Left behind the obedient plant and gooseneck, because I could control them in the clay of my old garden, bud knew they would cause trouble in the sandy loam of the new place. tall, pinch them back to promote bushier growth. If a plant has mint in its name, chances are it's super invasive. Although it can be grown from seed, its easier and more reliable to purchase nursery-grown plants since hybrids may not grow true to seed and some varieties are sterile. I inherited it when I rented my home. their leaves and flowers are v attractive - training them high prevents them taking over the garden bed and they still provide giant fruit while providing a bit of shade. The minty flavored leaves of catmint are commonly used in herbal teas and are thought to have various health benefits. I will be planting them in the spring. Wish I was your neighbor to get take some of these problem plants out of your yard. This species is a hybrid of N. racemosa and N. nepetella and is named for Dutch nurseryman J.H. :). It has been 4 years now and it is still only about 9' at it's longest runner and very sparse. Too late. haha. I'll be sure to include it in my follow up article this spring. The front yard is an eighth of an acre, not huge but more than big enough! I knowright? I keep the mint contained in its planter by using the hot salted water from cooking pasta or the hot vinegar when I clean the coffeemaker. It's weird, because it seems like any other kind of day lily doesn't seem to have a spreading problem. Trees 100 feet tall had ivy with trunks 6 in diameter that completely engulfed the trees. Dead head old flowers and you get beautiful roses from June until they are covered in snow. One of your hated flowers, the daisy, is one of my favorites, but I haven't found it to be very invasive. Some of the bad flowers look good to me. I live in Ontario in zone 5b. I wait until they are done flowering but before they go to seed and pull them out. Features gray-green, hairy, ovate leaves (to 1" long) with crenate margins, prominent veining and heart-shaped bases. Condo board gave me warnings even though I explained that I was following the previous rules to get rid of comfrey. 24 Purple Flowers to Brighten Your Garden Even mint is easy to contol if planted in a submered plastic bucket. In my zone 8, the host plants die but they are prolific re-seeders and will pop up anywhere. I loved gardening but seem to have a brown thumb! Positive: On Apr 24, 2003, . Not fun getting it back so I can plant sun-loving plants to replace the shade-lovers that I moved. :) Absolutely take over your yarddouble check. Save yourself the headache and plant the annual version from seed instead. Please educate yourself about plant selection, garden design, and ecological landscaping from reputable sources and stop influencing peoples relationship with nature with misinformation. All of it, not a single plant came back. Maybe try giving the Chinese lanterns excessive amounts of water? Even my next door neighbor has pretty flowers and helps me to take care of mine too. At least clover feeds bees and butterflies. If you love something, even if it's on the list, you should still plant and enjoy. Ferns are a problem for me. Virginia Creeper I have to admit is horrible. Thanks! I say it takes trial and error and patience to find what you like and just as importantwhat will work for you. Does any one have other ideas for control? The root is too long and deep to dig it out. From what I have seen in my neighborhood (I live in a tall pine forest in the sierra nevadas of northern california) grass doesnt do well at all, mosses do do pretty well though.and those ferns talked about. I also have a yard that is overrun with ferns, lady of the valley and bellflower that I have been picking non-stop for three years, so it does make me a bit more salty. Vinca vine loves to grow under evergreens at least in Minnesota. Should be a law that people need planters ed before putting that in. Ugh.) I imagine that getting rid of those plants or other problematic garden features like rotting trees can be a real pain. On this page: Basics | Varieties of Catmint | Planting Catmint | Care and Maintenance | Pictures | Landscaping with Catmint. Plant only if you like running around in circles trying to contain it. They were the start of a butterfly garden and bird haven. My mom has an area of lily of the valley that's been there over 50 yrs. What I suggest to people I meet who are just starting into gardening is to visit their local agricultural extension agency (in the USA) and do searches on the net, for their zone, for invasive plants. This cultivar was developed in England and is named for a garden there, not for the plant's size. Not such a bad thing. I love my daisies and tho they do spread like crazy, I just thin them out every fall or Spring. Catmint plant is an extremely easy-growing plant with few pests or problems. I'm also enlightened about a few others & I thank you (& everyone!) You wouldn't think something that starts out so pretty could take down a 200 year old tree, but it can, and it does. I have read from others they are low maintenance, and have a very high resistance to diseases. Runners underground shoot up new plants all over the yard. We ended up having to clear about 2 acres of dead trees and fallen trees. It provides a lovely canopy for our hammock. Used underneath flowering shrubs or specimen plants, they can be quite lovely and reduce the need for weeding and mulching. It's always been a weed to me? Last part of it is wrapped around my Bougainvillea. My trick for peaceful co-planting is to plant them in containers