighbors bamboo and the natural honeysuckle. On the bright side, all that exercise is good for me.
When we moved into our house in Maryland there was a pretty stand of bamboo planted by the previous owners. Over the next 5-6 years it totally took over our yard so we had no space and no other plants. We made a neighbor very angry with us when we refused to give him shoots - - he lived on the edge of our big woodsy park (Rock Creek Park)and we didn’t want the bamboo invading that beautiful park. We had to get a contractor in with a backhoe to dig it out of our yard which was enormously expensive. We kept getting shoots for years. When I see bamboo in someone’s yard I shudder.
Be aware, there are two basic types of bamboo, those that spread via their roots, and those that do not. So you don’t need to always shudder. 8 ). I have a non spreading variety that I have been coddling for five years, it is just a tiny bit bigger than when I got it.
In in Seattle and my neighbors down the street just cut all of their bamboo that was going crazy. Thankfully got myself a stick to go (gonna dry it for decor!)
Elizabeth as a gardener I prize bamboo for support poles, it lasts for years, is very tough, I go “trim” my son’s bamboo every year and keep a bunch of the best poles for that purpose. He keeps threatening to take it out, but he is not that ambitious. His is a very old stand, but very stable , has not increased in the five years he has been in the house. Good for you getting some for decor. It is a cool plant, though no doubt can get out of control. If you want to have a panic attack, look up a video, put in the search something like worker building bamboo scaffolding. It is widely used in Asia for that purpose.
@@lilolmecj Oh thank goodness! Someone who knows what they're doing with bamboo. If you only barley research a plant and call it bad or invasive when there are hundreds of species, you do the entire bamboo family an injustice. When you plant bamboo that can throw runners you must place 3'-4' barriers inset into the ground to ensure it's growth is CONTROLLED. Consult PROFESSIONAL arborists (like my fiancee) to learn or Morakami Gardens in Delray Beach, Florida. To say ALL bamboo is invasive is just plain wrong. To identify your plant and then understand its habits is being a responsible grower in your garden.
I learned so much about this problem from Doug Tallamy videos and books 4 years ago when I got into outdoor gardening. I'm still pulling up ivy and periwinkle each year but I've planted so many native species of trees, shrubs and perennials. I've seen such a big difference in the amount of birds, butterflies and bees on my property now. Thank you for bringing attention to this ongoing problem🇨🇦✌️ choose natives whenever possible and ask the garden centres about alternatives to these invasives
That is funny. I can testify to the truth about the English Ivy. I planted 4 small containers years ago on the North side of the house. I must trim it at least once a year and remove it from my Japanese Maple tree or it will damage the house and my favorite tree. I think it attracts or harbors mosquitoes.😬
I think we need a more advanced way of looking at this. Any imported species that directly kills local plants or animals is a destructive invasive species. Like vines that kill trees by shading out all the light - yes - they are very bad & we should shop importing them & try to get rid of them as much as possible. And knapweed is toxic to both cattle & other plants - gotta do everything possible to control & reduce its population!!! However, when it come to bushes & trees that are only competing for space on the ground space by growing - plants naturally compete
@@HBO1984. maybe I will have to move to Texas. Now I have a bunny fighting with the gopher to see who can cause the most damage in my garden😡 what insects do you have a problem with in Houston?
Don't dig. Sheet mulch with cardboard & a thick lair of well broken down woodchips. You may be able to get it free from local landscaping companies. It's much more affective at smothering weeds and prior invasives then trying to dig everything up, is alot less work, & will improve your soil for growing.
@@tinkerbelle6936 Yup, and some weed seeds can stay in the soil for as long as 50 years. When you till, you're kicking all those seeds back up to germinate. That's the roll most of those first and secondary succession plants ,people consider weeds, play within ecology. They're first responders to major enviromental change, erosion & compaction. Such as bracken ferns after a forest fire.
Mowing will keep most of them under control, at least in the confines of your yard, if the location is suitable for mowing. Cut down the plant, keep the area mowed. A few of these have widely scattered seeds, which is a bigger problem since you can't mow the entire environment. Also, if you're mowing something like bamboo--it will keep sending up shoots in the lawn for quite some time, but if it doesn't have any unmowed areas to support the growth it will eventually die.
I've killed leaves on my houseplant when dish soap and vinegar touched them. I've thought about spreading dish soap or bleach on some weeds but I have not tried it yet.
I actually get kind of angry at the whole landscape design industry for bringing in all these invasive plants and planting them everywhere. A professional landscape architect planted wisteria in the yard where I live, even though we're on the edge of a woodland. I've spent years killing it, and new sprouts keep coming up.
I don't know what type of wisteria I planted many years ago, but I do know that after digging down about 5 feet to root it out it has reappeared years later in the middle of my rose bush. The more you chop them back the more vigorous they grow. They refuse to die!
My grandparents planted the bamboo, and it took over the yard! We found where the roots were running under the foundation of the house. It grew from the woodline across the backyard, into the side yard and the front yard too. Some of the roots running horizontally across the yards were a couple of inches across. When I sold that property, it was to friends, who already knew what was there.
I work at a large nursery and discourage people from buying/growing wisteria unless they plan to train it into a tree. I provide full disclosure that wisteria is very invasive and can break-up concrete. Additionally, I ALWAYS strongly recommend against planting English Ivy and bamboo to my customers. With regards to the latter, I tell them that the rhizomes can pop up in their neighbors' yards and several blocks away to others. When that doesn't seem to phase them, I let them know that the bamboo can invade their underground piping/plumbing systems and has the potential to cause thousands upon thousands of dollars in damages to their homes. That makes them walk away REAL fast from the bamboo, and with good reason.
@@friend-of-furbies Yes. The containers are generally placed underground and made of heavy-gauge metal, as the bamboo is so invasive, it can even break through metal. One can also use above-ground containers, but that will limit the size of the bamboo, generally by 50 to 75% smaller than in the ground. However, there are over 1,400 varieties of bamboo, so you can always find a few that might meet your criteria for growing well in containers as well as your hardiness zone. Note that you will have to water it more frequently, if the bamboo is planted in a container, which is a finite amount of space and will more quickly dehydrate.
You are just a loving person. You can love a plant to death. Most likely soggy roots. Watering touch will drown them. I have the same issue. 😊 we could make a living loving people's invasive plants to death. Lol
The plant that is the bane of my existence is big leaf maple. It's a native tree, but every year I'm pulling up seedlings. The mess of leaves in the fall, and the helicopters in the spring. It was a happy day when the neighbor cut down the massive clump (which was starting to rot, and dropped most of it's mess on my property) between our properties.
Great topic-Please think twice! Also please add Trumpet vine to the top of this list. As a novice, I bought one from a nursery for growing on a trellis under my kitchen window in MA. Once established, it rapidly grew and didn’t like being confined to the trellis. It damaged any cedar shingle it grew over (and under) and began to corroded my foundation 😳 so I dug it up and tossed it in my compost pile (because when I have a problem, I prefer to double it). The next year I learned that it can sprout up from any tiny bit of root missed so I was hacking up my garden beds and lawn for years trying to get it all. At year 5, I realized it had also grown out the back of my compost, under the grass and began to choke my beautiful magnolia, beloved peonies and several other flowers and evergreens. I’m an organic gardener but in one of my darkest moments I tried micro amounts of carefully applied herbicide. Apparently this angered the plant Gods because it ate it up like fertilizer and came back stronger than ever. I built alters, vowed to nurture every green thing, volunteered to assist any gardener and toiled ceaselessly to pay down my karmic debt but still my prayers of mercy went unanswered. Finally, after 15 years of blood, sweat and tears, I had to sell my house. If it pops up in my new yard, I’m contacting Stephen King.
Trumpet vine is technically a native species in America. But yeah it's extremely destructive to structures and property. I have one on my wooden fence the neighbor planted years ago and has completely engulfed and ruined the fence but at least gives us privacy :)
It would be great if you could suggest plants that are "like" those invasive ones such as burning bush can be replaced by native blue berry shrubs, ect.
Didn't know they were invasive, the only reason I didn't get one is because my friend told me that one had actually caught on fire hence the burning bush, because it emits some kind of gas so I said I think I should leave that one alone.
Japanese knotweed is banned here in the UK. It's roots have been known to go through concrete, and destroying building structures. A nightmare to get rid of, and very expensive.
@@coffeebeann1 Not if you were living beside someone that had it growing in their back garden, and you couldn't sell your house because of it and it is very expensive to get rid of it. It is illegal to plant here in Northern Ireland, Greeting from Northern Ireland.
Berk Sarioz at least figs are susceptible to triclopyr I had a nonfruiting type in my tea tree. killed the bottom half with poison, but left the top half stuck in the branches of the other tree It just put roots into the other tree and I’ve had to cut it again twice now.
We have it all around my work. It will grow out of the smallest crack in asphalt or concrete. A small piece of root from 1 is all you need to spread it unknowingly. Crazy invasive plant.
English Ivy will also eventually suck the moisture out of brick work if grown up the side of a building. We had to get all the bricks repointed after the ivy was cut down. Looks nice, very 'olde worlde' but a bit of a nightmare for your property.
Oh my gosh, when we bought our house the previous owner, had English ivy, growing on the brick fireplace, I cut it off at the bottom and let it die, by the next spring I was taking it to the green clean getting rid of it for good.
Heder Helix is nativ to loads of European countries. It’s one of the few native evergreens. Over here it’s a very good plant for birds and Insects but iron no one uses it anymore … It provides great nesting opportunities , pollen and berries extremely late in the year. It doesn’t need to climb up a house and can grow into great hedges also, but people plant utterly useless , non native thuja and cherry laurel hedges instead .. We’re struggling with a load of US „imports“ that are invasive over here and many of the same invasive Neophytes from Asia….
I remove English Ivy from Seattle parks every single week. It grows fast and kills our urban forests. There's huge volunteer events to remove it, but we can never get it all.
Do you leave Ivy that grows on fences? Ivy that is over 10 years old blooms in autumn and lots of insects feed from it. At least that is how it is in.northern Germany. I do remove it from trees and garden beds. Yesterday I was tempted to remove a lot from a wild area in my garden, but there is a chance that hedgehogs are overwintering there. I know we have some toads overwintering on our property as well and I don't want to disturb the animals. I'll wait till March.
I almost bought English Ivy today to grow around my mailbox but then something in me made me think “this might be a bad idea...” I’m glad I thought that, my neighbors are always ripping Ivy off of the side of their house.
You are correct to choose another plant. We have English IVY that was here long before we came. If I don't regularly cut it way back, it grows literally like a weed and is impossible to remove. It harbors rats. Hard pass. Find a nice native plant, one that will support the other wildlife in your area.
My neighbor planted bamboo a few years ago at our fence line and i can confirm that it grows very fast and the roots spread is a problem. We had a stalk come up through the floor of our shed. It is so strong that I have to use an axe to even choose it down. I also have honeysuckle on the opposite side of the yard. It grows naturally here and is almost impossible to keep up with. I spend one summer a few years ago pulling and burning it from inside me fence. That worked pretty well, but I still have to pull out the stray regrow periodically.
Here in the uk there are so many buildings and walls destroyed by ivy, the roots easily burrow through wood and mortar and as the stem expands and turns to a thick trunk it separates the bricks and destroys the structure. My mum decided to plant ivy along a fence and a trelace on the house and within a few years we had to replace the door frame and remove the fence completely because it caused so much damage, I'm still cutting bits down 20 years later because it just doesn't die.
