Don’t Plant These 5 Things!
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- Опубликовано: 3 авг 2024
- I promise you may thank me for this someday! Here is my list of 5 things I think you should NEVER plant (unless you are a zookeeper!) avoid wisteria, Virginia creeper, trumpet vine, bamboo, and anything in your geography and or climate that you know to be invasive, and/or danger to natives.
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My elderly neighbors planted trumpet vines to attract hummingbirds. The neighbors long ago shuffled off their mortal coils and left me to engage in a never ending battle with the trumpet vines. The neighbors were sweet and adorable, but their legacy is a royal pain in the posterior.
"...their legacy is a royal pain in the posterior" Hahahaha!
My trumpet vine appears to have been a "gift" from a malicious neighbor (seriously!). Its only redeeming quality is that it does attract hummingbirds.
@@dmc826 I have a neighbor that was "gifted" Creeping Charlie. She was sold by the cute little funnel shaped purple flowers.
Not the hummingbird vine with a small red flower ?
My neighbor has trumpet vine on the other side of the privacy fence. It grows through the fence, over the fence, seeds all over my yard, I hate that sucker and spend a good amount of time trimming it off my side of the fence and pulling up new plants in the yard.
You’re so right. My sister asked my Dad years ago how to get rid of English Ivy. He said “Move” 😉🤣
As an author of a book on Hedera, all this Hederaphobia is unjustified and scientific literature on invasiveness only applies to two basic species in their wild form, H. helix and H. hibernica - not to the hundreds of non-invasive, slow, self-branching, compact clones. Not one of the Exotic Angel stuff like you see at Home Depot could ever spread far or take over - genetically and morphologically impossible. The houseplant type material is never invasive and I have had plants 10 years old that were just 2-3 feet across. If you want beautiful variegated and cutleaf ivies one can always plant them against a tree and trim off anything going horizontal into beds.
I literally laughed out loud.
Oh, that is hilarious! English Ivy is one of my nemeses as well; even when it was somewhat in control, it was prone to black spot and aphids...which then created an ant problem. So we moved, 😉.
Yeah ... I can't get rid of my neighbor's English ivy, lilies of the valley, burning bush, thorn berries, and nightshade that all snuck into our yard. Who pays to get any of these?
As for bamboo, if it's planted in a deep pot as an accent, that can work. I do the same with raspberries. In a raised bed lined with 10mil plastic sheets.
Love it!
I love wisteria. The way it trails across my entrance, lavender drooping heavenly scented flowers. Beautiful, exotic, fragrant...and invasive quick growing. it started slow the first year, then within 3 it demolished my beautiful front porch. Ripped the latice apart, tore the brace beams out, and cut as I may, it still keeps winding its destruction. Oh, and did I mention, it attracts bees to my front door? I am badly allergic to bees. 😭
Reality intrudes on my visions. 😒
I wanted bamboo as a privacy screen, but my Mom said I would be sorry, I'm glad I listened to her for once.
That’s a myth research “clumping bamboo” it’s non evasive n only grows in a 6ft radius
@@taskforce505 I was going to say the same thing! There are various types of bamboo and some of them are the clumping type.
I think that there is a beautiful black stemmed variety, Nigra (?), that is much less of a problem ...
@@taskforce505 I bought a bamboo that's supposed to be clumping but after a few years it started spreading. I controlled by trenching around it and adding a 4 ft barrier but it could still grow thru gaps. It can be controlled by digging for stragglers every year. It's a good workout. Also need a heavy duty spade.
MY mother in law hates bamboo. She fought it for years ! I tried to get her to plant some leeland cyprys trees
to combat it. She said no those were way too big. I love the huge trees. She suffered with that bamboo
late in her life. It worried the crap out of her.
1. Bamboo! 2. Wisteria. 3. Virginia Creeper. 4. Trumpet Vine. 5. Your local no-no.
Exactly!
Thank you Susan B !
Gee, planted all four. Going to do some digging this next spring!
My neighbour has a trumpet vine it’s 45 years old very well behaved plant
Bamboo, plant it in a galvanized tub ($20 at the hardware store). then you can move it, and it can’t invade.
"And I don't advocate using nuclear devises in the garden, in general" Absolutely love your sense of humor!
I'm in Victoria Australia wisteria is beautiful and can be controlled. A neighbour had hers growing as a 'tree'. This was achieved by using a stake that supported the trunk and allowed the top to umbrella. Took a lot of pruning but truly a beautiful effect.
My late wife loved wisteria and controlled it.
I was at Lowe’s this week and a young couple was buying rosemary plants. Lots of them. About 20 plants. I asked them what they ere going to do with all that rosemary. “We just love to cook with rosemary. I just love it!” I suggested that the might not need that many plants and to put the in a large pot. I told them i have one I have had for at least 15 years and it is huge. They declined my suggestion and said the needed that many. I reminded myself of how many times I have gone my own way in the garden. And maybe one day I will be able to keep my suggestions to myself!!! 😜
Let them learn the hard way, I suppose.
Ignorance is bliss...unfortunately. Never know, someone will listen one day so keeping informing ppl. I do :)
Oklancie Laen 😂
Wow that certainly is a lot of rosemary 😂 I’m sure they will regret not taking your advice!
Tiramisu Mochi 😂
At my old house I had a wisteria, but I trained it into a tree. Looked like an umbrella. I kept it pruned and had zero issues. At this house, however the neighbors untended wisteria is constantly trying to take over our split-rail fence so my husband prunes it.
