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.
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
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.
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.
@@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?
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.
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!💚💚💚
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
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.
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.
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
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!
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.
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.
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!
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 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...
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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 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.
@@KharisWorks 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
We had vinca covering the side of the hill when we moved in. It was so thick there were mice and rats living in it . We ripped it out and sprayed it. Every spring it comes back after the winter rains. The more it rains the more we get...It's been 8 years.
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.
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 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
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.
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.
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.
@@alicemilling3706 it gets worse. I have these little strawberry looking plants everywhere also. They came from the neighbors yard. Thing is, I'm the one who took her to the nursery when she bought this little plant. She's been deceased for several years, but I'll never forget her
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.
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'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 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 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 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.
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.
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 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. 😃
The Bradford Pears are so pretty in the spring, but our agricultural extension instructor also warned us not to plant them. We have frequent ice storms. The Bradford Pears don't go through these storms intact. They usually lose multiple branches and look ugly afterwards. So, the word among horticulturists in Oklahoma is, " Friends don't let friends plant Bradford Pears".
Vinca makes a great ground cover under trees and shrubs. It spreads by runners, seldom by seeds. The key is making sure you have borders around it on all four sides where it is growing - and keep it edged.
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!
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.
I'm a little late to the game here, but the builder of my housing tract put Nandina in my garden as part of their landscaping. I've always hated it. Now I know why!
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.
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
Totally understand this. I forgot the name of the plant but around my area, it totally wiped out cattails. For a wet land area i really miss the cattails.
Very glad to find this video by accident. I do have a few Nandinas given by a friend, planted a few months ago. Recently I read about it and realized they can spread wildly. Now you confirm I should just dig them out, maybe put them in containers. Thanks.
@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.
Not long after we got married, my husband informed me that English Ivy was grounds for divorce. That was 28 years ago and when we moved 15+ years ago, I wouldn't even look at a home to buy that had it in the yard :)
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.:)
Agreed. I bought seeds but will be growing indoors only since I use the berries for cooking. But indoors only. It was banned in lots of places because of its invasive nature.
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
We had (and still have) so much Ivy in our yard. When we bought the property I got rid of a lot and freed a 120 year old tree from it. Then another invasive species sprung up. They are under control now. We still have lots of square meters covered with Ivy (it's a big property) but I like the Ivy on the outside fences. It stays green and because it's well over 10 years old (probably 50 ) it blooms in autumn giving the last nourishment to lots of insects. I read that when you propagate from a blooming Ivy the offshoot blooms faster. I may try that. So Ivy is not all bad and it belongs in northern Germany. I do always laugh when I see tiny Ivy plants at nurseries. Anyone that wants some can have it for free when they swing by my house.
Yes I battled morning glory that my neighbor planted on our chain link fence. It grew 9 inches a day during growing season. It took over the 60 ft of fence from 1 plant. That was with me constantly cutting it or pulling it out. Then my neighbor would start yelling at me to stop cutting it. It grew about 4 ft a week. Not 4 feet a month or year but every week. I tried explaining that It was invasive and best grown in a pot where he could take care of it and I didn't have to. It was awful. I moved.
I’m so my mom has a brown thumb. She used to sprinkle the seeds all over our yard but the vines never managed to grow much longer than 2ft, and shriveled up after a few weeks
Morning glory is okay in places where you have to work to keep it happy, like by watering it regularly. My parents’ morning glories have slowly faded out of existence. The native bindweed is much harder to get rid of.
Depends on where you live, I think. I had perfectly under control morning glories and moon whites in New England. Died off and needed replanting yearly. Never left my trellis. The same plants in the Carolinas.. they tried to eat my house. They actually pulled the railings on my porch out. We dug them up. They came back. Every single spring, for over a decade. Breaks my heart because I still think they are beautiful.
On the up side Wisteria are very slow growing compared to other vines and don't grow in a strangling pattern, so it's more so their added weight that can become a problem. There's a trail in a wildlife management area near me that has a lot of them, but they are more draped between trees and have formed sturdy bases that help hold them up, so they aren't too bad. The worst tree killers seem to be Kudzu, poison Ivy, and English Ivy, in that order.
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.
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.
as a note: there is an american NATIVE honeysuckle: please do plant that! many of these invasives have native plants that can give you the same "advantages" (bright red fall color, pretty blooms, etc) without being invasive.
Definitely an important and informative topic. So crucial to be aware of what you’re growing. Goutweed, coltsfoot and creeping Jenny are horribly invasive in my area. I’ll restrict creeping Jenny to containers where they create a great spiller but the other 2 are most unwelcome in my garden.
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!
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.