Bamboo is no joke. My neighbor planted it along the fence line for privacy. He got his privacy and I got the rhizomes 25 feet in front of my shed. I dig those rhizomes out about 2 x week. He got the rhizomes into his septic tank.
I watched this in the nick of time. I just planted (in trays thank goodness) these same wisteria seeds that someone gave my husband. I think I’ll grow something different. 😃
This may sound strange but strawberries can be very invasive once they start putting out suckers, the roots are so tough and go so deep that if you allow it to it will take over your whole growing space/medium, even the stems that connect the suckers are hard to break.
Technically, your strawberries are aggressive. A plant can be aggressive without being invasive. Invasive actually is detrimental to the environment. A lot of people confuse the two terms.
Are you sure they are strawberries & not mock strawberries? Mock strawberries grow all over my yard. It is a vine that puts out what look like little strawberries, but they are tasteless. Mock strawberry has yellow flowers. Real strawberry has white flowers.
Great idea! Of course, the thing is also, what is invasive in zone 6 isn't in zone 4, 5. Couldn't grow a decent wisteria here if you tried really hard. Englemann Ivy, honeysuckle (japonica), mint spp....yikes! Russian olive, and purple loosestrife used to be sold in Nurseries here. No longer. No one buys (merchants), the growers don't propagate...It's all education.
@@ellenmcintyre1247 Also keep in mind how the the season where you live are changing. As an example, where I live (Atlantic City, NJ) spring and fall are about 5 minutes long nowadays. Not so when I was growing up.
My husband bought wisteria to plant on our newly built pergola. It took three (3) years to destroy Mayflower beds...my neighbors. Garden and even under ...through our pond. And up in my other neighbors yard..we spent a fortune...and countless hours trying to fight it.I finally had to destroy my soil tear it out and start from scratch. Good luck and God Bless
My Grandmother had a princess tree on her property. Such a pretty tree with beautiful flowers and giant leaves, but I wasn't surprised to see it on this list haha! Every year we would have to pull up what seemed like a never ending supply of new trees. It definitely proved that it can grow anywhere, even in the rock hard Georgia red clay that barely grows anything.
It's was a plant that was planted along freeways in WA state. Until people started to complain about it causing horrible hay fever. It cost thousands to remove.
Home Depot is great for selling plants not best in your particular zone....lol. they will sell anything you will buy whether it will grow in your region or not🤬
They do that with succulents too! Saying you can grow them anywhere, especially your window sill, but many windows don’t get enough sunshine all day long to prevent your succulents from becoming stretched out.
@@Emiliapocalypse . I've seen spray painted succulents in pots that have no drainage holes. They had them under a watering system filled to the top with water. And then other succulents on shelves not getting enough light all stretched out. Somebody knocked over a one gallon aloe vera and it only had 2 inches of roots.
I have wild roses growing in my yard and will find little ones growing all over my yard, they reseed them self like crazy. Keep them under control and you can have a great looking wall of pink flowers from spring to fall.
We in Australia have a Biosecurity department which governs this sort of stuff, sometimes nationally, and some just state to state, as we have a wide range of growing conditions. What may end up being invasive in some states is a treasured garden item in others. We have a lot of plants we simply can not get for these reasons. Nurseries are not permitted to sell the plants on relevant lists for their areas.
I had that autumn clematis and loved it. I will say I had to cut it back at least 3 times during the growing season, and back almost to the ground in late fall. But it was glorious and fragrant in bloom and covered an ugly post holding up the porch. For me the extra work was worth it.
I built a raised bed and grow bamboo in it and it is beautiful. I keep an eye on it so it doesn’t spread. When the wind blows it makes this beautiful sound.
do you use it for crafts? might help keep its population in check. Bamboo is really strong and you could easily make your own garden stakes for tomatoes, beans, ect with them. It used to be believed that paleolithic humans didn't go into asia during the stone age. But one theory is that the bamboo was so good for spears they just stopped making flint spearheads and arrowheads and made their weapons from bamboo, which biodegrades, leaving no evidence. :D its a lovely and very useful plant, but it has to be looked after!
AnimeShinigami13 yes, I plan to use it for trellis stakes for my plants. One of the types of bamboo I grow is black bamboo so it will make beautiful trellis stakes. I read somewhere that bamboo is very good for the environment because it absorbs greenhouse gases and releases more oxygen than trees.
Crouton I have both types of bamboo. Clumping also spreads. I have 1 clumping bamboo that is getting close to the neighbors yard that I will need to move and divide.
I was thinking about growing bamboo for homestead projects but now I know that I need to do a lot of research first and see if it can be kept under control. I already have a few of the vines in this video that previous owners let loose.
There is native spireas, too, that look just like the Japanese Spirea. Subalpine Spirea, or Alpine Spirea, is native to the Pacific Northwest, looks just like Japanese Spirea, and is also found in garden centers. The other spirea is Douglas's Spirea, or Hardhack. Looks quite different, and can be aggressive. Loves wet soil, and is also native to wetlands in the PNW.
That's a problem in general with this video. It's important to call out variety so that folks understand that not every member of the species us invasive.
Sadly, most of these invasive plants have a well behaved native species that would be a very good alternative. Why import plants instead of identifying the natives & allowing THEM to flourish? Most folks spend more time picking out a fridge than their plants, unleashing havoc on not only their yard but neighboring yards as well. Nurseries are bad about selling whatever will sell, the Hell with the environment, NOT a gr8 business model. Many sources are availible to identify natives, use them! One you missed is Kudzu, scourge of the South.
In the UK I planted a Lonicera Henryi in a far off part of our garden (we have a large garden) and forgot about it. 7 years later when we'd retired and got back into gardening I was appalled to find a 20' high, 40' long thicket that had throttled several mature trees and shrubs. Think of Sleeping Beauty and the mass of thorns that the Prince had to get through to release her and that was what faced us (but no thorns thank heavens) It took 3 days to cut it all down and untwist it from branches of the few trees that were just vabout hanging on. And 3 years later we're still doing extermination watches to deal with the suckers. Never felt the same about honeysuckle even though the perfume is delightful.
We have lantana in Australia that's invasive in some areas and not in other areas. It's good to get to know what's invasive where you are before planting things. Great video
If you like and wish for an invasive species in your garden? PLEASE DONT BE A SELFISH NEIGHBOUR..... have the plant but PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE plant them in POTS so that they don’t take over and invade your innocent 😇 neighbours beautiful garden! THANK YOU 🙏. That is all... ❤️🦋🙏
I mean, as someone who lives in the middle of no where with no neighbor for achres, I think it will be okay in the ground. Not everyone can high five their neighbor from their window hahaha
I have a burning passion for invasive plants and love making stories out of them. However I don’t wanna plant any anywhere near my garden anytime soon.
This is also why there are restrictions on bringing plants in from foreign countries, but people still try to sneak things in, because they remind them of "home". Please do not do that. Even if you control your plant and keep it as a houseplant, you may give cuttings to others who won't be so careful. There are strong reasons for the restrictions. This is an exceptionally important topic, and many thanks to the person who posted it. Please continue! You did leave out Scotch Broom though. Yes, it's beautiful, and stunningly bright yellow in spring. But it's horribly invasive and spreads like wildfire. It has taken over vast areas of northern California wildlands, but some nurseries still offer it, because people think "that's so pretty! I want one in my garden!". So one plant becomes many. Nurseries should be sources of horticultural education, and what they sell should be attentive to the local environment and native species. Please keep up this important conversation! 👍
Not sure if you can buy these at nurseries, but: japanese knotweed It covered almost half our garden when we bought the house and has taken us YEARS to get rid of. That's with spraying, digging, weeding.. You name it, we've tried it. 4 years later and we still have it popping up every now and then. You can even pour concrete over this and it'll just grow right through! 😱
So true. Living in SW Fl and having had a landscaping company for 20+ years here, I've seen and dealt with too many invasive species. And homeowners who are down for the winters don't care. They want it like "up north."
My Sister lives in FL. Her neighbor had a nursery business, Every kind of plant is growing crazy all over the 3 acres! Big time jungle!!! Then her neighbor 3 houses down is raising those black and white iguanas! They get loose in "the jungle", Wonder if some of these invasive plants are poisonous for gopher tourtise?
I remember I once bought this really pretty looking packet of seeds and was growing it. It was growing really well. Decided to look it up and all I could find was websites saying "Invasive, do not grow," I was in a pickle and decided to actually try to kill it on purpose instead of allowing it to go wild. Learned a lesson that day to always look up a plant before planting it. I have seen what can happen when invasive plants come to your area and I do not want to be the one to introduce another one. Lilly of the valley is really pretty, I have found memories of it as a child and I want to plant it, but I heard that it was an invasive plant so that is another one I will have to skip.
I used to live in an apartment with a small yard and concrete slab. I remember painters hacked down all of the bamboo to paint the building and everyday during my lunch break I measured those bamboo plants and yes they do grow up to a foot a day! The bamboo also spread out underneath the concrete slab to the other side of my tiny yard. You should also do a post of grass and how majority of them also come from China and are technically weeds, like St. Augustine Grass which is very popular here in North Texas. I hate that grass and how the runners can invade a flower bed and are almost impossible to keep out. I think it was some painting of a meadow area in Europe that made the grass lawn so popular. Why else would anyone grow something that you have to water like crazy just to cut down to look pretty? ASININE!
Agree. I see people putting so much effort like they doing serious farming only to out grass seeds. You could grow so much healthy organic food with all those fertilizer, mowing and hardwork
I wish my HOA would allow us to replace the lawn with a native ground cover. In the backyard where they can't see, I'm courting several "weeds" that are gorgeous, and don't require any special attention.
@@cariwaldick4898 the HOA is why democracy isn’t a good thing for everyone. Majority rules is usually bereft of the big picture as it pertains to the laws of nature. Most grass is a weed, usually from China. St Augustine is a prime example.
@@KharisReimagines I could deal with it if it was really a democracy. It's not. They come with rules and restrictions we NEVER got to vote on. It would be great if the city would back up the homeowner against harmful restrictions--but they don't. It's one of my hot-buttons, so I'll quit now.
I’m in year 2 of trying to eradicate 2 60+ year old clumps of oriental knot weed.... An incredibly invasive plant with an incredible root system. I’m mostly digging out the rhizomes wherever shoots pop up, but using glyphosate where I have to. The underground reservoir of stored energy is incredible, and the plant is amazingly resilient. This may take years!
There's an easy way to control bamboo, which is to eat the shoots. Harvest them before they're 12 in / 30 cm tall. Peel off the tough layers, and make sure you boil them for 15-20 minutes to denature the alkaloids (similar to those found in potatoes). They're used in all kinds of Asian cuisine. We have bamboo growing in a contained bed where it can't escape, and when I tried to propagate it elsewhere to serve as a barrier tree, it turned out to be a lot harder to cultivate than I thought. Also, bamboo poles make excellent garden stakes and trellises, and you can place potted vine plants like cucumbers next to live bamboo to let them crawl up. If you're considering growing bamboo, you do have to keep on top of it every year, and avoid planting it where it can spread to your neighbor's yard, but it's not that hard.
I am currently fighting Virginia Creeper. I have no idea how it got in my yard. Stupid me thought it looked so ornamental when it grew out of a window well & up the side of the house to the roof. I knew I had a problem when it entered the lawn. I had it all torn out, but now it has appeared on the other side of the yard! My backyard neighbor so "thoughtfully" planted an aspen tree. I am always cutting down those suckers.
Yellow Woodsorrel (oxalis stricta) you know the plant with clover like leaves and has tiny yellow flowers. It is native to some parts of the US but can take over even indoors.
