16 Invasive Species Sold at Garden Centers You Should Never Buy
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- Опубликовано: 11 июл 2024
- Most of us gardeners assume that the people that run our local garden center are knowledgeable and know exactly what they're selling - and for the most part, that's true. But what happens when some of the most commonly sold plants also happen to be some of the most invasive?
Due to the globalization of our society, it's become very easy to get plants from different areas of the world, grow them, and sell them to gardeners everywhere.
Here's a list of 16 of the most commonly sold invasive species. Watch out for them next time you're browsing for a new plant for the yard!
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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
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😊
😂😂
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?
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.
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
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.
Me: what a pretty plant!
You: dont buy this! It grows quickly and will not die!
Me(and my brown thumb) : 🤔you dont say...
That is funny. I can testify to the truth about the English Ivy. I planted 4 small containers years ago on the North side of the house. I must trim it at least once a year and remove it from my Japanese Maple tree or it will damage the house and my favorite tree.
I think it attracts or harbors mosquitoes.😬
I think we need a more advanced way of looking at this. Any imported species that directly kills local plants or animals is a destructive invasive species. Like vines that kill trees by shading out all the light - yes - they are very bad & we should shop importing them & try to get rid of them as much as possible. And knapweed is toxic to both cattle & other plants - gotta do everything possible to control & reduce its population!!! However, when it come to bushes & trees that are only competing for space on the ground space by growing - plants naturally compete
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Tasha Battaglino 🤣🤣
Right? You say “invasive” I hear “hard to call”.
I’d like to see a video about how to get rid of these invasive species without resorting to poison.
Mowing will keep most of them under control, at least in the confines of your yard, if the location is suitable for mowing. Cut down the plant, keep the area mowed. A few of these have widely scattered seeds, which is a bigger problem since you can't mow the entire environment. Also, if you're mowing something like bamboo--it will keep sending up shoots in the lawn for quite some time, but if it doesn't have any unmowed areas to support the growth it will eventually die.
I've killed leaves on my houseplant when dish soap and vinegar touched them. I've thought about spreading dish soap or bleach on some weeds but I have not tried it yet.
Me too
Boiling water might work for some of them.
I got rid of weeds on the side of the house by spraying it with white vinegar.
Just fill a spray bottle and go to town on them.
I'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
@@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.
Most of these things I have in my yard 😟
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 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
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
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 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.
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 !
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.
Invasive depends highly on area youre in and what part of the world your in so specifying where its invasive is really helpful
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!
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 remove English Ivy from Seattle parks every single week. It grows fast and kills our urban forests. There's huge volunteer events to remove it, but we can never get it all.
Do you leave Ivy that grows on fences? Ivy that is over 10 years old blooms in autumn and lots of insects feed from it. At least that is how it is in.northern Germany. I do remove it from trees and garden beds. Yesterday I was tempted to remove a lot from a wild area in my garden, but there is a chance that hedgehogs are overwintering there. I know we have some toads overwintering on our property as well and I don't want to disturb the animals. I'll wait till March.
@@jinde75 It might be native in Germany.
If you mix weed killer with paraffin and brush it on the leaves it will kill almost everything without damaging the ground
@@jinde75 it's native in europe, gotta love my ivy mate!
@@XLightChanX I know it's native. I wrote how I can be beneficial. I just don't like it when it kills my trees and covers the whole garden.
I almost bought English Ivy today to grow around my mailbox but then something in me made me think “this might be a bad idea...” I’m glad I thought that, my neighbors are always ripping Ivy off of the side of their house.
English ivy is not something to worry about- unless you leave it untended for 5 years..
Great for potting and hanging plants but not outdoors ! (:
It will be fine if you tend to it, ivy can be controlled and should be ok around a mail box just don’t put around a home, or anywhere large :)
You are correct to choose another plant. We have English IVY that was here long before we came. If I don't regularly cut it way back, it grows literally like a weed and is impossible to remove. It harbors rats. Hard pass. Find a nice native plant, one that will support the other wildlife in your area.
@@athenamissinghome619 Just don't put it on your boundary, easy way to upset the neighbours
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
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….
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!
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.
My husband bought wisteria to plant on our newly built pergola. It took three (3) years to destroy Mayflower beds...my neighbors. Garden and even under ...through our pond. And up in my other neighbors yard..we spent a fortune...and countless hours trying
to fight it.I finally had to destroy my soil tear it out and start from scratch. Good luck and God Bless
My 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
Thank you for the info. Can you do a video for the opposite? Like what are some easy and good plant for the garden
Definitely will :)
Great idea! Of course, the thing is also, what is invasive in zone 6 isn't in zone 4, 5. Couldn't grow a decent wisteria here if you tried really hard. Englemann Ivy, honeysuckle (japonica), mint spp....yikes! Russian olive, and purple loosestrife used to be sold in Nurseries here. No longer. No one buys (merchants), the growers don't propagate...It's all education.