Still Mandeville. I love wisteria too, but it's not the idea of having one in a pot. Wisteria seeds are dispersed throughout forests and competes and overgrows over trees, killing them. Forsythe Wildlife Natural Area in New Jersey is where I was convinced that it truly is an invasive.
I have a terrible terrible problem with wisteria! It came over from a neighbor's yard and has now killed a group of Leyland cypress trees and it's threatening to keep going down the line. I cannot kill it. It comes up from the ground and it travels over in the tree crown.
Really love it though!
I have wisteria it behaves itself, dry climate poor soil
Good to know! Is a lovely plant
Linda's advice is so accurate, I am a professional gardener and I earn a lot of money removing out of control bamboo and secondly ivy. This ladies advice is well worth taking on board.
I disagree strongly on the bamboo one, bamboo is a wonderplant that has been shown to
be a carbon sponge 'Bamboo’s fast-growing and renewable stands sequester carbon in their biomass - at rates comparable, or even superior to, a number of tree species. The many durable products made from bamboo can also be potentially carbon-negative, because they act as locked-in carbon sinks in themselves and encourage the expansion and improved management of bamboo forests.'
Mh-hm. When I moved in to my house the previous owner thought it was a "wonderful" idea to plant bamboo in the back yard. I researched it and sure enough found out that it was a take over plant. And I left it for a bit and sure enough it was growing outward. So I took on the tedious job over the next few months of digging it up, and anytime it shot up I would dig into the root system and have to put root killer. They had also planted a couple trees next to the house, how where they not worried about the root system bothering the foundation! Well it took me a couple of years and about a thousand dollars but I was able to remove all the unpleasant plants and trees. I did whatever I could by myself, the rest I had to pay to take out.
@@hihosh1 anyone with neighbors needs to put in a rhizome barrier before planting bamboo. It's the gift that keeps on giving.
What is you secret to removing English ivy? I am doing battle w 30% vinegar, and seems to be making a little headway. I strongly prefer natural solutions. Any ideas? Thanks in advance.
@@hihosh1 That doesn't mean it makes a good garden plant, especially if you have neighbors.
I have English ivy, trumpet vine, wisteria and ruellia that people are all against and I don't personally have a problem with them. We keep them trimmed back responsibly and that makes all the difference. Your garden is lovely.
Agreed. I grew up along the Little Calumet River in Chicago. My parents also had a lovely garden like this lady's. As I got older, I added vegetables and other flowers. The yard was lovingly tended; trees included Maple, Bur Oak, Cottonwood, Honeylocust, Spruce, Elm, Willow, Birch, Plum, Cherry and Ash. Vines included Wild Grape and Virginia Creeper. They had no "pests" to speak of, though the Willows had aphids, and we would never put any of our plants on a "don't plant" list, unless one had a very small property.
Your garden is a dream!
Yes indeed, just beautiful.
Perhaps a little Labour intensive.
It's a dream, but taking care of all that must be a full-time job.
I'm so sorry! I forgot to mention what the little forest was! It's bamboo! I'm the comment from San Francisco. And its truly stunning.
I would suggests adding rose of sharon to the Black List of plants. It seeds itself very efficiently. We had some coming up in the privet hedge at our old house, and we could never get rid of it permanently. More grew back every season. The roots are impossible to pull out. It needs to be dug out (very difficult if you are trying to not damage the plants growing around it ). Also, Bradford pear trees (and any sort of ornamental pear tree that is a hybrid of a pear tree native to Asia) are very invasive in suburban neighborhoods here in eastern PA. The birds spread the seed to the point that fallow farm field can be taken over by these invasive pear trees within three years.
You should have mentioned that there are two different types of bamboo! The clumping bamboo is fine to plant in gardens.
Running bamboo is the type you should stay away from as it is very invasive! 🌿
She should also have mentioned there are ways to contain bamboo from spreading underground. e.g. copper barriers. bamboo hates copper and will stay away from it.
I love that...not a bad plant, just the bad usage of a plant. 😊😊👏🏼👏🏼
Totally agree about the trumpet vine. If you have trumpet vine, keep it away from the house. I've seen it take root and grow in cracks of an old Victorian house.
Omg! Bought a house that had a wisteria and after 20 years, I took it out. So much work with little reward. To keep under control, I was pruning every week and consequently, removing buds in the process. Removing roots is a nightmare. Felt bad while removing it, but after two weeks, I am ecstatic it is gone, just wish I had done it 19 years ago!
"I dont advocate using nuclear devices in the garden". I love this lady already. Subscribed.
I bought a house with the bamboo, Virginia creeper, and trumpet vine growing vigorously in my back yard. It's been 4 years of trying to get the bamboo under control. The Virginia creeper is like you said more easily controlled. I cut back the trumpet vine to 1 stalk and will be trying to train and control it. I wish people would think before they plant something because they like the look of it.
A tip for bamboo if you're opposed to herbicide (my personal recommendation) is to hack the bamboo shoots down, wait for them to shoot again (they can go from stump to full height in a matter of days) and then take off all the vertical growth just as it puts out the horizontal leaf stalks. This process must be repeated over and over until it eventually runs out of energy stores in the root and dies, you've basically got to stop it going into leaf because those leaves feed the root and recoup the energy lost by shooting. It's a pretty arduous task hence why I recommend herbicide as a primary means of control
My neighbors grow dill in their backyard. This spring I spotted a group of them growing in the oddest location of my yard. I yanked them out root and all. Month later I noticed another group of dill growing opposite end of the first group spotted. This time I embraced it. We are grilling more fish this summer. Que sera sera.