in the ground. I live in a totally different zone, so have local unique problems. I had maybe 10, 5 years ago. As someone with a degree in plant and soil sciences and an agricultural extension employee I find this article troubling. Brightens up a shady spot, but DONT do it!! If you don't want to grow anything in that area, you can smother the area with cardboard or landscape fabric and 4 inches of mulch. This article was written to be slightly humorous and for the person who is new to perennial gardening and might not realize how much work it can be. LOL Gonna try a knife and hope I don't hurt my 2 colors on one plant Bougainvillea. Catnip also acts as a repellent for many garden pests including aphids and squash bugs. I will help the two neighbours clean up as I think it will reduce my own work in the future. We love them. Neighbor gave me a few plants three years ago. I also have the yarrow, but it's not over taking it's spot. . This made me want to run out and grab most of these plants for my garden! Only a fool or unlearned person would purposely plant them. That is just one example. I always wanted drifts of Alaska daisies I finally got my dream that after growing them from seed lovingly caring for them watched them in just A few years take over my yard and my life with dead heading thousands of bunches that just seemed to appear over night one Spring ?wouldn't you know it was at the same time I had major surgery and medical problems going on so all I could do is enjoy the beauty of my dream! Beauty in the eyes of the beholder. In upstate NY, we call them orange "ditch lilies" because you find them along the roadside everywhere. Avoid it. plenty of sun My wife loves them so I thought I could grow some in our garden as a surprise. Catmint is perfect for containers, borders, herb gardens, and pollinator gardens. look! Perfect! Talk w pretty purple flowers. Funny how some things can be so pretty until you look under the pretty! And yes your ability to manage any particular one. Various shades of lavender-blue, pink, violet, or white, often enhanced by darker calyces. Gardening here is a constant search for "what plant refuses to die" and it's mostly an exercise in futility. Same with mugwort, which looks and smells like chrysanthemums until you realize theres no flower- then its too late. It didn't matter if it landed upside down or not, it would come back the next year. This plant should be banned from cultivation everywhere. I was surprised to see ferns growing out of other pots so I would just yank them out. So I guess I would say Grandma was right.live with your plants awhile and Nepeta has slightly aromatic gray-green foliage with a delicate, lacy appearance. The worst is yucca!! My Mom had them in the back yard when I was growing up, and they disappeared before I had to sell the house. doubt I planted it all! Some species aren't so good for pollinators, though because they displace other species and form monocultures. Nothing like Spiraea which creates ~100 plants each year. My daisy patch is beautiful this year. A very hoity toity landscaping firm planted it my front garden bed as a flowering plant. It pretty quickly became a bush, then a very unruly, woody shrub.. it is too big, with its unattractive, twisty woody parts, for the front of the garden. Some of these flowers are beautiful and would bring me joy to have half of them growing in my yard. Chameleon plant -hoyttunia - gets my vote too!! I love gardening! Mulch will help retain moisture and keep down weeds. The plants can grow their roots down, do not need any extra watering or feeding, but they cannot spread out. My regret is oregano. . Hay scented fern roots form mats several inches thick and it's awful to remove. This article was originally written with plants that are problematic in zone 3 in mind. Best thing to control chives, in addition to container planting, remove ALL the pretty purple flowers before they go to seed. Gooseneck, spiderwort and those orange day lilies are relentless as is malva. It's not crazy at all! I would like to add Vinca to your list. Kristen, thank you for the info about what not to plant. ..big mistake! I love daylilies. We just bought a home in a new state so your zone info helps too. My neighbors must think I'm nuts. Even after the blooms peak in midsummer, rosy purple calyces remain to prolong the colorful display. So yes, unless you can have a spot dedicated to one of these particular plants, don't plant them in the ground. I'm in zone 8a as well, specifically NE Texas, and you're definitely right about it being an exercise in futility! You are so right, they fill in nicely and then take over, so plant carefully. Well, I love the way my ferns look popping up here and there. Once they are established they produce so many blooms on one plant that they bloom for weeks. Please include morning glories. It's easy to hand pull, but I can think of 1000 things I'd rather do! 2021 Perennial of the Year: Cats Pajamas catmint (Nepeta faassenii). What a beautiful presentation. Everyone in my cul-de-sac has lovely displays, but they're almost all the same plants. They end up everywhere, can't stop them. And the old fashioned orange daylilly but I plant those on a hill well away from my garden and let them run wild into the woods. & it's low growing. Probably gout weed, lily of the valley, and bellflowers are your best bet. It's pretty, but it roots DEEP quickly and spreads wide in any soil without additional water in our drought. Note: Kristen, read the sentences you wrote about affiliate links. So I need to put them somewhere outside of the yard. Faassen's catmint is