These types of videos are definitely what I look for. There are so many toxic plants growing here in New York State that came from far away. Now we’re struggling to get rid of them because they are so dangerous to humans and animals. Thanks so much for sharing.
1. Chinese Wisteria 2. Fishpole Bamboo 3. Winter Creeper 4. English Ivy 5. Japanese Honeysuckle Vine 6. Winged Burning Bush 7. Nandina (Sacred Bamboo) 8. Chinese Privet 9. Autumn Olive 10. Bradford Pear Tree 11. Vinca Minor 12. Japanese Barberry 13. Princess Tree 14. Sweet Autumn Clematis 15. Weeping Love Grass 16. Japanese Spirea
I bought a home and had issues with the Trumpet flower vine. Beautiful flowers, but when tried to clear out an area, it kept coming back. Tried ripping out roots, but if you even leave a little piece, it comes back
I had a neighbor who planted it on the chain link fence between our houses. He would yell at me for cutting it on my side. It grew over 4 feet a week during the growing season. I know someone else that it took over their yard and the dry riverbed they had. They have been working on removing it from their yard for years. Finally they have the upper hand. I have seen it kill trees.
@@cathyvincent3510 Yes ma'am, I had neighbor who moved in next door who wanted to continue to grow them in between us and I just told her that I had made a mistake and ' here enjoy theses sugar peas and Japanese winged beans, instead'. lol
Oh shit. I’m in Scotland and I’ve just planted a bunch of morning glory seeds along my fence. I want it to grow biggg to keep the nosey, unsanitary neighbours from peering over. Kinda regretting it now lol
Depends on where you live and what kind of morning glory. The annual one sold in seeds is not invasive where I live but the perennial one sold as a plant is a house eater!
You should definitely make a video on "plants that should always be grown in pots" or "plants that are not for the careless gardener" 😂 I have seen creeping figs gone berserk, and snake plants, rodeos, syngoniums, Gardenias... becoming a nuisance. While they can be easily controlled and maintained wonderfully, once established it's really irritating to dig out roots to eradicate them.
Imagine the amount of money it would take to keep something that big properly fed. And also adult pandas are notorious for being opportunistic and violently territorial
I remember buying some blue star creeper, and the day I set it in the ground, I took it right back out. I watched a TH-cam video and there was a guy talking about how he couldn't get rid of it. Glad I looked that plant up...
I learned the hard way. Autumn clematis is a beautiful plant covered in tiny white flowers. I built an arbor over the front steps at the end of the walk to my house and planted it. It is also a prolific self seeder. I spend hours pulling it out of trees and shrubs and mowing it down in the middle of the yard including the back yard and along the side of the house. I cut down the arbor and I'm still yanking autumn clematis up all over the place. I've thrown miles of autumn clematis vines into the firepit to get rid of them. I had similar experiences with a flower known as obedient plant and lemon balm. I thought I'd never get rid of them. None of them came with a warning that they are invasive.
@@joshward7009 Lemon balm is native to Europe and the middle east. Both the obedient plant and lemon balm took over huge sections of my yard and crowded out other plants before I got rid of them.
Thank you for this video! Love to see more awareness being raised about invasive plant species. Take it from me, someone whose literal job is "Invasive Plant Removal Technician" going out to Wildlife Management sites where invasive plant species have jumped from people's yards and have invaded into natural habitats. Its a fun job but it'd be a lot easier if people stopped planting these invasives in their yards where we can't treat or remove without permission. Keep up the good work!
I wish I could grow lush plants here but winters are so long and cold it won't happen. Zone 5a fierce winds and down to -40 not even counting in the wind chill. Maybe you mean in zone 7. The best plants are the natives here. It is very verdant and fertile with towering hardwoods and various evergreens Eagles soar overhead. I'm inside a forest!
They are selling some kind of elephant ear invasive in nurseries here. I did not see them on my property when I bought it in the winter, but they started growing when it got warmer. They grow FAST and HUGE. They were clumped up in one area with bamboo where the former owners were probably trying to soak up water from the yard, but then I started finding them sprouting up in different parts of the yard and near the house. Most of them were really easy to pull up, but the large ones were stuck in the ground pretty good. It's been about a month a most, and there are a few areas where they have grown back up considerably. I plan on continuing to remove the plants until they stop growing back in. At least it's manageable now! If you let these things grow out of control they will kill everything else due to covering everything else around it from the sun. A much better solution to the water in my yard will be to follow a guide to tilling, laying mulch, laying soil, and making sure everything is graded properly and laying grass seed plus planting some native trees that do well in wet areas. It takes much longer, more effort, and more money, but killing everything with invasive species is MUCH worse in the long run! Don't plant stuff like this to avoid putting in the work. It really didn't work anyway 😕. It probably helped suck up water from one puddled area (there are a few others and it seems like they tried to plug the largest one up with water loving plants), but it did nothing to the rest of the yard. Glad the lesson was learned before anything hugely damaging occured!
Ligustrum is also a VERY intense allergen for some people when it's blooming. There was some in the yard of a house we bought, my father and I couldn't go out the back door when it was in bloom. We were both glad when Mama got it killed.
You should say what climate each of these invasive plants grow in as I have a few of these in my garden and round my property and haven't had any problems with them
@@mssixty3426 wisteria, barberry, winged burningbush and english ivy. I'm in N Scotland so very mild throughout the year. It's taken around 20 years for some of the ivy to climb 20foot up a tree and along a ridge line
There are two major types of bamboo. One is clumping and fairly well behaved. The other is spreading and a real menace. Bamboo can be quite useful as long as you get the right type.:)
I live in East Texas and grow the wisteria for the hummingbirds and bees that help to pollinate my angel trumpets but I prune it every year to keep it under control. The Nandina( sacred bamboo) is very hard to get rid of we discovered that the berries were linked to hundreds of Cedar Wax Wing birds dying so we ended up digging every bush that was on the property up but also had to burn the root ball because it kept trying to grow back. I plant dozens of different plants such as the honeysuckle that I also prune every year for the bees,birds and hundreds of butterflies that visit every Spring, my 1 lantana bush is so large it stops traffic so folks can watch the display of several species of butterflies and large quantities at 1 time, it really is a sight to see. Just wanted to share that fact of the Cedar Wax Wings they visit us every year now by the hundreds I get hours of enjoyment watching them in the birdbath and just chilling at a safe place then they are gone as quick as they showed up until the next year.
Most definitely a useful video. Here in Brisbane Queensland I just spent several days physically removing the Singapore Daisy weed. Invaded from three properties away and it took over and I’d been trying for years to keep it under control to no avail. With the help of my son Nigel of Prehistoric Tank channel. Thanks for the video.
I was hoping you would mention Vinca. Several years ago I planted a vinca in a pot with flowers. It grew down from the pot and rooted in the ground next to the porch. Now it is EVERYWHERE in my front beds and it is impossible to get rid of, especially since I don't want to use chemicals. The flowers are nice though, lol.
I planted English Ivy as a ground cover several years ago. Like this video details it also likes to climb. It looked pretty nice climbing the trees but last year I noticed a few of the trees were dropping leafs in the middle of the summer. The Ivy was literally sucking the life out of my trees. It cost me $8000 to strip the Ivy and Asian honeysuckle out of my yard. Buyers beware.
I had that Love Grass in my yard. I put it in 4 years ago. I tried to remove it in the second year as much as I could because it was growing in places I did not plant it. To this day, it still grows in my backyard. To this day I can find myself pulling it out of the ground by its roots.
My sister bought a house with a mature wisteria. Just when she thought she fially had it killed she found it had started growing under the siding on her house. Two stories up, under the eave, was the first bit of purple flowering coming back. It had a tree-size stump and it grew back from a root and ran under that siding
Donnie Freymoyer As I saw at a college campus. Mature enormous tree-size one, with its arms up in a pergola - 100 ft away from all bldgs and in the middle of a paved plaza
@fern river Thank you for bringing up the scotch broom. No matter how hard we try to eradicate it people are still planting it. It is destroying swaths of forest. I think it should be a crime to have it in people’s property. I think the seeds last 40+ years on the ground.
It's was also a plant that was planted along freeways in WA state. Until people started to complain about it causing horrible hay fever. It cost thousands to remove.
How about some state laws that create a list of native plant species and when you plant them on your property you can write them off on your taxes. It would create a better ecosystem and would create growth in the nursery and landscaping businesses.
Oh my goodness I love this idea! I’m in Canada (east coast) but we have some of the same problems with plants on that list. An incentive is always a good idea to encourage people. Do you mind if I copy and post your idea on Facebook?
In Arizona, you get a one time rebate from Salt River Project ( the local power and water company) if you plant heat and drought tolerant plants in 75% of your yard and have a conserving drip system. It's not exactly the same, but encourages mindful growing. Most of these invasives are also water hogs, so if someone can get them to live inn the desert, that person is also using an extraordinary amount of water.
In my area (Pacific North West), you can add Broom, Blackberry, Japanese Knot Weed, and Morning Glory. The last item we'll never be able to get rid of on our island...I call it strangle weed because it just strangles everything (including Blackberry, lol). At least the Blackberries taste amazing, but wow are they hard to control.
Good list! We bought a house a couple of years ago and it turns out about half of this list is currently planted in our yard. Wonderful! I've got english ivy growing along my fence, nandina in my front yard, chinese privets in my back yard, three euonymus bushes in my garden area, and a barberry bush growing right next to those. At least for the privets I've started digging them up for bonsai. They were growing next to my fence and were messing it up so they had to go!
So good to know. My daughter and I are starting to fill in a new home where we live. I was considering one or two of these! Now I know to avoid!!! YES!!!! Keep these videos up! I am new to your channel and love it! 🌻🌼🌱🌿🌳💖
I have vinca in my yard and I absolutely love it since I live on the edge of the woods and it keeps a lot of prickers from growing, and it is one of the first things the pollinators go to in the spring. Although I can see why it's bad...
I've tried to stay native. I've recently just transplanted a White Oak sappling to the middle of my backyard. The old occupants have put two Rose of Sharon trees out, but they're so slow growing. I'm terrible at identifying invasive plants, but I love to watch it all grow, and discovering new plants - even all the different weeds that grow in the different times of the warmer seasons. This year, I've been getting a succulent like plant taking over my flower and garden beds. Hard to keep up with.
I work in Bushland Regeneration in Australia which involves mostly weed eradication and natural re introducing native species. Every time I go to a nursery the urge to spray Glyphosate mix is high. Thanks for doing this it is a bigger help than you realise Great job👍
Hi, thank you for sharing. I live in Minnesota, and one of my nightmares is creeping Charlie. We have lived in the same house for 25 years, and this has only become a problem in the last 5 years or so. It has made its way all the way up to my hostas, and the grass in front of them. Is there any suggestions that you know of to eliminate this. I spend about a month each spring weeding and it comes back even if I get the roots. Thanks so much for all your knowledge about inside and outdoor plants.
Borax mixed in water kills creeping charlie but you have to spray at the right time with the right mixture & you may have to spray if a couple times each year for 2-3 years to eradicate it.
The previous owners of my house planted bamboo on one side of the lawn and now it’s a nightmare to keep up with the new shoots coming up everywhere... I don’t know how to get rid of it without digging up the whole lawn!
Some people (like me) have a small container garden. If I plant wisteria (which I just did) it can't really go anywhere except where I want it to go on the small structure I have on my roof. I also plan to grow bamboo this year. It aint going anywhere beyond its container. So for people like me, these plants are fine and I am glad that I have Garden centers that sell them.