🤣
So many herbs strongly evince childhood memories forme...good ones. Many I don't even use for cooking. But I cherish the aromas.
I've tried for years to grow just a bit of dill. Never successfully! Shouldn't be so hard. I live near NYC. What could I be doing wrong?
I am so jealous. It’s hard to grow here in my garden & 1 of my top 5 herbs. Fennel grows like a weed here - but dill - a struggle.
@@claudiaphilippe5655 You can just toss the seeds around now in a sunny area of soil that you will not disturb.
They don't need any attention at all. Then in the spring, sprinkle some more. If you sprinkle some seeds every month during the warmer months, you'll have dill from spring to freeze up.
All of these 'weeds' will do their thing without much or any assistance from us.
Then let a couple of plants grow to maturity. They produce huge amounts of seeds and you will
never be dill-free.
@@claudiaphilippe5655 You're trying too hard. Through the seeds in the yard and wait.
I live in San Francisco. The guy next door has a little forest of it in his small yard with pink/purple bouginvilla, mixed in. It is absolutely gorgeous!!!!!! When the sun is rising and setting, the colors are STUNNING!!!!! 😉😉💖💜💕But he does have to have someone come in and thin it.
Bougainvillea, even though it can become GINORMOUS, at least it can take a good hard trimming every year to keep control over it. I once lived in a house where a previous owner planted bougainvillea in a 2.5' deep strip of dirt between the driveway and house. We could not use the driveway after mid June. That winter, we had a hard frost and it really burnt the plant. So, late winter, I pruned it down to 18" tall. The neighbors came over and yelled at me and told me I was killing the plant they waited to see bloom every spring. I told them about how badly it had been frost burnt and how I fully intended to use my driveway now. I also said I thought it would be fine considering it can grow upwards of a foot a week in the summer. Well, come spring and after the plant had grown to about 4' tall, they came over saying I had ruined the plant as it had no blooms that year. I suggested they be more patient as the blooms come on the tips of the shoots and the shoots had to be a certain age before they would bloom. Sure enough, in another couple of weeks, it started blooming. By the end of August, it had grown so tall, it went over the edge of my extra tall roof. That winter I pruned it again but only to about 4' tall with no complaints from the neighbors.
I planted a native wisteria 6 or 7 years ago and last summer was the first sign of any real growth. My garden is not close to any neighbor so I don’t have that concern.
Of course, at the rate it’s growing, I will be planted before it flowers.
Haha , Plant Wisteria, English Ivy over the biggest cities on this planet. That would change "klimate-change".
Imagine the whole city covered in those plants.
Kudzu would be good for this too.
@@missinformed4269 sheesh you know what vines do to houses and masonry?
I live in Colorado-never plant Tamarisk or Aspen trees, in Colorado, for all the reasons Linda mentions!! Learned the heard way.
English Ivy is definitely on that list. Here in Georgia, there is so much kudzu that was planted in the 1930s for erosion control. They finally realized what a problem it was, but it was too late. The south is still having to deal with it nearly 100 years later.
Years ago when I first read about kudzu, i thought it sounded like a great idea to cover a railing. Fortunately my husband caught me. He shared with me that it was a terrible idea and explained why.
Thank G-d!!
Yes. Kudzu grows over everything! I always feel sorry for all the plants and trees being suffocated!
@@mountaingirl4252 Oh my gosh! When we first moved to Georgia ('90) I asked what that was that looked like it was devouring massive pine trees. It was kudzu! We were shown a picture of the same exact place 2 yrs before. It showed people removing a VERY small patch of the horrible blight now in Georgia and using a back hoe to dig up all around the area, hoping to rid the woods of Kudzu. Unfortunately, 2 yrs after that picture was taken, the entire area was smoothered by Kudzu! 3 yrs later many of the beautiful pines had fallen under the weight and suffocation caused by that horrendous vine.
Ah, yes. Kudzu - the plant that ate the South.
Yes, Arkansas, between Wynn AR. and Memphis TN. it's out of control BAD.
I have Virginia creeper growing over my fence just like yours. Before I regard it as a weed, but now I've come to appreciate it. It hides my ugly fence and it becomes a beautiful red in the autumn. I give it a haircut once a month. I'd like to think of my flowers as performers on stage with Virginia creeper as the curtains.
LOL! 🙂
Well-said. It's a magnificent plant. I saw some at a local nursery a couple of years ago. You are inspiring me to take another look there. We're in AZ, and it might be best to plant it in the fall...?
No nuclear devices in the garden? Well, there went my whole weekend!
Hi from Poland:) I'm so glad that someone said about how problematic wisteria and trumpet vine are. My dad planted them decades ago, now I can't get rid of these plants! A trumpet vine has big wooden boughs under the ground and no matter how much I destroy them, few new t.vines welcome me every year around all garden. It means that is has the roots system everywhere. Wisteria is my nightmare every summer - it destroyes wooden gazebo in and outside and it grows really fast.