I would advise talking to a landcare group in your local area. They will tell you what to avoid (because they’re currently out there trying to eradicate it in the environment) what will need to live out it’s life under supervision in a pot or what incredible native you can substitute that could be a wildlife supporting plant as well :). A couple worth mentioning in a tropical environment/Australia I would advise against: * Mother of millions - Kalanchoe daigremontiana * Singapore daisy - Sphagneticola trilobata * Arrow head vine - Syngonium podophyllum * Altnatheria - Alternanthera dentata 'Rubra' * Mother in laws tounge. Sansevieria - Dracaena trifasciata * Yes fishpole bamboo/golden bamboo - Phyllostachys aurea * And RUN a million miles if you ever see Common Water Hyacinth - Pontederia crassipes. It’s illegal to sell in most countries.
Must be too dry here. I was going to dig up some of the shoots and plant them around the farm but I’d better not. Instead I’ll go cut down more autumn olive trees.
@@maryellenrose4812 I love Rose of Sharon. Was just going to buy some for the yard in Raleigh North Carolina. I guess I need to do a lot of research as I am not from this area
Songbird For Jesus yes please do do your own research, this guy seems to have no practical application. In eastern Ks, I’ve grown every one of the listed culprits into beautiful specimens. You plant what makes you happy. This guy is ignorant or just plain lazy.
"Invasive" doesn't refer to your garden; it refers to the fact that these plants will escape from your garden and wreak havoc in the natural environment. Several of the plants he mentions (euonymus, (both types he mentioned, vine and shrub), clematis, honeysuckle (2 types, shrub and vine) are destroying the woods in my neighborhood in southern Illinois. The vining euonymus even destroys lawns, making it absolutely essential to use herbicides.
Hi ooohh no. Spearmint took over my whole gsrden. I thought it would be nice for the smell. Pretty leaves. It was awful. 3 years and I'm still pulling out and i had it dug out 3 feet deep. I started with one small piece. I'm afraid if i don't get it out every day it will take over again. Good gardening to you!! 😊
I just found out from a neighbor I was invaded by a Japanese plant as well all the way from a one long block distance. It was getting thicker every year. Finally, he sprayed it dead and gone. It was a fast growing monsterous plant 12 feet tall with huge leaves and under-soil shoots.
Morning Glory is my nemesis. I've been pulling it out of my garden for over three years. I use vinca in flower beds because of it's draught tolerance. Been trying to get it to spread because I heard it is a ground cover. It died in the winter and I had to buy more and replant.
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!
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! 👍
We have a pile of wood logs that have some of those ivy on them. They were all completely dried up and crumble when touched. However, now that its spring, those suckers started turning green out of nowhere. I understand that many vines and other plants can come back from being dormant thru the winter etc. But these things were chopped up with the wood and extremely dry and brittle. They crumbled apart when i went to remove them.. So i didnt think they had any chance.lol
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
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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Right? You say “invasive” I hear “hard to call”.
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
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.
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.
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’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.
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.
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
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 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 !
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 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
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.
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.
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.
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?
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 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...
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
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!
our state has a program where they trade you a Dogwood sapling for a picture of you with a cut down Callary Pear :)
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 .
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 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.
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 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.
@@KharisWorks 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.
@@KharisWorks Most grass that the general public plants is a weed. You just have to learn about, then get, something native to plant.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
We had vinca covering the side of the hill when we moved in. It was so thick there were mice and rats living in it . We ripped it out and sprayed it. Every spring it comes back after the winter rains. The more it rains the more we get...It's been 8 years.
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.
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! 😉)
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
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.
My aunt had bamboo in her yard in California that someone else planted. She said you could literally hear it grow at night!
Interesting article
Wish I had seen it 15 years ago before I planted wisteria
Change title to, "16 plant species to not grow outdoors." Especially seeing some of these are usually grown as houseplants lol.
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.
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.
Thanks for posting this information. More awareness is badly needed to stop sale a propogation of invasives!
Lily of the Valley will invade your and all of your neighbors' properties. So will Rose of Sharon
Rose of sharon o m g ..you are not kidding they reseed and pop up all over had those too
@@alicemilling3706 I have them coming up in the middle of my rose bushes, in my vegetable beds, and they came from my neighbor's yard
@@marthajf73 I feel your pain I too have them all over 😣
@@alicemilling3706 it gets worse. I have these little strawberry looking plants everywhere also. They came from the neighbors yard. Thing is, I'm the one who took her to the nursery when she bought this little plant. She's been deceased for several years, but I'll never forget her
Lily of the valley. I have it everywhere. EVERYWHERE!!
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!
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.
Please do more of this type of video educating us of things we need to know. Thank you for your diligence. 🦋
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!