Sarah Robertson A neighboring property that is not maintained has the mother of a wisteria and that damn thing has invaded everything in its path, went underground 300’ to kill s huge ash tree on my property that I purchased. It has covered every tree on that property and the feeder roots have crawled onto this property and trees. I have fought for two years and cannot get ahead of it!
Did you mention trumpet flower ? I baught 2 several years ago and o man. Took over everything Drops seeds all over grows underground and pops up many feet away....hummingbird and bees love it but there really is no controlling it
Alice you are so right with that trumpet flower/vine! My brother in law insisted I take a cutting from him. It took me two years to remove that invasive sucker!!!!!!!!
@@alicemilling3706 Everytime I saw it come up I would yank it out! I was on patrol for the new shoots and I won! That's about all I can say is what experience I had with it. You might be able to put plastic over it? I think it would just keep growing under it until it found daylight though! OMG Alice I feel your pain! 😁👍🌱💪💖
I don't know where you live but in part of the U.S., at least, it's invasive. Look up phlox. It's native to part of U.S and some species are also good for ground cover.
@@songmakerdragon2393 I tried phlox and it won't grow in SE Texas. At least not in my area at the Gulf Coast. I think it is beautiful and would love to have it in my yard. Maybe you now why it won't take here. We get a fair amount of rain and of course the gulf breezes which probably carry salt. I do have Vica Major (large leafed periwinkle) and it stays pretty self contained. What spreads pretty bad is the Asiatic Jasmine. The vines are real touch and hard to break and they root as they travel. But I keep mine under control with the weed eater. I hit the border every week making sure to cut into the ground as I go, getting all the vines. The lawn mower keeps any vines, shooting for the lawn, at bay. The Vinca is mixed in with the Jasmine and it is really beautiful when the Vinca stems arch up and over the Jasmine. I have had both in the ground for 10 years and it has not gotten out of hand. I learned that you just have to be aggressive in dealing with it. Gardening takes a lot of work and you have to stay on top of it. A lot of people get tired of dealing with the garden and stop tending to it. This is when a lot of problems happen. I love gardening -- it is my exercise and my therapy. When I get too old to tend to it, I will rip everything out and probably hire some company to just come in, strip the beds, and cover them with heavy mulch and rocks.
@@songmakerdragon2393 honestly, I do not know the species. They do not sell phlox in the garden centers in my area, (South East Texas, on the Gulf Coast). Or, I should say, the times I have gone to garden centers I did not see them. They may have been sold out already. So I had to purchase on line, and I purchased those listed as zone 9a -- which is my zone. I just could not get them to grow. I have purchased many difference species of plants on-line and have had great success -- so I know it is not that. All the bulbs do great and I have had great success with day-lilies, ornamental grasses, shrubs and trees. Just can not get the phlox to survive. Oh well, you can not win them all. But I envy those that get to grow Phlox, I think they are absolutely beautiful. Thank you for your interest. I hope you garden and have great success at it!
I've got two of these in my landscape and wisteria on my neighbor's property. The wisteria sends out ground shoots and climbs trees to roof level. Insidious plant!
I planted English Ivy along the border of my back porch covered patio. I used hog wire and twine to build a grid for the Ivy to grow up. In three years I have a living greenwall blocking the harsh sun, giving privacy from neighbors and birds love to fly through it. At this point it’s trying to spread on the ground so I just pick them up and thread through existing green wall ( 2021 polar vortex did damage it some ). I also just check to make sure it’s not growing up the brick. It pulls off easy when just a few feet long and I weave it back into green Ivy wall. It’s easy. A fun garden chore that doesn’t take long. If I lost interest I’d dig it out. I wouldn’t let it go nuts.
The 16 invasive species mentioned in this video are: Chinese Wisteria, Bamboo, Winter Creeper, English Ivy, Japanese Honeysuckle, Winged Bruning Bush, Nandina / Sacred Bamboo (toxic berries too), Chinese Privet, Autumn Olive, Bardford Pear Tree, Common Perrywinkle / Vinca, Japanese Barberry, Princess Tree / Royal Paulownia, Sweet Autumn Clamatis, Weeping Lovegrass and Japanese Meadowsweet.
And add spiderwort, plantain hostas and a sedum called steppables-Ugh! They are impossible to eradicate.
I have the sweet autumn clematis and it died back so it isn’t a problem after 3 years.
@@dustyflats3832 Spiderwort is native to North America. Just because a plant is aggressive and hard to control in gardens doesn't mean it's invasive. It has to be nonnative to be invasive; otherwise it's just aggressive. All environments need some fast-growing aggressive species to be able to recover from disruptions and handle heavy herbivory.
Hostas are not native to the US, but they're not considered invasive in most of the country because they don't take over habitats and the native wildlife (especially deer) easily keep them in check. They're an introduced species, not an invasive species. Oddly enough, spiderwort is one of the plant suggested to replace hostas if you want native shade plants.
Sedum is a genus with 400-500 plants, some of which are native to the US. Steppables is a brand that sells plants for use in grass-free lawns. They sell a variety of sedums, so it's impossible to tell which species you're referring to.
@@pendlera2959 whatever. If it is from here or not-anything that starts spreading Everywhere IS invasive. Potato potato.
So, I'm watching this a year later and this is a lesson I JUST learned as a new gardener!! Just because you CAN grow it, doesnt mean you SHOULD! LOL! Because my land is in West Texas,of course I'm looking for plants and trees that are hardy and drought tolerant. Of course i wen on Ebay and Amazon and put all kinds of stuff on my lists. Now I'm realizing i have a delicate ecosystem and i need to be careful what i introduce. I'm learning a lot by going to the Ag sites and getting information about what is safe to plant and what I shouldn't introduce. I think that's a good hunt for people. Their local Ag office extension will have exactly what they need to have a great beneficial yard. We live and learn......sometimes too late......ie. carp....who knew??? Lol! Great video, I didnt mind the format at all. Thank you.
Why don't you plant fruit trees they are none invasive, Every Spring you will have lovely blossom, and in the Autumn you will have loads of fruit to pick, and if you don't want to pick the fruit, the birds will enjoy them, and the bees will enjoy the blooms in the spring. I am sure there must be some fruit trees that would suit Texas. Hope this helps you. Greetings from Northern Ireland.
@@winifredthompson2470 thank you, I am going to plant some and also grow in massive containers. The land out there is full of clay and very dry but it it possible. Currently I am still in New Yoek City so all I can do is plan and garden in my apartment. I am planning to start buying my trees here and nurture them in the apartment as seedling.
@@angelalibi1 Dear Natacha, I would wait till you move to your new Farm, dig a good big hole at least 2 times the size of the root of the tree you are planting, put,plenty of peat and good honest cow manueur into it, not fertiliser. Fill the hole with water and put your young tree into the hole and put the clay soil around it, you can improve your soil if you can get somebody to leave you a load of chicken peat manueur, don't worry about feathers in it, that will all break down to soil improvers. You will probably be able to get a load of this stuff for nothing, and if you dig it into your clay soil it really improves it. You know that when you,put in young trees you will need to keep them well watered for a little while till they get established. Ask in Texas, what is the best breed of tree for that type of environment, you might be told orange grove, lemon grove etc,
This is my advice to you. I wish you all the best. Winifred, Thompson, Lisburn, Co.Antrim, Northern Ireland.
@@winifredthompson2470 thank you! I have since learned about building up my soil and about bone meal, feather meal, chicken manure (a magical substance 🤣) and Rabbit manure. I have been using fish emulsion on my garden and started my own compost. I am loving the process! Thank you for you help! I have written it down!💚💚💚
@@winifredthompson2470 I am planning a number of fruit trees. I have found that they will actually grow and like the clay with some ammending.
When I was first married, we bought a house. I planted some wisteria. My new neighbor was a lovely older man. He came to my front door with a lilac bush. He offered to plant it for me if I would let him rip out my kudzu.
Smart neighbor
Haha I like him 😄
lilac is invasive too -it suckers up everwhere
@@kaloarepo288 it is native in her area?
@@kaloarepo288 Not like wisteria. Lilac is easy to trim back. Wisteria pops up EVERYWHERE! I find wisteria sending out 50 foot vines and I live way up north. It has to be total kudzu down south.
Bruh my neighbor has Chinese wisteria growing on bamboo. The wisteria climbs on the bamboo. The ultimate invasive combo
Lol 😂
Lol, do they have an outdoor kitchen & chickens?
@@Grouundedkidz no I don’t think so
Hunt Mike bruh that’s racist AF
Well, I guess that's one way of having a plant privacy fence/wall
Georgia here. If it's invasive, it's grown here. One of our worst is Sweet Gum tree. It grows both by seed and the roots sent out shoots. My back pasture is inundated. I'm also fighting Vinca Major and lemon mint that the previous owner put into a spot ALONG WITH English Ivy. It's a mess. I work at a nursery, and I try to gently let customers know when they're purchasing something that is going to take over. They're very grateful.
Where do you live that sweet gum is invasive? Out of all the native east coast US trees I wouldn't have guessed that would've become a problem overseas. I'd expect it to be tulip poplar or Boxelder lol
Invasives have more impact than just one homeowners yard. Some viewers don't seem to understand that these plants have seeds or berries that birds and wildlife drop in other areas. The plants become monocultures in natural areas. Invasives are a predominant reason that so many species appear on the endangered species list. Another example of human-caused habitat destruction.
LeLynn Koch I’m living in vine hell because of neighbors that refuse to manage their collection of invasive species 😅
Humans fit the definition of invasive species.
LeLynn Koch welcome to America!
I don't really care! I love my invasive plants! If they spread to the whole world blame nature for making them so adaptable 🤣🤣🤣 well soon or later they will dominate all the places anyways but i really think probably a new plague would appear to control their "excess" in an eventual scenario like this because that's how mother nature seems to work... Human's activities and destruction of forests for example are way more concerning not to the word (Earth will continue existing), but for ourselves and many other creatures!
@@thomastucker5686 how so?
This video should be called "16 plant species growing in my yard that the previous home owner planted because she owned her own nursery. " Or just "My Daily Nightmare."
MightySapphire 😂😂😂 You are hilarious! So true! Lol 👏😩
Me too!! I just shared this video on facebook with almost the same comment! (Luckily we don’t have bamboo though!)
I've got rid of many of them after previous owner, but I can only keep an ivy in reasonable size.
Have I missed here Buddleya? I don't have it, but my neighbours have, so it is fight with its seedling each year.
MightySapphire. Your comment is both funny and sad. I fight my neighbors bamboo and the natural honeysuckle. On the bright side, all that exercise is good for me.
Same
When we moved into our house in Maryland there was a pretty stand of bamboo planted by the previous owners. Over the next 5-6 years it totally took over our yard so we had no space and no other plants. We made a neighbor very angry with us when we refused to give him shoots - - he lived on the edge of our big woodsy park (Rock Creek Park)and we didn’t want the bamboo invading that beautiful park.
We had to get a contractor in with a backhoe to dig it out of our yard which was enormously expensive. We kept getting shoots for years.
When I see bamboo in someone’s yard I shudder.
lol I'm in MD & when I lived in Takoma Park we had a ton of Bamboo in our backyard that I actually miss now
Be aware, there are two basic types of bamboo, those that spread via their roots, and those that do not. So you don’t need to always shudder. 8 ). I have a non spreading variety that I have been coddling for five years, it is just a tiny bit bigger than when I got it.
In in Seattle and my neighbors down the street just cut all of their bamboo that was going crazy. Thankfully got myself a stick to go (gonna dry it for decor!)