I was a newly married woman when we bought our first house. 24 years old. I stopped and took a wisteria cutting from the side if the road. I got it to root and put it in my front yard under a tree that was dead. The next day my neighbor showed up with a lovely lilac bush and a chain saw. Unusual way to make a great friend.
I need to know what happened next!
@@ladyema8836- we lived there for 8 years. Tbe Lilac was beautiful and I learned a lot about what to plant and what to avoid.:)
@@christines3638 Thats awesome, and you had a great friend! Thanks for the story :)
A chainsaw? For your dead tree?
Lol the title should be “I have problems with my neighbors plants”🤣😂😅
100% agree with all of this. Wisteria root damage is horrific too.
Your garden is stunning 💗 in Rhode Island, that one thing never to plant would be our state flower, the violet! I inherited them and 30 years later, I have never eradicated them. It's impossible. However, I have recently heard they are edible, so at least I wouldn't starve. ☺️
Love violets
Important video. I planted a wisteria vine and it started to destroy my fence. I immediately had it removed. I planted 'clumping' bamboo as a privacy screen and it's totally fine. Must be CLUMPING bamboo. The only thing I don't like about it are the tiny leaves that it drops. It's been in my garden for over 10 years and has only spread a few feet and it's easy to cut the new stems because they pop up next to the original plant instead of sending out shoots everywhere.
The shedding is usually due to drought. Bamboos are very thirsty plants
So clumping is ok.
My sister lives in So Cal. I complemented her on how cool and modern her bamboo along the fence was- she just did a slow turned side-eye...
In the uk we prune our wisteria every year. To a tight framework- actually you prune twice a year in the winter/early spring. Very easy. No big deal really. You certainly never just let it grow wild like that.
I don't think it grows so vigorously here in the UK, at least I've never seen one grow that enormous.
its not what you can see is the problem its what is going on under the ground take it from someone who has spent days digging up way war tendrils it even penetrated the landscape fabric that i had laid in the vain hope of controlling its expansion!
Same with buddleia and many other plants really. The threat is over exaggerated... probably to get more views.
lol I can promise, though it may be easy to tame in the UK, it is NOT in Northeast Texas. I’ve seen it take over with experienced gardeners throwing everything they know at it. It takes down strong fences with its weight. Tears down power lines. Crosses roads. I love seeing it in bloom…but once it gets going, there’s just no stopping it.
@@dfalco2138 i guess we just prune ours very hard back to a framework early every spring.
Vinca is a pretty flowing plant many colors but gets into everything and is hard to get rid of and also has bitter smelling leaves and flowers.
Never plant vinca in ground .plant in containers...
Omg yes
Oh my goodness me, your garden!!! It is delicious! I'm almost there with the sounds and smells. Spring is almost sprung and I can't wait to get back out into my garden. It has been such a good place for my head this last year.
I think differentiating running bamboo from clumping is important. I've grown the slower growing, clumping varieties (fargesia rufa, robusta, nitida) on our fence lines for 20 years without it invading the neighbor's gardens. And it's gorgeous. I do have running varieties but those have to stay in pots.
Good point, clumping bamboos are very well behaved and are nothing like the running bamboos, just don't expect much growth from them either.
I was just going to make that point. Clumping bamboo is wonderful, I planted timber bamboo, it was 3 inches across at the base and 30 feet tall.
Running bamboo can pop up 10 feet away from the parent plant and can push itself up through asphalt, you will need to contain it with a hard plastic barrier at least three feet down.
Yup if you love bamboo but don't like the outta control nature of it clumping bamboo is the way to go. It's very well behaved but in my opinion not as attractive. I like the variegated runners like Alphonse Carr lol if that's spelled right, and others like the green and white pygmy. I set lose LOL 4 different runners on my property and have made a fairly successful video called "the monsters called the running bamboo" that shows my ignorance, hatred, and unconditional love of these crazy plants. I was out cutting bamboo outta my neighbors yard earlier questioning why I ever planted it.....but I still love it cuz there's nothing quite like it! Maybe God will bless me and my neighbors by the bamboo blooming before I get to old to control it.🤞🤞🤞🤞🙏🙏🙏🙏
I bought my running bamboo from my local garden center. I had no idea there was a differnce and the person at the center should've warned me. I almost had a disaster. I lined a hole I dug with pool liner but the bamboo simply went over it and re-established and began invading my lawn...I finally killed it all off..clumping sounds like the way to go..
@@cherylmillard2067 Mine went right over the barrier and it was 5 inches above the earth..
I was scared of peppermint, but I pulled a lot out before fall and dried it for tea all winter. It has spread everywhere in the small patch but easy enough to pull back to tidy.🙏
Oh yes, mint is very aggressive, it will regrow, at least can be easily pulled out.
@@majawow mine died. No mojitos 😓
So right about the trumpet vine! We have eradicated it from almost everywhere in the yard but we left it run amok in the black walnut trees. The flowers of the vine reach up the trees at least 30 feet and look magnificent in bloom. People stop and ask what kind of tree it is that has such big orange blooms. The hummers really enjoy it.
Hi Dot, I am obsessed with trumpet vine and finally managed to propagate it from seeds and stems cuttings. Now I watched this video and am concerned that it will overtake my little home destroy it and strangle the trees I am so upset what to do?
My mom planted a trumpet vine years ago...against my earnings. 20 years later and it’s taken over the neighborhood.
