Invasive shrub with pink pea like flowers, bristly stem
dandy_line (Z3b N Cent Mn)
4 years ago
This is starting to invade my land from the woods. I don't like it.
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peren.all Zone 5a Ontario Canada
4 years agoRelated Discussions
The cabbage, cauliflower, lettuce and peas seem to like it but--
Comments (12)Lots of rain here, too. But I'm still grateful for it, we have been at drought or near-drought conditions for 6 of the past seven years. If it keeps coming down, I won't have much of a garden, but the watertable might finally get replenished. DH's lettuce has been doing just fine in the coldbed, although an invasion of slugs made a lot of leaves disappear. I reminded him to put the coffee grounds around the plants, so the new leaves are now growing perfect. He has a mental glitch about the coffee, applying after a slug attack and then not again until another invasion and another reminder. The peas are starting to bloom. The potatoes are growing faster than I can keep the stems covered. No cabbage, kale, or cauliflower. These normally are grown by DH and this year he didn't start any seeds, and it's been too wet to seed directly. I guess I'll see if any of the local nurseries have cabbage plants. It feels strange to be in the middle of May and most of the garden still looks like winter. It's just been too wet to get it ready for the seedlings....See Morenon-rated invasive companion plants
Comments (56)I have a north facing hillside that I'd prefer to not have to weed. Bermuda grass and sheep sorrel (two really horrible rhizome spreading nightmares) are endemic in my neighborhood. So I've planted all tough plants that can compete back, and with each other. Some posters complain about rudbeckia black eyed Susans being invasive, but mine are struggling against the evening primrose and Bermuda grass: This was in May, when the primrose was all in bloom. Now daisies and echinacea are blooming, and they are too large to go down in the sea of invasives. The grasses as well are quite tough and hold their own. Gaura is the one plant I wish I could get to thrive here, but it's had trouble. Summer heat and drought tends to beat down the smaller invasives and lets the larger, tough grasses and coneflowers and daisies cement their place. I've released mint on this hill, as we churn through the fresh herb for cooking, but it has had trouble taking off. A month later, the beginnings of the echinacea flowers:...See MoreHAVE: new fragrant perennials & shrubs
Comments (5)Hi again, If you are interested in some of my seeds, please give me your trade list and your email address so that I can contact you. I am not interested in SASE. I donate most of my extra seeds to my "Seeds for Classrooms" program that I arranged with the local school board and schools (6,000 pkg a couple months ago). Other extra "useful" vegetable and herb seeds get donated to disaster relief organizations. Hope to hear from you about your seeds for zone 3 hardy and interesting perennials and shrubs. Happy Gardening...See MoreLantana - Still Considered Invasive?
Comments (24)Yes, I believe you can root a cutting of Lantana. At least with L. montivedensis. I tried during the spring when mine was putting out lots of new growth. As more an experiment than anything, I put 4 cuttings in water and watched them. Three dried out and died in about a week. The fourth put out roots, but didn't transplant well into soil. Having said that, I am extremely new to gardening and there was probably a ton of 'user error' on my part. I did not use rooting hormones on my cuttings but simply put them straight into the water. I also did not have my rain buckets at that time and so was using water from the tap, which for where I am, is very heavy with calcium. There were probably a number of other things I did wrong that I am not even aware of. But the partial success of that fourth cutting makes me fairly confident that it can be done successfully and I will be giving it another shot the next time I see new growth coming from my planted ones....See More
Jay 6a Chicago
4 years ago
gardengal48 (PNW Z8/9)
4 years agodandy_line (Z3b N Cent Mn)
4 years agolast modified: 4 years agoJay 6a Chicago
4 years agolast modified: 4 years ago
Why isn't my whole comment up on the billboard dammit? I guess I meant it's original native range, now wiki says it's mostly native to the southeast, but bonap has it listed as being native in Minnesota, except for 1 southern county where it's considered 'present and exotic', so this OP's plant would be more northerly, so technically this species DOES belong there (from an original native range viewpoint), but it doesn't belong 'there' because Dandy hates it. Is it the bristles Dandy? Of course it's a north American native so it can't technically be called invasive, can it? I believe every person on the planet has the right to grow it if they so choose! I might give it a whirl myself, but I already have quite a few awesomw native legumes that are more local ecotypes. My opinions don't come into conflict with my wallet, so I can pretty much stick to my ideals.
Embothrium
4 years agolast modified: 4 years agoJay 6a Chicago
4 years ago
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