Elizabeth as a gardener I prize bamboo for support poles, it lasts for years, is very tough, I go “trim” my son’s bamboo every year and keep a bunch of the best poles for that purpose. He keeps threatening to take it out, but he is not that ambitious. His is a very old stand, but very stable , has not increased in the five years he has been in the house. Good for you getting some for decor. It is a cool plant, though no doubt can get out of control. If you want to have a panic attack, look up a video, put in the search something like worker building bamboo scaffolding. It is widely used in Asia for that purpose.
@@lilolmecj
Oh thank goodness!
Someone who knows what they're doing with bamboo. If you only barley research a plant and call it bad or invasive when there are hundreds of species, you do the entire bamboo family an injustice. When you plant bamboo that can throw runners you must place 3'-4' barriers inset into the ground to ensure it's growth is CONTROLLED. Consult PROFESSIONAL arborists (like my fiancee) to learn or Morakami Gardens in Delray Beach, Florida.
To say ALL bamboo is invasive is just plain wrong. To identify your plant and then understand its habits is being a responsible grower in your garden.
I learned so much about this problem from Doug Tallamy videos and books 4 years ago when I got into outdoor gardening. I'm still pulling up ivy and periwinkle each year but I've planted so many native species of trees, shrubs and perennials. I've seen such a big difference in the amount of birds, butterflies and bees on my property now. Thank you for bringing attention to this ongoing problem🇨🇦✌️ choose natives whenever possible and ask the garden centres about alternatives to these invasives
Me: what a pretty plant!
You: dont buy this! It grows quickly and will not die!
Me(and my brown thumb) : 🤔you dont say...
That is funny. I can testify to the truth about the English Ivy. I planted 4 small containers years ago on the North side of the house. I must trim it at least once a year and remove it from my Japanese Maple tree or it will damage the house and my favorite tree.
I think it attracts or harbors mosquitoes.😬
I think we need a more advanced way of looking at this. Any imported species that directly kills local plants or animals is a destructive invasive species. Like vines that kill trees by shading out all the light - yes - they are very bad & we should shop importing them & try to get rid of them as much as possible. And knapweed is toxic to both cattle & other plants - gotta do everything possible to control & reduce its population!!! However, when it come to bushes & trees that are only competing for space on the ground space by growing - plants naturally compete
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Tasha Battaglino 🤣🤣
Right? You say “invasive” I hear “hard to call”.
The only invasive species in my garden is a gopher! That jerk eats everything. I am convinced if I put out fake plants, he would eat those too.
Your gopher is a native species
@Joe Smith Thank you Joe! I will give these a try😊
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Here in Houston Texas Ive never seen a gopher but I do have to contend with insect size invaders.
@@HBO1984. maybe I will have to move to Texas. Now I have a bunny fighting with the gopher to see who can cause the most damage in my garden😡 what insects do you have a problem with in Houston?
I'll be digging up half the yard this weekend.
digging, digging, ....hahaha 😂
Don't dig. Sheet mulch with cardboard & a thick lair of well broken down woodchips. You may be able to get it free from local landscaping companies.
It's much more affective at smothering weeds and prior invasives then trying to dig everything up, is alot less work, & will improve your soil for growing.
Akariel not to mention a good chunk of invasives prefer newly or consistently disturbed soil
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Yup, and some weed seeds can stay in the soil for as long as 50 years.
When you till, you're kicking all those seeds back up to germinate.
That's the roll most of those first and secondary succession plants ,people consider weeds, play within ecology.
They're first responders to major enviromental change, erosion & compaction.
Such as bracken ferns after a forest fire.
Most of these things I have in my yard 😟
I’d like to see a video about how to get rid of these invasive species without resorting to poison.
Mowing will keep most of them under control, at least in the confines of your yard, if the location is suitable for mowing. Cut down the plant, keep the area mowed. A few of these have widely scattered seeds, which is a bigger problem since you can't mow the entire environment. Also, if you're mowing something like bamboo--it will keep sending up shoots in the lawn for quite some time, but if it doesn't have any unmowed areas to support the growth it will eventually die.
I've killed leaves on my houseplant when dish soap and vinegar touched them. I've thought about spreading dish soap or bleach on some weeds but I have not tried it yet.
Me too
Boiling water might work for some of them.
I got rid of weeds on the side of the house by spraying it with white vinegar.
Just fill a spray bottle and go to town on them.
I actually get kind of angry at the whole landscape design industry for bringing in all these invasive plants and planting them everywhere. A professional landscape architect planted wisteria in the yard where I live, even though we're on the edge of a woodland. I've spent years killing it, and new sprouts keep coming up.
Oof. That's a no no..
Boiling water?
I don't know what type of wisteria I planted many years ago, but I do know that after digging down about 5 feet to root it out it has reappeared years later in the middle of my rose bush. The more you chop them back the more vigorous they grow. They refuse to die!
Find something that competes with it that you can control perhaps.
Dan Wilkinson using forms of nature against other forms of nature. It’s what the environmentalists should be doing more.
My grandparents planted the bamboo, and it took over the yard! We found where the roots were running under the foundation of the house. It grew from the woodline across the backyard, into the side yard and the front yard too. Some of the roots running horizontally across the yards were a couple of inches across. When I sold that property, it was to friends, who already knew what was there.
I work at a large nursery and discourage people from buying/growing wisteria unless they plan to train it into a tree. I provide full disclosure that wisteria is very invasive and can break-up concrete. Additionally, I ALWAYS strongly recommend against planting English Ivy and bamboo to my customers. With regards to the latter, I tell them that the rhizomes can pop up in their neighbors' yards and several blocks away to others. When that doesn't seem to phase them, I let them know that the bamboo can invade their underground piping/plumbing systems and has the potential to cause thousands upon thousands of dollars in damages to their homes. That makes them walk away REAL fast from the bamboo, and with good reason.
Ms7of8 love your explanation!
Can you grow bamboo in containers? If you can, that should save all the headaches and nightmares, right?
@@friend-of-furbies Yes. The containers are generally placed underground and made of heavy-gauge metal, as the bamboo is so invasive, it can even break through metal. One can also use above-ground containers, but that will limit the size of the bamboo, generally by 50 to 75% smaller than in the ground. However, there are over 1,400 varieties of bamboo, so you can always find a few that might meet your criteria for growing well in containers as well as your hardiness zone. Note that you will have to water it more frequently, if the bamboo is planted in a container, which is a finite amount of space and will more quickly dehydrate.
@@Ms7of8 I see, thank you for responding! Bamboo is so intense lol
@@friend-of-furbies You welcome and quite right re: bamboo !
Invasive depends highly on area youre in and what part of the world your in so specifying where its invasive is really helpful
I am such a bad gardener, I have killed 3 of these just trying to take care of them! My plants do best if I ignore them. Lol
You are just a loving person. You can love a plant to death. Most likely soggy roots. Watering touch will drown them. I have the same issue. 😊 we could make a living loving people's invasive plants to death. Lol
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Don't move them
LoL
The plant that is the bane of my existence is big leaf maple. It's a native tree, but every year I'm pulling up seedlings. The mess of leaves in the fall, and the helicopters in the spring. It was a happy day when the neighbor cut down the massive clump (which was starting to rot, and dropped most of it's mess on my property) between our properties.
Great topic-Please think twice! Also please add Trumpet vine to the top of this list. As a novice, I bought one from a nursery for growing on a trellis under my kitchen window in MA. Once established, it rapidly grew and didn’t like being confined to the trellis. It damaged any cedar shingle it grew over (and under) and began to corroded my foundation 😳 so I dug it up and tossed it in my compost pile (because when I have a problem, I prefer to double it). The next year I learned that it can sprout up from any tiny bit of root missed so I was hacking up my garden beds and lawn for years trying to get it all. At year 5, I realized it had also grown out the back of my compost, under the grass and began to choke my beautiful magnolia, beloved peonies and several other flowers and evergreens. I’m an organic gardener but in one of my darkest moments I tried micro amounts of carefully applied herbicide. Apparently this angered the plant Gods because it ate it up like fertilizer and came back stronger than ever. I built alters, vowed to nurture every green thing, volunteered to assist any gardener and toiled ceaselessly to pay down my karmic debt but still my prayers of mercy went unanswered. Finally, after 15 years of blood, sweat and tears, I had to sell my house. If it pops up in my new yard, I’m contacting Stephen King.
Appreciate your sense of humor, lol. While I type this, I am looking out the window at my lush, healthy, yellow hummingbird vine. :)
Trumpet vine is technically a native species in America. But yeah it's extremely destructive to structures and property. I have one on my wooden fence the neighbor planted years ago and has completely engulfed and ruined the fence but at least gives us privacy :)
It would be great if you could suggest plants that are "like" those invasive ones such as burning bush can be replaced by native blue berry shrubs, ect.
Didn't know they were invasive, the only reason I didn't get one is because my friend told me that one had actually caught on fire hence the burning bush, because it emits some kind of gas so I said I think I should leave that one alone.
Try checking your closest university extension. They should have lists and/or information sheets like that
Depending on your local climate, fothergillas (gardenii or Mount Airy) are good alternatives to burning bush. They are also U.S. native.
Japanese knotweed is banned here in the UK. It's roots have been known to go through concrete, and destroying building structures.
A nightmare to get rid of, and very expensive.
Wow what beautifully strong roots
@@coffeebeann1 Not if you were living beside someone that had it growing in their back garden, and you couldn't sell your house because of it and it is very expensive to get rid of it. It is illegal to plant here in Northern Ireland, Greeting from Northern Ireland.
Figs have pretty strong roots too. They can grow out of other trees, destroy buildings.
Berk Sarioz at least figs are susceptible to triclopyr
I had a nonfruiting type in my tea tree. killed the bottom half with poison, but left the top half stuck in the branches of the other tree
It just put roots into the other tree and I’ve had to cut it again twice now.
We have it all around my work. It will grow out of the smallest crack in asphalt or concrete. A small piece of root from 1 is all you need to spread it unknowingly. Crazy invasive plant.
English Ivy will also eventually suck the moisture out of brick work if grown up the side of a building. We had to get all the bricks repointed after the ivy was cut down. Looks nice, very 'olde worlde' but a bit of a nightmare for your property.
vines on brick, brick will be destroyed
Just get trailing ivy instead of ivy with suckers.
The water sucking properties of ivy are great for cob structures
Oh my gosh, when we bought our house the previous owner, had English ivy, growing on the brick fireplace, I cut it off at the bottom and let it die, by the next spring I was taking it to the green clean getting rid of it for good.
Heder Helix is nativ to loads of European countries. It’s one of the few native evergreens.
Over here it’s a very good plant for birds and Insects but iron no one uses it anymore … It provides great nesting opportunities , pollen and berries extremely late in the year. It doesn’t need to climb up a house and can grow into great hedges also, but people plant utterly useless , non native thuja and cherry laurel hedges instead ..
We’re struggling with a load of US „imports“ that are invasive over here and many of the same invasive Neophytes from Asia….
I have most of those listed in my tiny yard. But my worst daily nightmare is the “Morning Glory” vine.
The bamboo is horrific also!
I'm kinda glad I mistaken the periwinkle given to me for a houseplant 😂
It's doing just fine in a small pot lol
That's where it belongs
If it's invasive
I remove English Ivy from Seattle parks every single week. It grows fast and kills our urban forests. There's huge volunteer events to remove it, but we can never get it all.