😳
Thank you for the information. I just bought trumpet vine. It will stay in 50 gall container. I will keep on eye on this so I can trim whenever it need to. I want to use it for privacy around the pool area.
🌿💗 the neighborhood🤣🤣🤣 (I believe it) 💗🌿
@@abbyabuyuan7675 Don’t do it! My husband planted a trumpet vine and it was on the roof. I’m still fighting it off after 15 years. Ditto for bamboo.
lol
Oh my Linda, i am sooo with You with that bamboo! Had to learn that lesson on my own, i planted one like about 15 years ago and all went fine the first lets say three years. But then i started finding little bamboo plants like even five or ten meters away and finally radically tried to dig the whole thing out which was a huuuuge amount of work. Still finding rests of it now and then and if i´d not be after it the bamboo propably still would take over the garden completely in some years...
WHAT A BEAUTIFUL garden with a beautiful lady I can tell she's got lots of class and she's educated!!!
Thank you for sharing to us
I am clueless as to how Virginia Creeper ended up growing in my garden. Probably from a bird dropping a seed because my neighbors don't have it growing. It grows along the my bedroom windows and I love the draping it does and the birds build their nest in it. The branches also make great wreath forms because of their flexibility. I have free wreaths to decorate with for the holidays!🤗
Oh! I never thought of that! I hate our creeper. It climbs our 70 ft blue spruce. I decorate wreaths so now I can make my own instead of buying. Woot!
I can't get rid of the Virginia creeper and it damages the morter in my brick wall.
The important thing to know about japanese/chinese imported plants like wysteria and bamboo is that they out-perform native plants, and therefore will take over everything.
China in general is slowly outperforming America not just their plants haha
In certain parts of the world-Ireland-rhododendrons are considered pests as well.
Indeed. Nothing from China. Lol ijs
This is solid advice, and insight!!!👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Kudzu.....
My neighbor has a bamboo in her garden and I am so tired to fight it, especially because it grown in the very steep hill and I it is very dangerous to climb there. Once I fell from that hill, I am glad I haven’t broken any bone. I wish she watched your video. I was thinking about planting wisteria but after watching this I won’t. Thank you.
Thank you very much, and may I say you have a beautiful garden. God bless you and your family x
The neighbor at my old house had Boston ivy on a fence between our yards. It came over, under, and between the slats. It was on the ground in my flower bed also. She never trimmed it. I was glad to finally move.
The only thing I sort of regret planting inside my garden is rose of Sharon’s, tons of seeds and seedlings that have to be pulled all the time.
I understand!
You can plant Altheas in hard. poor soil so they don't take root easily. But, they are invasive. I had about 40 seedlings from one plant, dug them up and sold them with a warning.
thank you for the kind heads-up!
I was given one for mother's day long ago. It was gorgeous until the seedlings came. I finally had a garden helper remove it and I'm still finding seedlings three years later.
Is that the Hibiscus?
Love to watch your shows my 13 year old has gotten into gardening and she is a faithful viewer. Thank you.
Such a very helpful and informative presentation video! Thank you, Linda!
As a garden designer who also maintains gardens, I often hear clients say they don't want a plant or tree because it gets too big. Nothing will get bigger or spread futher than you want, unless you do not undertake regular maintenance. I advocate tree pruning every three years, wisteria is pruned twice a year.
Also to note there are different forms of bamboo, some are pachymorphic (clump forming) like the Phyllostachys or Fargesias and some run. If you want to plant bamboo but are afraid of its invasiveness, plant in a strong container and bury the container no deeper than the top of the rootball.
Choose the right plant for the right place. Get to know your own garden, how much sun/shade; what type of soil do you have? Be realistic about the amount of time you can spend maintaing the garden. Most importantly do not impulse buy because something looks good in the garden centre. I make my living from people making these mistakes.
I had to prune my wisteria 6 times a yeae.
I can almost guarantee that if a big box sells it YOU DONT WANT IT. its usually the most invasive easy to grow and now will have that EXTEEMLY.TOXIC CHEMICAL NICOTINE SOMETHING ON IT...
A LOT OF LOCALLY OWN ARE THE SAME TOO...AND U GET A LOT.OF INSECTS DISEASES U DONT WANT....
THAT.SAID.BUY LOCAL.
I had a wisteria that I had to prune every week in the summer or you couldn’t make it up my front steps.
@@elainemoore1110 Those things smell so good but so hard to control. I had to cut mine down when it wrapped itself around the neighbor's deck. Gardening should be fun, not spending all your time on one plant.
Privet! Bishop's weed! Those are 2 local thugs here in middle Tennessee. And then there's Bermuda grass which no one ever plants but you get anyway.
Your hair is adorable and your shirt is just lovely!
Oh yes ! on the bishops weed. I rescued some plants from someone’s garden and there must have been bishops weed in there. I’m in New York and 20 years later I still can’t get rid of it.
Omg Bishop’s Weed. I was buying it at a small nursery and the owner begged me NOT to buy it and said I would regret it but it looked so nice in her landscape; I said I loved it and bought it. Shoot me now! Every time I am trying to get rid of it while NOT getting rid of what its growing within, I think of Theresa begging me NOT to buy it. Just Say No to Bishop’s Weed!!!
Same here in Bowling Green, KY.
@@dereka8041 I'm Seattle, WA so it spreads it's pain all across the country.
Bremuda grass is a nightmare to get rid of!