sterile and won't self . You: Of your list only mint and Virginia creeper are a problem for me. Maybe thats because I have clay soil and also because I cut all the fern fronds off - right down to the ground every year in mid February or early March. That's why fine gardens are filled with them. Dandelions are also beneficial. Also, if you have anything growing in driveway cracks or such, pour over them a very warm mixture of 10 parts water to 1 part bleach. Both plants have gray-green foliage on square stems. That sounds terrible! I cant believe orange trumpet vine Campsis Radicans isnt on this list. Pulling them out is not the answer.those roots are already traveling!! Just about any yellow-flowering plant looks good alongside catmint, but those sharing similar growing requirements and bloom times include Coreopsis grandiflora Early Sunrise, Achillea Moonshine yarrow, and yellow daylilies, such as Hemerocallis Stella de Oro. So it will get in under fascia and soffits, travel into lofts looking for light and then send shoots back out again under the apex of roofs. learned there are multiple names for the same darn plant. That and wild grape vines are very hard to dig out. I can't get rid of them. But you can control this nature of catmints by taking proper measures and maintenance. It is either that or a gun. You're disparaging 80,000 registered cultivars because one wild species is awful. I planted them 1 year from seeds and the next year transplant them to another area of my garden bc I wanted to do something different (which it didnt survive).. but mid summer they came back in the original spot hogging the sun from everything I put in its spot. I'm finding them everywhere! I guess I will lay down a good soak of vinegar (the ground is already acidic, being in a pine forest) and then a thick layer of newspapers and can get pinewood chips from the fire dept from their free chipper program. I'm very fortunate to have 4 acres. . Will the rocky soil and aggressive neighboring plants help keep mint in check or would you suggest I dig the mint up now before spring comes? Thanks for all this information and I enjoyed the pictures too. Thank you in advance. I've had more birds, butterflies, and bees on the European "bull" thistle than practically any other plant. Leave it alone for s minute and its from the devil. All of them are invasive in our climate. Phlox spreads but is not invasive, making it ideal for an easy and satisfying ground cover. Loved your post and I learned a lot!! Vinca MINOR, if planted in a colder region, especially where it's snowy, will die back in the winter and regrow each spring. Ugh. Water new plants or transplants regularly through their first growing season until they become established. Then, there was one in my backyard. They look good in certain areas but other places they are are a pain. However, I've heard a TON of horror stories from my readers and it seems to be a definite no-no. Good to know! Just because garlic mustard can feed some flying pollinators doesn't mean its drawbacks don't outweigh what good it can do. Usually, non-native species support fewer insects because their chemical composition isn't what the local insects are adapted to. Plant once and have flowers that bloom for years. I can relate. *sigh*. Keep Nature provides us with so many beautiful, useful flowers and plants which are relied on by other species, especially insects (eg., bee species) without whom we could grow very little! Thanks for a great article. But the birds eat the berries that come from the "hood" in late summer and have dropped them in places I don't care for them to be. From late spring onward, masses of fragrant two-lipped lavender-blue flowers tower above the dense gray-green foliage, creating an eye-catching display for the middle or back of sunny garden beds. Roots trace down to 2 feet and spread away, far far away. Everywhere. Have long orange flower Aug/Sep then dies off leaves go all brown and fall to the ground start shooting March again. It's invasive and rarely stays where you want it to be. In 2018, I removed at least 100 Ostrich Ferns from our yard, and then in the following year, I pulled out another 218. Cut Flowers$100 Cut Flower Garden Update Chinese Lanterns have almost totally swallowed up my expensive hostas. As it is, I live in good old HOT HOT HOT Texas and would kill, well, not really, to grow some of these. It won't die the roots are so hard to pull up. Lantana ( Lantana camara) is a broadleaf evergreen shrub native to tropical areas, and it is a notable invasive in Florida and Georgia and across the South all the way to California. Gardeners can learn lots of things through your blog. Oh no, that sounds awful! We too are still fighting them 5 years later. Disclaimer #3: This post contains affiliate links. No ones else seems to give such a straight answer. I've tried a dozen times to transplant them 400 miles south to my garden and they seldom make it or at best last a couple of anemic years in my heavy clay. My master Self-seeding and fast-spreading. TESTIMONY: I planted spearmint in my vegetable/flower bed last year (1st time in new home!) Enjoyed your post! There were one or two that surprised me - mint (I am a seasoned landscaper). Ugh. The bane of my garden is spiderwort. st. johns wort and vinca will grow under them, so will sweet pea. I would never plant lamium as I've had it take over areas I've not yet gotten to. Eliminating most of the plants still provides for a good number the next year or so. My Daylilies are stuck against a cement wall - and are being dumb enough not to try growing out! Thanks for the