Do you leave Ivy that grows on fences? Ivy that is over 10 years old blooms in autumn and lots of insects feed from it. At least that is how it is in.northern Germany. I do remove it from trees and garden beds. Yesterday I was tempted to remove a lot from a wild area in my garden, but there is a chance that hedgehogs are overwintering there. I know we have some toads overwintering on our property as well and I don't want to disturb the animals. I'll wait till March.
@@jinde75 It might be native in Germany.
If you mix weed killer with paraffin and brush it on the leaves it will kill almost everything without damaging the ground
@@jinde75 it's native in europe, gotta love my ivy mate!
@@XLightChanX I know it's native. I wrote how I can be beneficial. I just don't like it when it kills my trees and covers the whole garden.
I almost bought English Ivy today to grow around my mailbox but then something in me made me think “this might be a bad idea...” I’m glad I thought that, my neighbors are always ripping Ivy off of the side of their house.
English ivy is not something to worry about- unless you leave it untended for 5 years..
Great for potting and hanging plants but not outdoors ! (:
It will be fine if you tend to it, ivy can be controlled and should be ok around a mail box just don’t put around a home, or anywhere large :)
You are correct to choose another plant. We have English IVY that was here long before we came. If I don't regularly cut it way back, it grows literally like a weed and is impossible to remove. It harbors rats. Hard pass. Find a nice native plant, one that will support the other wildlife in your area.
@@athenamissinghome619 Just don't put it on your boundary, easy way to upset the neighbours
My neighbor planted bamboo a few years ago at our fence line and i can confirm that it grows very fast and the roots spread is a problem. We had a stalk come up through the floor of our shed. It is so strong that I have to use an axe to even choose it down. I also have honeysuckle on the opposite side of the yard. It grows naturally here and is almost impossible to keep up with. I spend one summer a few years ago pulling and burning it from inside me fence. That worked pretty well, but I still have to pull out the stray regrow periodically.
Here in the uk there are so many buildings and walls destroyed by ivy, the roots easily burrow through wood and mortar and as the stem expands and turns to a thick trunk it separates the bricks and destroys the structure. My mum decided to plant ivy along a fence and a trelace on the house and within a few years we had to replace the door frame and remove the fence completely because it caused so much damage, I'm still cutting bits down 20 years later because it just doesn't die.
Bamboo is no joke. My neighbor planted it along the fence line for privacy. He got his privacy and I got the rhizomes 25 feet in front of my shed. I dig those rhizomes out about 2 x week. He got the rhizomes into his septic tank.
I watched this in the nick of time. I just planted (in trays thank goodness) these same wisteria seeds that someone gave my husband. I think I’ll grow something different. 😃
Jules Tor Wisteria does quite well in pots. Mine was on a deck, not a problem.
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Thank you. I do love the look of wisteria so I’ll grow mine in pots also. Thank you for the tip.
Jules Tor Try keeping it in a container. Over the years, you can train a nice gnarled trunk. Also you can control the seeds.
There is a native wisteria.I don’t know the genius name but I know it’s called American wisteria or Kentucky wisteria
This may sound strange but strawberries can be very invasive once they start putting out suckers, the roots are so tough and go so deep that if you allow it to it will take over your whole growing space/medium, even the stems that connect the suckers are hard to break.
Native plants by definition are not invasive. One can't invade their native habitat.
Technically, your strawberries are aggressive. A plant can be aggressive without being invasive. Invasive actually is detrimental to the environment. A lot of people confuse the two terms.
Are you sure they are strawberries & not mock strawberries? Mock strawberries grow all over my yard. It is a vine that puts out what look like little strawberries, but they are tasteless. Mock strawberry has yellow flowers. Real strawberry has white flowers.
Round up will kill anything just get it on the leaves and nothing around it that you don’t wanna kill
That’s why I use strawberry as a ground cover. It keeps the weeds down but does not climb on the shrubs
Thank you for the info. Can you do a video for the opposite? Like what are some easy and good plant for the garden
Definitely will :)
Great idea! Of course, the thing is also, what is invasive in zone 6 isn't in zone 4, 5. Couldn't grow a decent wisteria here if you tried really hard. Englemann Ivy, honeysuckle (japonica), mint spp....yikes! Russian olive, and purple loosestrife used to be sold in Nurseries here. No longer. No one buys (merchants), the growers don't propagate...It's all education.
Google native plants for your area
@@ellenmcintyre1247 Also keep in mind how the the season where you live are changing. As an example, where I live (Atlantic City, NJ) spring and fall are about 5 minutes long nowadays. Not so when I was growing up.
My husband bought wisteria to plant on our newly built pergola. It took three (3) years to destroy Mayflower beds...my neighbors. Garden and even under ...through our pond. And up in my other neighbors yard..we spent a fortune...and countless hours trying
to fight it.I finally had to destroy my soil tear it out and start from scratch. Good luck and God Bless
My Grandmother had a princess tree on her property. Such a pretty tree with beautiful flowers and giant leaves, but I wasn't surprised to see it on this list haha! Every year we would have to pull up what seemed like a never ending supply of new trees. It definitely proved that it can grow anywhere, even in the rock hard Georgia red clay that barely grows anything.
Sort of like Scotch Broom in the Pacific NW. Someone brought it her 50 years ago or so, now it's everywhere.
It's was a plant that was planted along freeways in WA state. Until people started to complain about it causing horrible hay fever. It cost thousands to remove.
Home Depot is great for selling plants not best in your particular zone....lol. they will sell anything you will buy whether it will grow in your region or not🤬
T. Thomas yes they will and it’s annoying.... You definitely have to do your research before purchasing their plants.
well yeah then they can sell you another one when it dies and you assume you did something wrong. lol
They do that with succulents too! Saying you can grow them anywhere, especially your window sill, but many windows don’t get enough sunshine all day long to prevent your succulents from becoming stretched out.
@@Emiliapocalypse . I've seen spray painted succulents in pots that have no drainage holes. They had them under a watering system filled to the top with water. And then other succulents on shelves not getting enough light all stretched out. Somebody knocked over a one gallon aloe vera and it only had 2 inches of roots.
Lowe’s how about fall planting plants in spring!
I have wild roses growing in my yard and will find little ones growing all over my yard, they reseed them self like crazy. Keep them under control and you can have a great looking wall of pink flowers from spring to fall.
We in Australia have a Biosecurity department which governs this sort of stuff, sometimes nationally, and some just state to state, as we have a wide range of growing conditions. What may end up being invasive in some states is a treasured garden item in others. We have a lot of plants we simply can not get for these reasons. Nurseries are not permitted to sell the plants on relevant lists for their areas.
Lantana is the worst.
I wish we would do that in the US. It's legal to sell almost all invasives here and without any warning to the buyers.
I had that autumn clematis and loved it. I will say I had to cut it back at least 3 times during the growing season, and back almost to the ground in late fall. But it was glorious and fragrant in bloom and covered an ugly post holding up the porch. For me the extra work was worth it.
I built a raised bed and grow bamboo in it and it is beautiful. I keep an eye on it so it doesn’t spread. When the wind blows it makes this beautiful sound.
do you use it for crafts? might help keep its population in check. Bamboo is really strong and you could easily make your own garden stakes for tomatoes, beans, ect with them. It used to be believed that paleolithic humans didn't go into asia during the stone age. But one theory is that the bamboo was so good for spears they just stopped making flint spearheads and arrowheads and made their weapons from bamboo, which biodegrades, leaving no evidence. :D its a lovely and very useful plant, but it has to be looked after!
AnimeShinigami13 yes, I plan to use it for trellis stakes for my plants. One of the types of bamboo I grow is black bamboo so it will make beautiful trellis stakes. I read somewhere that bamboo is very good for the environment because it absorbs greenhouse gases and releases more oxygen than trees.
He’s referring to Running Bamboo , there is a less invasive alternative called Clumping Bamboo.
Crouton I have both types of bamboo. Clumping also spreads. I have 1 clumping bamboo that is getting close to the neighbors yard that I will need to move and divide.
I was thinking about growing bamboo for homestead projects but now I know that I need to do a lot of research first and see if it can be kept under control. I already have a few of the vines in this video that previous owners let loose.
There is native spireas, too, that look just like the Japanese Spirea. Subalpine Spirea, or Alpine Spirea, is native to the Pacific Northwest, looks just like Japanese Spirea, and is also found in garden centers. The other spirea is Douglas's Spirea, or Hardhack. Looks quite different, and can be aggressive. Loves wet soil, and is also native to wetlands in the PNW.
Amazing tip, thanks
That's a problem in general with this video. It's important to call out variety so that folks understand that not every member of the species us invasive.
@@carolynwarfield1057 they kinda like a boardstroke info / media provider #missedme #clickbait
Sadly, most of these invasive plants have a well behaved native species that would be a very good alternative. Why import plants instead of identifying the natives & allowing THEM to flourish? Most folks spend more time picking out a fridge than their plants, unleashing havoc on not only their yard but neighboring yards as well. Nurseries are bad about selling whatever will sell, the Hell with the environment, NOT a gr8 business model. Many sources are availible to identify natives, use them! One you missed is Kudzu, scourge of the South.
Ugh Kudzu! The bane of my garden.
Katie Kane, you definitely got that right!! ✌🏻❤
@@diannenaworensky6698 ty sister!
@@saturnynetitan stuff is such a bugger to get rid of, and to think it was ALL originally planted & even recommended by Extension Agents. Smh
Never plant anything that says creeper!
In the UK I planted a Lonicera Henryi in a far off part of our garden (we have a large garden) and forgot about it. 7 years later when we'd retired and got back into gardening I was appalled to find a 20' high, 40' long thicket that had throttled several mature trees and shrubs. Think of Sleeping Beauty and the mass of thorns that the Prince had to get through to release her and that was what faced us (but no thorns thank heavens) It took 3 days to cut it all down and untwist it from branches of the few trees that were just vabout hanging on. And 3 years later we're still doing extermination watches to deal with the suckers. Never felt the same about honeysuckle even though the perfume is delightful.
Previous owner planted many of these. Been working on the honeysuckle for 7 years. It’s going well. Have to pull every spring.
We have lantana in Australia that's invasive in some areas and not in other areas. It's good to get to know what's invasive where you are before planting things. Great video
I love lantana. I live in mid Atlantic east USA so it is an annual here
If you like and wish for an invasive species in your garden? PLEASE DONT BE A SELFISH NEIGHBOUR..... have the plant but PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE plant them in POTS so that they don’t take over and invade your innocent 😇 neighbours beautiful garden! THANK YOU 🙏. That is all... ❤️🦋🙏
With some of those invasives, that's not even good enough. Be very careful about what you buy to put in a pot.
I mean, as someone who lives in the middle of no where with no neighbor for achres, I think it will be okay in the ground. Not everyone can high five their neighbor from their window hahaha
I have a burning passion for invasive plants and love making stories out of them. However I don’t wanna plant any anywhere near my garden anytime soon.
But the problem with them producing seeds is the seeds are carried by many vectors: wind, birds, squirrels, etc
our state has a program where they trade you a Dogwood sapling for a picture of you with a cut down Callary Pear :)
This is also why there are restrictions on bringing plants in from foreign countries, but people still try to sneak things in, because they remind them of "home". Please do not do that. Even if you control your plant and keep it as a houseplant, you may give cuttings to others who won't be so careful. There are strong reasons for the restrictions.
This is an exceptionally important topic, and many thanks to the person who posted it. Please continue! You did leave out Scotch Broom though. Yes, it's beautiful, and stunningly bright yellow in spring. But it's horribly invasive and spreads like wildfire. It has taken over vast areas of northern California wildlands, but some nurseries still offer it, because people think "that's so pretty! I want one in my garden!". So one plant becomes many. Nurseries should be sources of horticultural education, and what they sell should be attentive to the local environment and native species.