Thank you so much Linda. I was planning to see if I could train a Trump vine into a hedge covering up a pink cinder block wall in Southern California. I’ve seen them done all over Orange County and LA county. But my construction manager said He detested any vining plant because of where they end up when that good gardening homeowner moves. So I think I’ll put in some nice Dodonaea Purperea and prune them into tree shapes to create the privacy we need.
Thank you for this video. English ivy, Irish ivy and vine clematis are also some to mention that grow just like Wisteria.
I have wisteria as a tree in a 24" pot no drainage holes away from structures and poles and electric lines. my trumpet vine also.
No drainage holes? That makes sense to avoid roots escaping... I'm planting some in pots this week. Did you put stones in the bottom?
There must be a drain hole or the plants would die. Set the pot on bricks so there's open space between the pot and the ground. Poke under the pot a few times a year and saw off any roots that have crept into the soil. Then run like hell when the top growth takes off after bloom. The best use of Wisteria is always in someone else's yard.
@@MyCleverHandle your so wrong. I love it
I couldn't agree more about Wysteria! My old yard had it in the yard when I bought the place and oh my lord it was on the ground and rooting everywhere
I just had my husband dig up our wisteria! It was driving me crazy! We planted a pink lady slipper hydrangea in it's place! So glad that it's gone, but it took a lot of digging! Those wisteria roots are enormous!!
What a great video Linda with so many wonderful,inexpensive ideas. I watched it twice in case I missed something. When the video finished, I immediately added something to my holiday decor thanks to you.😍
I agree 100% about trumpet vine. It is a pest. One plant you don't mention is tradescantia (spiderwort.) It is an invasive plant - even grows in the cracks of the sidewalk.
Its also lovely.
Snow on the mountain.
The ground cover from hell.
I can relate...hate that stuff!
Copy that.
Yes. That is bad. I know someone who hated Lily-of-the-Valley. She planted Snow-on-the-Mountain. It overgrew and replaced all the Lily-of-the-Valley and now is almost impossible to get rid of.
@@joy4118 oh man, i rather have lily of the valley.
Thank you for this video! I recently purchased a Chinese Wisteria sapling for my backyard. My eyes were looking at how beautiful the blooms were, and not at the difficulty, it would present. Thanks to your advice, I will plant something different.
You might want to do a little more research. Its not a monster.
Wow. I haven't even watched all of this yet but looked at the list of the plants you're advising against and realize I've been actively considering THREE of them! Thanks for the heads-up!
"and I don't advocate for using nuclear devices in the garden" that truly made me laugh out loud!!! 😂😂😂 I appreciate the humor in this video Linda!😁😁
I think Linda was seriously tempted to use it on that wisteria ! 😂
@@ozarkview928 I know, I think she paused before saying it, and then again, before digesting the idea -:)
Salt is the best killer of everything especially if you put tons of salt I. The water and just keep putting salt on it and anything g will die
Clumping bamboo vs running bamboo. Clumping bamboo will grow out in a circle, it is controllable. Running bamboo is uncontrollable and should be against the law or code in every city.
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Yes that is true! Ihave several clumping bamboo in my garden and they are so beautiful!
I was thinking about planting clumping bamboo as a privacy screen, but now I’m a little nervous. Do you have any experience with graceful bamboo or Seabreeze bamboo?
@@jamesthomas1123 Are you asking me? I only have experience with Fargesia murielae. I have 3 in my garden, different heights
I love shopping with you! And the banter between you, Kayla and Stewart!
I absolutely adore my wisteria. It is very established and also very large. It scales the front of the house and branches off both left and right. So the whole front of the house is in bloom Spring/Summer. However, I needs yearly pruning as it grows so quickly. I believe the homeowners before us did a great job at training it correctly. If we let it grow higher, I believe it would grow into the roof tiles.... which wouldn’t be good.
I agree. It is gorgeous.
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I guess I'm lucky to live in an environment where I am just happy to see anything survive let alone become a problem - except for tumble weeds.
Yeah, that's like me. See other comment re: my battle with Achillia.
trumpet vine even in Arizona, never see the end of it without a couple of years of drought And digging up all roots
Lol. We must be neighbors😁.
Couple varieties of fig trees do well in the desert. Once established very little maintenance. We had one fig tree producing fruits almost as big as tennis balls and sweet like jelly.
@@kimchee94112 in Australia we have a rock fig, which must source water in the rocks & exposes it's roots over & around cliffs etc. It's a desert dweller, rather special tree which probably provides food for native animals.
I'm in New England and would add Bittersweet to that list. I made the mistake of scattering some seeds years ago for the vine and berries that are commonly used in door wreaths here. It grows and travels underground and comes up everywhere, grows on telephone poles and is seen on roadsides and growing up trees. While it is green and beautiful to look at, it is terribly invasive.
Good video. I just chopped out 5 huge pampas grasses that I foolishly planted around my pool ten years ago. I enjoy your videos. Beautiful garden.
This is interesting but you need close ups so people can actually see the plant!!
OMG I fought Wisteria for years on the property we bought, it was so out of control, almost impossible to get rid of. It was like a monster. The feeders spread all over the yard what a nightmare. I have had to cut wisteria vines so thick it took a CHAINSAW to get through them. DON'T PLANT IT.
I know!!!😱😱😱
Sounds like you had a real problem...it was clearly an old plant which had been allowed to go native...was it against a wall? better to have cut it back severely and trained the new tendrils( feeders I think are what you call them) onto a trellis and remember the flower pinniculs...grow on 12 month old shoots so remember this and prune gently every year.