encouragement! Any suggestions would be appreciated. I wanted to plant a big tree but our old sewer line would be below it. I first learned about mountain mint (Pycnanthemum spp.) Courtesy of my bird seed feeder. Discover the right perennial plants for your garden. You cant pull it up, its too deep. Didnt even know there were different types of Bachelor buttons (I love them and will try to find the ones that seed lol) Also those purple flowersthey sure are hardy, and the bees sure do love them OMG I have Prairie lilies and there is this HUMMINGBIRD that visits for mine my day lilies must be planted in a better spot then yours, they're still blooming. It is that invasive, 30 Perennials Youll Regret Planting in Your Zone 3 Garden. Personally, I think temperature, soil obviously - (I have heavy wet clay most areas or thin soil over bedrock) and a preference to what kind of garden you want, are the major criteria. Chives are the bane of my life. Apparently the only thing that kills them is drowning in water, so mine are no more. People sharing their experiences with plants that grow in their zones or invade the yard depending on where they live, soils and other factors. Prior owners put it in and it was 50 feet across the abutting s hool yard when I moved in. favorite/least favorite return! White with purple spotted flowers bloom in clusters at the end of stems from late spring into summer. So, if we can't overcome them, then let us welcome them help us fund the needy community members. Nepeta faassenii, 12 to 18 inches tall, 18 to 20 inches wide. The Orange daylilies, spiderwort and obedient plants have been a nightmare. Dont let the name fool you. I have Holly Hocks and have for the 7 years we have been here. After I pull up as much as I can. Same with Obedience plant and Bouncing Betty grrrrr It might take some trial and error, but I'm sure one of these aggressive plants should grow in your space. Conclusion. Malva is my most hated invasive plant. As its name implies, the catmint plant can be irresistible for cats. Why do you bother having a garden? One is "Primrose". During winter we do cut them down to the ground but they do come back every year. Sadly I have a terrible problem with daylillies. Clover is far more beneficial in a lawn than lawn grass is. But mind you never cut off any sucker from a root. Some behave very nicely. around the house. Is Catmint Invasive? One had to know how to manage your flowers and/or plants! Hi Kristin, this was great - but I think #2 photo is actually of the beautiful Japanese anemone 'Honorine Jobert', which in my zone 5 is a treasured perennial, not invasive at all. I loved the sweet flower and thought the more the better! (I'm not being sarcastic.) If I had my druthers I would love to do the main part of the lawn in irish moss as groundcover (yeah, here it takes off I've heard but its short and pretty enough to just be a soft short carpet) with a meandering path of flagstone and small to medium sized beds of color - mostly perrenials - here and there along the pathsa bench with an arbor ( and a flowering vining plant) over it and bubbler nearby off in one corner. It cost a little bit more but there is no waste and the squirrels and mice and rats are not as attracted. Glad you like it! Actually, butterflies are attracted to any flower with nectar. It is very 'curious' though and likes to explore. But the mint, yes, I'll give you that one. For instance, I planted soapwart for a few years ago and it has scattered on the wind. My personal love/hate relationship? I have used wood chip mulch for years and havent had to worry too much about plants reseeded too much. Oh good! Thanks again for a humorous, well-informed post. You still need to deadhead to prevent reseeding. Faassen who developed the first hybrids. While cats can propagate catmint unconsciously, not all species attract them. I prefer things here that grow up and keep the ground clear. I see another 10 i'd love to have..invasive or not ! These "Perennials" found new homes and we will be celebrating our Canada Day 150th Birthday! Should be illegal to sell this pretty little stinker. It sounds like you have Lambs ears. You will see some wilting of top growth within 36 hours, and it will take another 7-10 days for the problem plant to be well and truly dead. Hi Joan, I agree, the title is a bit misleading, but I did mention that I'm in zone 2/3 and this article was based on the experiences of my gardening group there. You totally forgot the # 1 worst plant, chameleon plant. Besides bindweed, I have a problem with the neighbors five cats using my garden as their bathroom. Never again. I want to put in groundcover. Yes thx for the info I wish I wouldn't have let the beauty fool me when I bought them but i did read in time for my mints lol they r in a pot I have a very little yard and I just bought 2 yarrows and 2 veronicas I told my husband I can't wait til next yr when they've established I also planted a vine and after reading this went out and looked around and albe darned if they're ain't 5 I planted 2 3 r babies lol well atleast I caught it in time for the mint thank u. I actually enjoy weeding - so relaxing and I get a chance to enjoy the birds, insects: hover flies, native bees, ladybirds, even a grub or three and the wee skinks etc etc. 17. I love sharing bouquets of daisies, irises, roses and day lilies with friends, and some of the plants such as clover and dandelion are pollinators for bees. I try to cut off the flowers to prevent seeding but it has deep underground roots and is trying to take over my vegetable garden. 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