Please keep up this important conversation! 👍
Not sure if you can buy these at nurseries, but: japanese knotweed
It covered almost half our garden when we bought the house and has taken us YEARS to get rid of. That's with spraying, digging, weeding.. You name it, we've tried it. 4 years later and we still have it popping up every now and then. You can even pour concrete over this and it'll just grow right through! 😱
So true. Living in SW Fl and having had a landscaping company for 20+ years here, I've seen and dealt with too many invasive species. And homeowners who are down for the winters don't care. They want it like "up north."
My Sister lives in FL. Her neighbor had a nursery business, Every kind of plant is growing crazy all over the 3 acres! Big time jungle!!! Then her neighbor 3 houses down is raising those black and white iguanas! They get loose in "the jungle", Wonder if some of these invasive plants are poisonous for gopher tourtise?
I remember I once bought this really pretty looking packet of seeds and was growing it. It was growing really well. Decided to look it up and all I could find was websites saying "Invasive, do not grow," I was in a pickle and decided to actually try to kill it on purpose instead of allowing it to go wild. Learned a lesson that day to always look up a plant before planting it. I have seen what can happen when invasive plants come to your area and I do not want to be the one to introduce another one.
Lilly of the valley is really pretty, I have found memories of it as a child and I want to plant it, but I heard that it was an invasive plant so that is another one I will have to skip.
I used to live in an apartment with a small yard and concrete slab. I remember painters hacked down all of the bamboo to paint the building and everyday during my lunch break I measured those bamboo plants and yes they do grow up to a foot a day! The bamboo also spread out underneath the concrete slab to the other side of my tiny yard.
You should also do a post of grass and how majority of them also come from China and are technically weeds, like St. Augustine Grass which is very popular here in North Texas. I hate that grass and how the runners can invade a flower bed and are almost impossible to keep out. I think it was some painting of a meadow area in Europe that made the grass lawn so popular. Why else would anyone grow something that you have to water like crazy just to cut down to look pretty? ASININE!
Agree. I see people putting so much effort like they doing serious farming only to out grass seeds. You could grow so much healthy organic food with all those fertilizer, mowing and hardwork
I wish my HOA would allow us to replace the lawn with a native ground cover. In the backyard where they can't see, I'm courting several "weeds" that are gorgeous, and don't require any special attention.
@@cariwaldick4898 the HOA is why democracy isn’t a good thing for everyone. Majority rules is usually bereft of the big picture as it pertains to the laws of nature. Most grass is a weed, usually from China. St Augustine is a prime example.
@@KharisReimagines I could deal with it if it was really a democracy. It's not. They come with rules and restrictions we NEVER got to vote on. It would be great if the city would back up the homeowner against harmful restrictions--but they don't. It's one of my hot-buttons, so I'll quit now.
@@KharisReimagines Most grass that the general public plants is a weed. You just have to learn about, then get, something native to plant.
I’m in year 2 of trying to eradicate 2 60+ year old clumps of oriental knot weed.... An incredibly invasive plant with an incredible root system. I’m mostly digging out the rhizomes wherever shoots pop up, but using glyphosate where I have to. The underground reservoir of stored energy is incredible, and the plant is amazingly resilient. This may take years!
There's an easy way to control bamboo, which is to eat the shoots. Harvest them before they're 12 in / 30 cm tall. Peel off the tough layers, and make sure you boil them for 15-20 minutes to denature the alkaloids (similar to those found in potatoes). They're used in all kinds of Asian cuisine. We have bamboo growing in a contained bed where it can't escape, and when I tried to propagate it elsewhere to serve as a barrier tree, it turned out to be a lot harder to cultivate than I thought. Also, bamboo poles make excellent garden stakes and trellises, and you can place potted vine plants like cucumbers next to live bamboo to let them crawl up.
If you're considering growing bamboo, you do have to keep on top of it every year, and avoid planting it where it can spread to your neighbor's yard, but it's not that hard.
I have a good number of these plants, and none give me issues in Utah. The ones that give me trouble are Virginia Creeper, Chinese Elm, and Bind Weed.
I am currently fighting Virginia Creeper. I have no idea how it got in my yard. Stupid me thought it looked so ornamental when it grew out of a window well & up the side of the house to the roof. I knew I had a problem when it entered the lawn. I had it all torn out, but now it has appeared on the other side of the yard! My backyard neighbor so "thoughtfully" planted an aspen tree. I am always cutting down those suckers.
Yellow Woodsorrel (oxalis stricta) you know the plant with clover like leaves and has tiny yellow flowers. It is native to some parts of the US but can take over even indoors.
These types of videos are definitely what I look for. There are so many toxic plants growing here in New York State that came from far away. Now we’re struggling to get rid of them because they are so dangerous to humans and animals. Thanks so much for sharing.
So dangerous! #cmonplanta #usehuman🐂💩
1. Chinese Wisteria
2. Fishpole Bamboo
3. Winter Creeper
4. English Ivy
5. Japanese Honeysuckle Vine
6. Winged Burning Bush
7. Nandina (Sacred Bamboo)
8. Chinese Privet
9. Autumn Olive
10. Bradford Pear Tree
11. Vinca Minor
12. Japanese Barberry
13. Princess Tree
14. Sweet Autumn Clematis
15. Weeping Love Grass
16. Japanese Spirea
I bought a home and had issues with the Trumpet flower vine. Beautiful flowers, but when tried to clear out an area, it kept coming back. Tried ripping out roots, but if you even leave a little piece, it comes back
My first lesson on invasive species sold in nurseries was with morning glory.
Boy did I learn the hard way! lol
I had a neighbor who planted it on the chain link fence between our houses. He would yell at me for cutting it on my side. It grew over 4 feet a week during the growing season. I know someone else that it took over their yard and the dry riverbed they had. They have been working on removing it from their yard for years. Finally they have the upper hand. I have seen it kill trees.
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Yes ma'am, I had neighbor who moved in next door who wanted to continue to grow them in between us and I just told her that I had made a mistake and ' here enjoy theses sugar peas and Japanese winged beans, instead'. lol
Oh shit. I’m in Scotland and I’ve just planted a bunch of morning glory seeds along my fence. I want it to grow biggg to keep the nosey, unsanitary neighbours from peering over. Kinda regretting it now lol
Depends on where you live and what kind of morning glory. The annual one sold in seeds is not invasive where I live but the perennial one sold as a plant is a house eater!
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lol Nooo they are still a beautiful flower. I imagine it will look magnificent!
You should definitely make a video on "plants that should always be grown in pots" or "plants that are not for the careless gardener" 😂
I have seen creeping figs gone berserk, and snake plants, rodeos, syngoniums, Gardenias... becoming a nuisance. While they can be easily controlled and maintained wonderfully, once established it's really irritating to dig out roots to eradicate them.
They are called creeping figs for a very good reason .
Maybe I should get baby panda for my bamboo garden LOL
Imagine the amount of money it would take to keep something that big properly fed. And also adult pandas are notorious for being opportunistic and violently territorial
I want a baby panda! 🐼 (actually I just wanted to use that emoji! 😉)
The previous homeowner planted a good number of these. Endless issues. Thank you for the video!
I remember buying some blue star creeper, and the day I set it in the ground, I took it right back out. I watched a TH-cam video and there was a guy talking about how he couldn't get rid of it. Glad I looked that plant up...
I learned the hard way. Autumn clematis is a beautiful plant covered in tiny white flowers. I built an arbor over the front steps at the end of the walk to my house and planted it. It is also a prolific self seeder. I spend hours pulling it out of trees and shrubs and mowing it down in the middle of the yard including the back yard and along the side of the house. I cut down the arbor and I'm still yanking autumn clematis up all over the place. I've thrown miles of autumn clematis vines into the firepit to get rid of them. I had similar experiences with a flower known as obedient plant and lemon balm. I thought I'd never get rid of them. None of them came with a warning that they are invasive.
Those last two are hardy natives, and are really great things to plant! Theyre aggressive, but by definition certainly not invasive :)
@@joshward7009 Lemon balm is native to Europe and the middle east. Both the obedient plant and lemon balm took over huge sections of my yard and crowded out other plants before I got rid of them.
Thank you for this video! Love to see more awareness being raised about invasive plant species. Take it from me, someone whose literal job is "Invasive Plant Removal Technician" going out to Wildlife Management sites where invasive plant species have jumped from people's yards and have invaded into natural habitats. Its a fun job but it'd be a lot easier if people stopped planting these invasives in their yards where we can't treat or remove without permission. Keep up the good work!
I wish I could grow lush plants here but winters are so long and cold it won't happen. Zone 5a fierce winds and down to -40 not even counting in the wind chill. Maybe you mean in zone 7. The best plants are the natives here. It is very verdant and fertile with towering hardwoods and various evergreens
Eagles soar overhead. I'm inside a forest!
They are selling some kind of elephant ear invasive in nurseries here. I did not see them on my property when I bought it in the winter, but they started growing when it got warmer. They grow FAST and HUGE. They were clumped up in one area with bamboo where the former owners were probably trying to soak up water from the yard, but then I started finding them sprouting up in different parts of the yard and near the house. Most of them were really easy to pull up, but the large ones were stuck in the ground pretty good. It's been about a month a most, and there are a few areas where they have grown back up considerably. I plan on continuing to remove the plants until they stop growing back in. At least it's manageable now! If you let these things grow out of control they will kill everything else due to covering everything else around it from the sun. A much better solution to the water in my yard will be to follow a guide to tilling, laying mulch, laying soil, and making sure everything is graded properly and laying grass seed plus planting some native trees that do well in wet areas. It takes much longer, more effort, and more money, but killing everything with invasive species is MUCH worse in the long run! Don't plant stuff like this to avoid putting in the work. It really didn't work anyway 😕. It probably helped suck up water from one puddled area (there are a few others and it seems like they tried to plug the largest one up with water loving plants), but it did nothing to the rest of the yard. Glad the lesson was learned before anything hugely damaging occured!
Ligustrum is also a VERY intense allergen for some people when it's blooming. There was some in the yard of a house we bought, my father and I couldn't go out the back door when it was in bloom. We were both glad when Mama got it killed.
You should say what climate each of these invasive plants grow in as I have a few of these in my garden and round my property and haven't had any problems with them
What is the climate in your area and which plants?
@@mssixty3426 wisteria, barberry, winged burningbush and english ivy. I'm in N Scotland so very mild throughout the year. It's taken around 20 years for some of the ivy to climb 20foot up a tree and along a ridge line
@@HootMaRoot Many thanks for your quick response - don't know that those plants will work here in the desert, maybe in a microclimate area . . .
@@HootMaRoot I think he's talking about in the US.
@Carpe Diem Zone 9 as used here only refers to winter average low temps. No correlation to summertime highs
Interesting article
Wish I had seen it 15 years ago before I planted wisteria
There are two major types of bamboo. One is clumping and fairly well behaved. The other is spreading and a real menace. Bamboo can be quite useful as long as you get the right type.:)
Totally agree! Thanks for the info :)
Jason Bean Just put it in a large pot and then no problem for you or your NEIGHBOUR! 😱😱😱😡😤
I have a clumping variety and it still is a problem now. Grows to the 2nd story of my house yet is confined to a 8' area. Am removing it this year!!
Someone planted the wrong kind of bamboo on the Coast of B.C...they are ver invasive and grow into big trees!
Jason Bean It is a total nightmare if you live in Florida!