@@hotoneinspai No, it was a neighbor's "plant" that eventually made it's way onto our 4 acres, it went wild.
@@hotoneinspai You can't control it's roots, it spreads underground all over and will go on and on showing up in places you never expected.
Use salt it kills everything
Thanks for this video very informative for me I'm a zone 7....my neighbor has a hedge of rose of Sharon. I dread the Fall... ugh the seed heads!!! The wind blows them clear across to the other side of my property and all in between😡😢
I have a couple and now when I cut them back I lay a tarp or sheet under them and dispose all the seed heads that drop! This has really saved me a lot of work by greatly reducing hand weeding.
We just purchased a home in North central Oklahoma. The yard all the way around has rose of Sharon --some 12 to 15 FEET wide and just as tall!! We're attacking it with chain saws. It is a life long work in progress.
In parts of South New Jersey there is a purple wisteria that had escaped from gardens & u can see it on poles & fences & tall trees from the highways when driving thru.
I would also put any honeysuckle vine on that list. And Bittersweet vine too!!!!
Black eyed Susans & daisies & Asian plants & butterfly bushes & some grasses too.
Hi Linda. Very good video. Always useful to know what can cause you problems. I have to agree about the Bamboo especially. I planted some in my garden. First year was fine, second year it stared to thrive, third year I realised I had a problem and it started to spread next door. I had to cut all the shoots down to ground level and burn them. Then I started to dig up the roots. It was a hellish job. The root mass where I initially planted it was crazy. It sent rhizomes out from there also which I had to dig out. I always check now before I plant anything.Wish I had seen your video before I planted it haha. Regards, John from UK.
I have virginal creeper that just mysteriously appeared one day. I HATE THIS FREAKING VINE FROM HELL!!! I spend hours upon hours pulling it out of my shrubs. Good luck with the trumpet vine. You will do what IT wants you to.
When dealing with Virginia Creeper ... use gloves. This can be poisonous for some people.
Thank you so much for the warning. I was considering planting wisteria on fence between back neighbor n us.
Thank you so much. Your garden is simply divine.
Planting only natives has worked well for us, but we sadly inherited such things as Virginia Creeper, Rose of Sharon, Silver Maple, Burning Bush, vinca, and some type of reed-y grass.
What’s wrong with Rose of Sharon?
@@spormlastname267 Nothing, except they are prolific seeders. Mowing them helps. Virginia Creeper is a great plant, too.
I've inherited a full crop of bamboo (and to a lesser extent wisteria) in my garden in New Zealand (fabulous temperate climate that allows even the most reluctant plant to flourish). Over one year on, the war is still waging and unfortunately, many very desirable plants are having to be forfeited because they are too deeply intertwined with the bamboo. I am determined to beat it but it will have done a great deal of damage to my body and soul in the process. Linda, you never said a truer word when exhorting your audience to NEVER EVER plant it in their garden!
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For the desirable plants you can try to airlayer some branches before you remove them, that way you can plant them again after you've finished waging your war against bamboo. Since the plants wont have their old roots there shouldn't be bamboo growing from it.
Just make sure you pot up the newly rooted branches until you can plant them out.
grafted wisteria in container simply EXCELLENT!!! bamboo in container simply EXCELLENT!!!
I wish I could give this comment 1,000 likes. I love bamboo, but I’ve resisted planting it. Container bamboo, here I come!!!
Bamboo escapes
Wisteria was in the yard when I bought my home. It was up in the trees in the backyard and was beautiful when it bloomed that spring. 18 years later it has trailers across the entire 1/2 acre backyard and ruined the lawn. In a wooded area it grew through the privacy fence and some vines became large enough to break the fence boards. I finally cut all of the vines (some over 6” in diameter) that were climbing the trees but it is a constant battle to keep the thousands of shoots it puts up every year. The seed pods contain from 3 to 5 thumbnail sized seeds that are highly toxic to any pets who might chew on them. Keeping them from climbing has stopped the blooms and seed pods but they continue to grow by the shoots that come from huge underground roots. DO NOT PLANT IT, DO NOT BUY A HOUSE THAT HAS IT!!!!!!😱
I agree with all of your list and have fought them all. I do grow a clumping bamboo and it is very controllable in a home garden, but if in doubt don't grow it. I harvest the seed pods from my trumpet vine before they pop open and that has helped a bunch. I live in a desert climate and can grow ivy, vinca major and chameleon plant and let intense sun and heat control them, but in Pacific NW they are huge problems. Redbuds are another free seeding tree that require a lot of work.
Wisteria is awful just like cudzu.
Yes! Carolina Jasmine...was so pretty climbing my wrought iron trellis until it dragged it down. Last year I took out the vine and the trellis and thought it was all gone, wrong. Evidently the root is traveling under my stone patio because I found it climbing my blueberry bushes this year. 😳 Also, Cypress Vine! I planted it to climb over the support of a swing. I bet I pulled out hundreds of little starts popping up all over my gravel and in the grass around the swing. Grrrr. 🤪 I’m in zone 8a, Georgia. Love that you are helping everyone avoid the other bad ones! ❤️
Joy Whitley Hi Joy...I thought the cypress vine was sooo cute when I was gifted some babies years ago from a friend...you know the rest of the story😂
NaturalLife 😜lol!!