Google native plants for your area
@@ellenmcintyre1247 Also keep in mind how the the season where you live are changing. As an example, where I live (Atlantic City, NJ) spring and fall are about 5 minutes long nowadays. Not so when I was growing up.
My 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.
our state has a program where they trade you a Dogwood sapling for a picture of you with a cut down Callary Pear :)
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.
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.
I loved this video, thank you for making it! Looking forward to more of these as well!
This video is super helpful in identifying invasive species. I think I'll start reading your blogs now. 🙂
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
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! 😉)
Please do more of this type of video educating us of things we need to know. Thank you for your diligence. 🦋
This was more information that I sorely need. You are right about nursery information. I have learned to do my own research because they will sell you anything. Plant and learn year by year. I have a few of these plants you showed in my yard. Please keep these posts going. We ‘learning by doing’ gardeners need you.
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!
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.
@@jackyechan 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.
@@jackyechan Most grass that the general public plants is a weed. You just have to learn about, then get, something native to plant.
That you for advocating for these species and educating the public..Magnificent!
Thanks for that video I found it very informative by all means please do more
We have lantana in Australia that's invasive in some areas and not in other areas. It's good to get to know what's invasive where you are before planting things. Great video
I love lantana. I live in mid Atlantic east USA so it is an annual here
If you like and wish for an invasive species in your garden? PLEASE DONT BE A SELFISH NEIGHBOUR..... have the plant but PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE plant them in POTS so that they don’t take over and invade your innocent 😇 neighbours beautiful garden! THANK YOU 🙏. That is all... ❤️🦋🙏
With some of those invasives, that's not even good enough. Be very careful about what you buy to put in a pot.
I mean, as someone who lives in the middle of no where with no neighbor for achres, I think it will be okay in the ground. Not everyone can high five their neighbor from their window hahaha
I have a burning passion for invasive plants and love making stories out of them. However I don’t wanna plant any anywhere near my garden anytime soon.
But the problem with them producing seeds is the seeds are carried by many vectors: wind, birds, squirrels, etc
The previous homeowner planted a good number of these. Endless issues. Thank you for the video!
Thank You Kevin. this was so valuable, and I count on this information when considering what to plant!
I have a Honey Suckle though, which I got at the Native Plant store (not Japanese variety...I put it out by the compost pile...
Very informative. Thank you.
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 .
Great video. Your knowledge is priceless, please keep sharing!
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.
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.
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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.
The plant that is the bane of my existence is big leaf maple. It's a native tree, but every year I'm pulling up seedlings. The mess of leaves in the fall, and the helicopters in the spring. It was a happy day when the neighbor cut down the massive clump (which was starting to rot, and dropped most of it's mess on my property) between our properties.
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.
This is a brilliant video, thank you so much.
Thank you!
So good to know. My daughter and I are starting to fill in a new home where we live. I was considering one or two of these! Now I know to avoid!!! YES!!!! Keep these videos up! I am new to your channel and love it! 🌻🌼🌱🌿🌳💖
Thank you! Great information!
Thank you for sharing!
My first lesson on invasive species sold in nurseries was with morning glory.
Boy did I learn the hard way! lol
I had a neighbor who planted it on the chain link fence between our houses. He would yell at me for cutting it on my side. It grew over 4 feet a week during the growing season. I know someone else that it took over their yard and the dry riverbed they had. They have been working on removing it from their yard for years. Finally they have the upper hand. I have seen it kill trees.
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Yes ma'am, I had neighbor who moved in next door who wanted to continue to grow them in between us and I just told her that I had made a mistake and ' here enjoy theses sugar peas and Japanese winged beans, instead'. lol
Oh shit. I’m in Scotland and I’ve just planted a bunch of morning glory seeds along my fence. I want it to grow biggg to keep the nosey, unsanitary neighbours from peering over. Kinda regretting it now lol
Depends on where you live and what kind of morning glory. The annual one sold in seeds is not invasive where I live but the perennial one sold as a plant is a house eater!
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lol Nooo they are still a beautiful flower. I imagine it will look magnificent!
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!
Thank you for the information!
Thanks for posting this information. More awareness is badly needed to stop sale a propogation of invasives!
Interesting article
Wish I had seen it 15 years ago before I planted wisteria
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.
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.
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 !
These types of videos are definitely what I look for. There are so many toxic plants growing here in New York State that came from far away. Now we’re struggling to get rid of them because they are so dangerous to humans and animals. Thanks so much for sharing.
So dangerous! #cmonplanta #usehuman🐂💩
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.
Thanks for all the information. I will keep this in mind just brought a house with 3 Acres.
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 RUclips video and there was a guy talking about how he couldn't get rid of it. Glad I looked that plant up...
Some of these are ones I was considering planting!
So true. Living in SW Fl and having had a landscaping company for 20+ years here, I've seen and dealt with too many invasive species. And homeowners who are down for the winters don't care. They want it like "up north."