I live in East Texas and grow the wisteria for the hummingbirds and bees that help to pollinate my angel trumpets but I prune it every year to keep it under control. The Nandina( sacred bamboo) is very hard to get rid of we discovered that the berries were linked to hundreds of Cedar Wax Wing birds dying so we ended up digging every bush that was on the property up but also had to burn the root ball because it kept trying to grow back. I plant dozens of different plants such as the honeysuckle that I also prune every year for the bees,birds and hundreds of butterflies that visit every Spring, my 1 lantana bush is so large it stops traffic so folks can watch the display of several species of butterflies and large quantities at 1 time, it really is a sight to see. Just wanted to share that fact of the Cedar Wax Wings they visit us every year now by the hundreds I get hours of enjoyment watching them in the birdbath and just chilling at a safe place then they are gone as quick as they showed up until the next year.
Most definitely a useful video. Here in Brisbane Queensland I just spent several days physically removing the Singapore Daisy weed. Invaded from three properties away and it took over and I’d been trying for years to keep it under control to no avail. With the help of my son Nigel of Prehistoric Tank channel. Thanks for the video.
I was hoping you would mention Vinca. Several years ago I planted a vinca in a pot with flowers. It grew down from the pot and rooted in the ground next to the porch. Now it is EVERYWHERE in my front beds and it is impossible to get rid of, especially since I don't want to use chemicals. The flowers are nice though, lol.
Yes I have vinca and it grows every year !!
I planted English Ivy as a ground cover several years ago. Like this video details it also likes to climb. It looked pretty nice climbing the trees but last year I noticed a few of the trees were dropping leafs in the middle of the summer. The Ivy was literally sucking the life out of my trees. It cost me $8000 to strip the Ivy and Asian honeysuckle out of my yard. Buyers beware.
that's because English Ivy is supposed to be planted INDOOR so they won't get invasive!!! 😂🤪😆😜🤣
@@yokikokudou
Maybe it was Baltic Ivy, whatever, but I learned that it just won’t stay on the ground.
Change title to, "16 plant species to not grow outdoors." Especially seeing some of these are usually grown as houseplants lol.
Thanks for all the information. I will keep this in mind just brought a house with 3 Acres.
I had that Love Grass in my yard. I put it in 4 years ago. I tried to remove it in the second year as much as I could because it was growing in places I did not plant it. To this day, it still grows in my backyard. To this day I can find myself pulling it out of the ground by its roots.
My sister bought a house with a mature wisteria. Just when she thought she fially had it killed she found it had started growing under the siding on her house. Two stories up, under the eave, was the first bit of purple flowering coming back. It had a tree-size stump and it grew back from a root and ran under that siding
Dang.
Wow, that's a stubborn one, I have the hummingbird vine, it spreads all over, but I don't really want to kill it, the flowers are nice
Ok, convinced me. No wisteria
That's why your supposed to park it away from the house
Donnie Freymoyer
As I saw at a college campus. Mature enormous tree-size one, with its arms up in a pergola - 100 ft away from all bldgs and in the middle of a paved plaza
@fern river
Thank you for bringing up the scotch broom. No matter how hard we try to eradicate it people are still planting it. It is destroying swaths of forest. I think it should be a crime to have it in people’s property. I think the seeds last 40+ years on the ground.
It's was also a plant that was planted along freeways in WA state. Until people started to complain about it causing horrible hay fever. It cost thousands to remove.
How about some state laws that create a list of native plant species and when you plant them on your property you can write them off on your taxes. It would create a better ecosystem and would create growth in the nursery and landscaping businesses.
Oh my goodness I love this idea! I’m in Canada (east coast) but we have some of the same problems with plants on that list. An incentive is always a good idea to encourage people. Do you mind if I copy and post your idea on Facebook?
In Arizona, you get a one time rebate from Salt River Project ( the local power and water company) if you plant heat and drought tolerant plants in 75% of your yard and have a conserving drip system. It's not exactly the same, but encourages mindful growing. Most of these invasives are also water hogs, so if someone can get them to live inn the desert, that person is also using an extraordinary amount of water.
In my area (Pacific North West), you can add Broom, Blackberry, Japanese Knot Weed, and Morning Glory. The last item we'll never be able to get rid of on our island...I call it strangle weed because it just strangles everything (including Blackberry, lol). At least the Blackberries taste amazing, but wow are they hard to control.
Good list! We bought a house a couple of years ago and it turns out about half of this list is currently planted in our yard. Wonderful!
I've got english ivy growing along my fence, nandina in my front yard, chinese privets in my back yard, three euonymus bushes in my garden area, and a barberry bush growing right next to those.
At least for the privets I've started digging them up for bonsai. They were growing next to my fence and were messing it up so they had to go!
So good to know. My daughter and I are starting to fill in a new home where we live. I was considering one or two of these! Now I know to avoid!!! YES!!!! Keep these videos up! I am new to your channel and love it! 🌻🌼🌱🌿🌳💖
I have vinca in my yard and I absolutely love it since I live on the edge of the woods and it keeps a lot of prickers from growing, and it is one of the first things the pollinators go to in the spring. Although I can see why it's bad...
Morning glory is the cockroach of flowing vines.
Singapore daisy and thunbergia are two to watch out for in QLD.
Poison ivy
Whaaaaaaaat????? Why?????
@@leesa9615 because you can't kill it off
@@TAPriceCTR I hope so I wanna make a huge living wall
I've tried to stay native. I've recently just transplanted a White Oak sappling to the middle of my backyard. The old occupants have put two Rose of Sharon trees out, but they're so slow growing. I'm terrible at identifying invasive plants, but I love to watch it all grow, and discovering new plants - even all the different weeds that grow in the different times of the warmer seasons. This year, I've been getting a succulent like plant taking over my flower and garden beds. Hard to keep up with.
I work in Bushland Regeneration in Australia which involves mostly weed eradication and natural re introducing native species. Every time I go to a nursery the urge to spray Glyphosate mix is high.
Thanks for doing this it is a bigger help than you realise
Great job👍
This is a brilliant video, thank you so much.
Thank you!
Hi, thank you for sharing. I live in Minnesota, and one of my nightmares is creeping Charlie. We have lived in the same house for 25 years, and this has only become a problem in the last 5 years or so. It has made its way all the way up to my hostas, and the grass in front of them. Is there any suggestions that you know of to eliminate this. I spend about a month each spring weeding and it comes back even if I get the roots. Thanks so much for all your knowledge about inside and outdoor plants.
Borax mixed in water kills creeping charlie but you have to spray at the right time with the right mixture & you may have to spray if a couple times each year for 2-3 years to eradicate it.
The previous owners of my house planted bamboo on one side of the lawn and now it’s a nightmare to keep up with the new shoots coming up everywhere... I don’t know how to get rid of it without digging up the whole lawn!
Some people (like me) have a small container garden. If I plant wisteria (which I just did) it can't really go anywhere except where I want it to go on the small structure I have on my roof. I also plan to grow bamboo this year. It aint going anywhere beyond its container. So for people like me, these plants are fine and I am glad that I have Garden centers that sell them.
Japanese barberry also encourages tick population. Studies showed that areas that had the plant removed reduced the tick population by more than 50%.
you can have wysteria if you are responsible. My in laws have two and they keep it trimmed to where it grows like a tree. It is absolutely beautiful.
Sarah Robertson A neighboring property that is not maintained has the mother of a wisteria and that damn thing has invaded everything in its path, went underground 300’ to kill s huge ash tree on my property that I purchased. It has covered every tree on that property and the feeder roots have crawled onto this property and trees. I have fought for two years and cannot get ahead of it!
@@vden02 wow, I had no idea they could do that.
My grandparents front porch had wisteria growing all around the edge of the roof. Birds built nests in it. Lots of great childhood memories
I had one seed baring mature plant on a 150 year old farm in NE Kansas. It was beautiful!
It was the only one on the place. This guy has an agenda.
There is a native species of wisteria that is not invasive. It is wisteria frutescens.
Did you mention trumpet flower ?
I baught 2 several years ago and o man. Took over everything
Drops seeds all over grows underground and pops up many feet away....hummingbird and bees love it but there really is no controlling it
Alice you are so right with that trumpet flower/vine! My brother in law insisted I take a cutting from him. It took me two years to remove that invasive sucker!!!!!!!!
@@cpnotill9264 lol I know it I'm still battling it any tips on how to get rid of it?
@@alicemilling3706 Everytime I saw it come up I would yank it out! I was on patrol for the new shoots and I won! That's about all I can say is what experience I had with it. You might be able to put plastic over it? I think it would just keep growing under it until it found daylight though! OMG Alice I feel your pain! 😁👍🌱💪💖
@@cpnotill9264 thank you😣😀👍
@@alicemilling3706 Alice is on patrol for sprouts! 👍🌱
Yeh, that is why they call periwinkle a ground cover!
Love it! Love it! Love it!
I don't know where you live but in part of the U.S., at least, it's invasive. Look up phlox. It's native to part of U.S and some species are also good for ground cover.
@@songmakerdragon2393 I tried phlox and it won't grow in SE Texas. At least not in my area at the Gulf Coast. I think it is beautiful and would love to have it in my yard. Maybe you now why it won't take here. We get a fair amount of rain and of course the gulf breezes which probably carry salt. I do have Vica Major (large leafed periwinkle) and it stays pretty self contained. What spreads pretty bad is the Asiatic Jasmine. The vines are real touch and hard to break and they root as they travel. But I keep mine under control with the weed eater. I hit the border every week making sure to cut into the ground as I go, getting all the vines. The lawn mower keeps any vines, shooting for the lawn, at bay. The Vinca is mixed in with the Jasmine and it is really beautiful when the Vinca stems arch up and over the Jasmine. I have had both in the ground for 10 years and it has not gotten out of hand. I learned that you just have to be aggressive in dealing with it. Gardening takes a lot of work and you have to stay on top of it. A lot of people get tired of dealing with the garden and stop tending to it. This is when a lot of problems happen. I love gardening -- it is my exercise and my therapy. When I get too old to tend to it, I will rip everything out and probably hire some company to just come in, strip the beds, and cover them with heavy mulch and rocks.
@@reesaserik3759 There are a few different species of phlox. Do you know which species you tried?
@@songmakerdragon2393 honestly, I do not know the species. They do not sell phlox in the garden centers in my area, (South East Texas, on the Gulf Coast). Or, I should say, the times I have gone to garden centers I did not see them. They may have been sold out already. So I had to purchase on line, and I purchased those listed as zone 9a -- which is my zone. I just could not get them to grow. I have purchased many difference species of plants on-line and have had great success -- so I know it is not that. All the bulbs do great and I have had great success with day-lilies, ornamental grasses, shrubs and trees. Just can not get the phlox to survive. Oh well, you can not win them all. But I envy those that get to grow Phlox, I think they are absolutely beautiful. Thank you for your interest. I hope you garden and have great success at it!
I've got two of these in my landscape and wisteria on my neighbor's property. The wisteria sends out ground shoots and climbs trees to roof level. Insidious plant!
I planted English Ivy along the border of my back porch covered patio. I used hog wire and twine to build a grid for the Ivy to grow up. In three years I have a living greenwall blocking the harsh sun, giving privacy from neighbors and birds love to fly through it. At this point it’s trying to spread on the ground so I just pick them up and thread through existing green wall ( 2021 polar vortex did damage it some ). I also just check to make sure it’s not growing up the brick. It pulls off easy when just a few feet long and I weave it back into green Ivy wall. It’s easy. A fun garden chore that doesn’t take long. If I lost interest I’d dig it out. I wouldn’t let it go nuts.