Invasive depends highly on area youre in and what part of the world your in so specifying where its invasive is really helpful
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.
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 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.
I used to live in Charleston, SC and wisteria is everywhere. It grows and covers as much as kudzu.
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
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 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.
Susan Ravan
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
The Bradford Pears are so pretty in the spring, but our agricultural extension instructor also warned us not to plant them.
We have frequent ice storms. The Bradford Pears don't go through these storms intact. They usually lose multiple branches and look ugly afterwards.
So, the word among horticulturists in Oklahoma is, " Friends don't let friends plant Bradford Pears".
Vinca makes a great ground cover under trees and shrubs. It spreads by runners, seldom by seeds. The key is making sure you have borders around it on all four sides where it is growing - and keep it edged.
Vinca is invasive, it has grown into my garden from next door by way of underground runners and spread over my rose bed.
not recommended.
My ex girlfriend only bought invasive plants she's been gone 10 years and I'm still trying to get rid of them.
She didnt want you to forget her.
Same exact thing happened to me. So I'm gay now.
@@sharksport01 I'm not gay, but good for you.
Ah, the octopus tentacles of memory...
Mike worse than a tattoo lol
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!
Ughh, Bradford Pear, my nemesis. Just looking at one makes my eyes itchy and my nose burn🤪
we have them all throughout part of our neighborhood and they’re slowly dying from some disease 😈
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.
Really need more information on how to get rid of some if these plant.
I'm a little late to the game here, but the builder of my housing tract put Nandina in my garden as part of their landscaping. I've always hated it. Now I know why!
I really like this however,an extreme closeup picture of the flowers/leaves would really be helpful.
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.
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
Totally understand this. I forgot the name of the plant but around my area, it totally wiped out cattails. For a wet land area i really miss the cattails.
Probably phragmites.
Very glad to find this video by accident. I do have a few Nandinas given by a friend, planted a few months ago. Recently I read about it and realized they can spread wildly. Now you confirm I should just dig them out, maybe put them in containers. Thanks.
@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.
Not long after we got married, my husband informed me that English Ivy was grounds for divorce. That was 28 years ago and when we moved 15+ years ago, I wouldn't even look at a home to buy that had it in the yard :)
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!
Re: barberry - studies are finding that woodland rodents, who are intermediary hosts for Lyme Disease, find refuge in barberry thickets.
Agreed. I bought seeds but will be growing indoors only since I use the berries for cooking. But indoors only. It was banned in lots of places because of its invasive nature.
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
Wttttfffff I have more than have of these growing in my backyard 🤦🏻♂️😂
We had (and still have) so much Ivy in our yard. When we bought the property I got rid of a lot and freed a 120 year old tree from it. Then another invasive species sprung up. They are under control now.
We still have lots of square meters covered with Ivy (it's a big property) but I like the Ivy on the outside fences. It stays green and because it's well over 10 years old (probably 50 ) it blooms in autumn giving the last nourishment to lots of insects. I read that when you propagate from a blooming Ivy the offshoot blooms faster. I may try that.
So Ivy is not all bad and it belongs in northern Germany.
I do always laugh when I see tiny Ivy plants at nurseries. Anyone that wants some can have it for free when they swing by my house.
Morning Glory. The gorgeous flower on the vine from hell.
yes yes yes !!!!!!!
Yes I battled morning glory that my neighbor planted on our chain link fence. It grew 9 inches a day during growing season. It took over the 60 ft of fence from 1 plant. That was with me constantly cutting it or pulling it out. Then my neighbor would start yelling at me to stop cutting it. It grew about 4 ft a week. Not 4 feet a month or year but every week. I tried explaining that It was invasive and best grown in a pot where he could take care of it and I didn't have to. It was awful. I moved.
I’m so my mom has a brown thumb. She used to sprinkle the seeds all over our yard but the vines never managed to grow much longer than 2ft, and shriveled up after a few weeks
Morning glory is okay in places where you have to work to keep it happy, like by watering it regularly. My parents’ morning glories have slowly faded out of existence.
The native bindweed is much harder to get rid of.
Depends on where you live, I think. I had perfectly under control morning glories and moon whites in New England. Died off and needed replanting yearly. Never left my trellis.
The same plants in the Carolinas.. they tried to eat my house. They actually pulled the railings on my porch out. We dug them up. They came back. Every single spring, for over a decade. Breaks my heart because I still think they are beautiful.
I think this is a helpful video for those without freezing temps to kill and slow plants down.