My neighbors behind me planted bamboo. What a nightmare for us. The roots dig in deep and require someone with lots of strength to dig and hack them up. Thank you for making others aware. If you hire someone to landscape your yard make sure they don’t use bamboo. Our neighbors hired a landscaper and this is what they used🥺.
Bamboo hates copper. an acquaintance used copper to contain her bamboo for decades before she sold her home. And some bamboo is spreading, and other bamboo is clumping.
My neighbor planted trumpet vine and it totally grew into her shed and destroyed it along with her wooden fence.
Leylandii - great if you trim it regularly and never let it grow above 6’. I felled some 30 foot trees with a hand saw, and when I asked a neighbour if it was ok to remove one he rushed out to help me. It cost me £200 to get the stumps removed.
I have every one of those plants in my yard, and I love them. Ivy and creeper like the shade so it doesn't invade the well lighted areas. Wisteria can be pruned from time to time - and should be! Each plant adds something to the landscape and all of them are like children, they need some degree of supervision. My yard has a type of bloom in it year round and it adds a little cheer.
I rip out any Virginia creeper that rears it’s head. The neighbor has it climbing up trees so I can enjoy the autumn color without too much trouble.
I started a wisteria a few years ago & it’s still limping along (too much shade, maybe this year it’ll finally grow)
@@jorgehoran1691 It takes a couple of years (depending on the soil) for the wisteria roots to become established, and then it will take off. If it has something to climb on, it will grow straight up, seeking the sunlight. In a few more years, you will need to keep it pruned, or it will take over a location.
Beautifully said as I have all those plans as well!
I can NOT get rid of the Virginia Creeper in my yard... most especially in my juniper. It’s an inherited problem. Ugh
@@leighcontella811 When the ground is soft, you can often pull it up by the roots. I don't know your soil type, but in hard clay, just cut out all the roots you can find.
Bought a house with a dead looking wisteria root sticking out of the ground. Never had a leaf on it. Thought it was dead untill I went into my attic, where I found all the live leaves growing abundently.
You are kidding!!!
At my last home I had a detached garage. My neighbor on one side (about 30 yds) away from garage) had wisteria growing on an arbor. I always enjoyed it from afar. My neighbors behind me me and across the alley (about 75 yds away...I had half an acre) had bamboo across their rear fence line. My garage was old and damp and built into the slope of the hill. Took it out and built new one. That summer I had BOTH wisteria AND bamboo coming up INSIDE my new garage between the slab and the walls! I kid you not! Seems we had disturbed the roots and exposed them to LIGHT! What had been dormant was now ALIVE! Like Frankenstein! We had to nuke them with poison and I’m an organic gardener in Texas! I was LIVID! Took my animals to an hotel! Here in my new home nandina goes nuts but folks want it so I let people come get. Same with herbs, palm pups, grasses, etc. I give away free they just have to dig carefully with my sterilized shovels. Works for all concerned!
Years ago our neighbour made the mistake of planting wild onions. They are now in three different gardens and spread throught the lawn and flowerbeds. ☹️
Great advice Linda. For me, it's English Ivy and Lily of the Valley!
Lily if the valley? Really? I have it in my garden and it doesn’t seem to be an issue. Maybe our climate is different to yours.
I like both Lilly of the valley and vinca, both considered too aggressive.
I want a dense ground cover in that area so I have both there and let the, battle it out!
Oh....Lily of the Valley? I would LOVE to have them growing in my garden, but it doesn't work. Probably the wrong soil and not a real shady place.
Hi. I live in Sydney, Australia. A few years ago we got our back garden landscaped and mentioned that we wanted some kind of tall plants to block the view from the apartment buildings a few hundred meters away. They suggested bamboos and boy did they ruin both ours and our neighbours' lives. A couple of years ago we had to pay a company to come and dig them completely out of our garden. We are still getting the odd shoot coming out here and there. As far as I'm concerned bamboo is the devil's plant.
A friend of mine had it all along her back fence. Then she got a goat! The goat ate them down to nubs. LOL
Look for a plant called tiger grass instead of bamboo. I have it on my fence line and it is about 8ft tall has no runners and is only 2 foot wide from the fence line. It is a great for nosey neighbours but doesn’t take up much room. I will not plant the ivy now, thanks for the tips.
@@tinasteer2507 Hi Tina. Thank you for the suggestion. Will look that up.
@@lizbeth9222 Hahahah Liz, that's gold!
You’re so right. Thank you! My neighbor has planted bamboo, ivy, privet and wisteria. All such a nuisance!
(screams internally) Wow. I'm so sorry.
Just found your site and so amazed and impressed. Lovely garden(s). Thanks for the inspiration and guidance.
Welcome!
Honeysuckle is on my list! It was constantly taking down my pasture fencing!!
I loved this video, knew most of them, someone tried to give me trumpet vine and I said NO🤭👍
Trumpet vine and wisteria are an in-lawn plant to be pruned into a tree, in the middle of your lawn, next to NOTHING. 🤣 THAT is how ya grow those. Lol
Thank you miss, very informative, I've been working with flowers for years pulling orders . I know now I know nothing and sales people know even less. Love you and thank you for passing your wealth of knowledge. Sorry for my run on sentences.
wow i know nothing about gardening and from a totally different part of the world but this is really interesting ..i love your garden! Its divine.