My Sister lives in FL. Her neighbor had a nursery business, Every kind of plant is growing crazy all over the 3 acres! Big time jungle!!! Then her neighbor 3 houses down is raising those black and white iguanas! They get loose in "the jungle", Wonder if some of these invasive plants are poisonous for gopher tourtise?
Thank you for sharing this list
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 remember I once bought this really pretty looking packet of seeds and was growing it. It was growing really well. Decided to look it up and all I could find was websites saying "Invasive, do not grow," I was in a pickle and decided to actually try to kill it on purpose instead of allowing it to go wild. Learned a lesson that day to always look up a plant before planting it. I have seen what can happen when invasive plants come to your area and I do not want to be the one to introduce another one.
Lilly of the valley is really pretty, I have found memories of it as a child and I want to plant it, but I heard that it was an invasive plant so that is another one I will have to skip.
This may sound strange but strawberries can be very invasive once they start putting out suckers, the roots are so tough and go so deep that if you allow it to it will take over your whole growing space/medium, even the stems that connect the suckers are hard to break.
Native plants by definition are not invasive. One can't invade their native habitat.
Technically, your strawberries are aggressive. A plant can be aggressive without being invasive. Invasive actually is detrimental to the environment. A lot of people confuse the two terms.
Are you sure they are strawberries & not mock strawberries? Mock strawberries grow all over my yard. It is a vine that puts out what look like little strawberries, but they are tasteless. Mock strawberry has yellow flowers. Real strawberry has white flowers.
Round up will kill anything just get it on the leaves and nothing around it that you don’t wanna kill
That’s why I use strawberry as a ground cover. It keeps the weeds down but does not climb on the shrubs
Interesting, thank you for sharing.
Good list! We bought a house a couple of years ago and it turns out about half of this list is currently planted in our yard. Wonderful!
I've got english ivy growing along my fence, nandina in my front yard, chinese privets in my back yard, three euonymus bushes in my garden area, and a barberry bush growing right next to those.
At least for the privets I've started digging them up for bonsai. They were growing next to my fence and were messing it up so they had to go!
My aunt had bamboo in her yard in California that someone else planted. She said you could literally hear it grow at night!
thank you for this interesting list, you have helped me find a cover crop to weed suppress a boarder for me, the common periwinkle, and as I am in the UK it is a native European plant =)
as for the Ivy it can be an incredibly beautiful plant, it will climb up any thing so if you let it, it will cover your entire house XD
More videos like this please! So easy to digest info in this format, thanks!
Most definitely a useful video. Here in Brisbane Queensland I just spent several days physically removing the Singapore Daisy weed. Invaded from three properties away and it took over and I’d been trying for years to keep it under control to no avail. With the help of my son Nigel of Prehistoric Tank channel. Thanks for the video.
I 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.
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!
Great video, thank you!
Thank you for the good information!
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.
Thank you for such an informative video! I knew about some of these but definitely not all.
Great video! Thank you!💕
Previous owner planted many of these. Been working on the honeysuckle for 7 years. It’s going well. Have to pull every spring.
Thank you for the information. The neighbors have the honeysuckle that has doubled in size in almost 2 years. It does smell fantastic, tho. Now how do I keep it in their yard is the question that comes to mind.
When I was younger I always carried around these two huge wooden planters in the back of my van for strawberries when I went camping and everywhere I was told to stay off state land
Thanks so much for posting this.
so glad someone did a video on this subject thank you
I built a raised bed and grow bamboo in it and it is beautiful. I keep an eye on it so it doesn’t spread. When the wind blows it makes this beautiful sound.
do you use it for crafts? might help keep its population in check. Bamboo is really strong and you could easily make your own garden stakes for tomatoes, beans, ect with them. It used to be believed that paleolithic humans didn't go into asia during the stone age. But one theory is that the bamboo was so good for spears they just stopped making flint spearheads and arrowheads and made their weapons from bamboo, which biodegrades, leaving no evidence. :D its a lovely and very useful plant, but it has to be looked after!
AnimeShinigami13 yes, I plan to use it for trellis stakes for my plants. One of the types of bamboo I grow is black bamboo so it will make beautiful trellis stakes. I read somewhere that bamboo is very good for the environment because it absorbs greenhouse gases and releases more oxygen than trees.
He’s referring to Running Bamboo , there is a less invasive alternative called Clumping Bamboo.
Crouton I have both types of bamboo. Clumping also spreads. I have 1 clumping bamboo that is getting close to the neighbors yard that I will need to move and divide.
I was thinking about growing bamboo for homestead projects but now I know that I need to do a lot of research first and see if it can be kept under control. I already have a few of the vines in this video that previous owners let loose.
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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.
Ah I know this was from 2017 but thank you so much, I was looking at the bamboo and fire bush for my garden but now ill look into something more native for it. I'll maybe keep bamboo as an indoor plant instead, im still working out the details since we just moved into our home. So far I do have pollinator flowers and veggies growing but... the lot is bare lol. Thank you for all your awesome videos, I am learning a lot.
Thanks!! I learn a lot!