On the up side Wisteria are very slow growing compared to other vines and don't grow in a strangling pattern, so it's more so their added weight that can become a problem. There's a trail in a wildlife management area near me that has a lot of them, but they are more draped between trees and have formed sturdy bases that help hold them up, so they aren't too bad. The worst tree killers seem to be Kudzu, poison Ivy, and English Ivy, in that order.
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
This is a brilliant video, thank you so much.
Thank you!
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.
as a note: there is an american NATIVE honeysuckle: please do plant that!
many of these invasives have native plants that can give you the same "advantages" (bright red fall color, pretty blooms, etc) without being invasive.
Definitely an important and informative topic. So crucial to be aware of what you’re growing. Goutweed, coltsfoot and creeping Jenny are horribly invasive in my area. I’ll restrict creeping Jenny to containers where they create a great spiller but the other 2 are most unwelcome in my garden.
Thanks. You just saved 1 of my incredible treesfrom Winter Creeper.😅
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!
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.
Useful and well documented. Not only for the plants, but for the way of thinking of the possible results of our passion for nice plants !
I would advise talking to a landcare group in your local area. They will tell you what to avoid (because they’re currently out there trying to eradicate it in the environment) what will need to live out it’s life under supervision in a pot or what incredible native you can substitute that could be a wildlife supporting plant as well :).
A couple worth mentioning in a tropical environment/Australia I would advise against:
* Mother of millions - Kalanchoe daigremontiana
* Singapore daisy - Sphagneticola trilobata
* Arrow head vine - Syngonium podophyllum
* Altnatheria - Alternanthera dentata 'Rubra'
* Mother in laws tounge. Sansevieria - Dracaena trifasciata
* Yes fishpole bamboo/golden bamboo - Phyllostachys aurea
* And RUN a million miles if you ever see Common Water Hyacinth - Pontederia crassipes. It’s illegal to sell in most countries.
I'm surprised you didn't include rose of Sharon and morning Glory.
Joshua Knoebel we have two huge rose of Sharon bushes. They have suckers but don’t seem to reseed. We live in eastern Kansas.
In Northeast Ohio they spread like wildfire.
Must be too dry here. I was going to dig up some of the shoots and plant them around the farm but I’d better not. Instead I’ll go cut down more autumn olive trees.
@@maryellenrose4812 I love Rose of Sharon. Was just going to buy some for the yard in Raleigh North Carolina. I guess I need to do a lot of research as I am not from this area
Songbird For Jesus yes please do do your own research, this guy seems to have no practical application.
In eastern Ks, I’ve grown every one of the listed culprits into beautiful specimens.
You plant what makes you happy. This guy is ignorant or just plain lazy.
Isn’t this partially why you prune and maintain them? So you can enjoy the plant without having it take over.
I guess the concern is that they will seed themselves into nature around where you live and kill the natural flora and fauna.
"Invasive" doesn't refer to your garden; it refers to the fact that these plants will escape from your garden and wreak havoc in the natural environment. Several of the plants he mentions (euonymus, (both types he mentioned, vine and shrub), clematis, honeysuckle (2 types, shrub and vine) are destroying the woods in my neighborhood in southern Illinois. The vining euonymus even destroys lawns, making it absolutely essential to use herbicides.
Hi ooohh no. Spearmint took over my whole gsrden. I thought it would be nice for the smell. Pretty leaves. It was awful. 3 years and I'm still pulling out and i had it dug out 3 feet deep. I started with one small piece. I'm afraid if i don't get it out every day it will take over again. Good gardening to you!! 😊
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
Hey, I thought this was a great help! Thank you for the advice. I fully expected to hear the name of one of my seedlings, I'm glad to say in the clear
I just found out from a neighbor I was invaded by a Japanese plant as well all the way from a one long block distance. It was getting thicker every year. Finally, he sprayed it dead and gone. It was a fast growing monsterous plant 12 feet tall with huge leaves and under-soil shoots.
that moment when you realize you're growing half of this list...
Morning Glory is my nemesis. I've been pulling it out of my garden for over three years.
I use vinca in flower beds because of it's draught tolerance. Been trying to get it to spread because I heard it is a ground cover. It died in the winter and I had to buy more and replant.
I watched this video expecting to see Morning Glory. I started one this spring and after learning about it, am afraid to let it leave her planter.
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!
@@dewality8768
lol Nooo they are still a beautiful flower. I imagine it will look magnificent!
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! 👍
We have a pile of wood logs that have some of those ivy on them. They were all completely dried up and crumble when touched. However, now that its spring, those suckers started turning green out of nowhere. I understand that many vines and other plants can come back from being dormant thru the winter etc. But these things were chopped up with the wood and extremely dry and brittle. They crumbled apart when i went to remove them.. So i didnt think they had any chance.lol