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    Thread: DON'T Plant This! Most Invasive Plants

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      DON'T Plant This! Most Invasive Plants

      After a particularly aggravating weed-pulling session where I spent a lot of time alternately cursing the plants and me for buying them, I thought a list of everybody's worst nightmare of plants might be helpful to all of us.
      SO 1. Trumpet vine listed as great for hummingbirds-HA! mine has never bloomed, it never even grew where I planted it but sent runners through the flower bed. The vine breaks easily so it is nearly impossible to get it up by the roots. 15 years and I can't get rid of it!!
      2. Bermuda grass. It's fine if you put steel edging down three feet around all your flowers beds, otherwise.......... FUGEDDABOUTIT!!!!!

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      You dont even know half of the story about bermuda grass and trumpet vines if you want to know the whole story come to Gore. We invented them here. Sorry I had to say that.
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      If its worse than what I have I don't want to know about it!! It would put me in the loony bin!!!(My cooling off break is almost over, time to attack the flower beds again!)
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      I have trumpet vines at the top a my pine trees and growing through my roof around my chimney now thats worse and some of the vine are 3 inches thick.
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      Goose-neck loosestrife taking over a garden bed and Chameleon plant
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      Quote Originally Posted by GloriaL View Post
      After a particularly aggravating weed-pulling session where I spent a lot of time alternately cursing the plants and me for buying them, I thought a list of everybody's worst nightmare of plants might be helpful to all of us.
      SO 1. Trumpet vine listed as great for hummingbirds-HA! mine has never bloomed, it never even grew where I planted it but sent runners through the flower bed. The vine breaks easily so it is nearly impossible to get it up by the roots. 15 years and I can't get rid of it!!
      2. Bermuda grass. It's fine if you put steel edging down three feet around all your flowers beds, otherwise.......... FUGEDDABOUTIT!!!!!

      Add yours to the list!
      We have a weed here that is called Morning Glory, very similar to Trumpet vine. And its a pain in the neck to get rid of, once it takes hold. It literally will choke out other plants. Pulling it up doesn't help either, all you can do is spray it, kill whats on top, because it comes up somewhere else because it does put down roots along the vine.

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      AGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!!! I break mine off at the base of the chimney os I have dead vines on the side of the chimney but no wrapping!
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      Friend (I still call him that) gave me Chinese Pagoda plant and rootbeer plant - both invasive underground runners.
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      Amen to trumpet vine - mine has never bloomed either. I can't get rid of it. Also chameleon plant has taken over several flowerbeds. I keep pulling it up - I swear it grows again while I am sleeping


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      horsetail. It wouldn't grow in the pond so I planted. Grows under the concrete.

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      Quote Originally Posted by SouthernStarr View Post
      . Also chameleon plant has taken over several flowerbeds. I keep pulling it up - I swear it grows again while I am sleeping
      Mine grows in concrete...I will take a pic later
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      Our trumpet Vine is beautiful when it blooms. We just keep tearing it out where we don't want it. We also have to work at keeping the dwarf Chinese Lanterns and Black Eyed Susans from spreading everywhere.
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      Agree on the Horsetail

      Pennywort,... super invasive.

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      Black Berries! Yuck! They taste good but runners with thorns. Laughs at Round up.

      Ivy! Been slowly beating it back to 12 years I got it off the house, off the decks, off ground, now to get it off the fence. It's got stalks three inches thick.

      Pasaflora vine! You could watch it grow. The thing went under the house and came out the other side.


      My Trumpet Vine has been no problem at all. The frosts a few winters back knocked it pretty hard, but it's on the mend.

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      morning glorie here it just keeps coming back. I mow the blackberrys .
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      Find a farmer and use agriculture round up mixed strong on the smaller plants. Use a paintbrush too apply or small spritz bottle.

      Cut off offending larger trunks, brush straight brush killer on the stump or brush small suckers coming up.
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      Thanks for the suggestion. Mine is really entwined in my clematis, I'm kinda afraid to use any poison for fear of killing the clematis.
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      Quote Originally Posted by Noahsnana View Post
      Goose-neck loosestrife taking over a garden bed and Chameleon plant
      Ditto on the loosestrife. My ones that take over EVERYTHING are violets (UGH!), Creeping myrtle, Lily of the Valley, and Silver King Artemsia-ALL of which drive me crazy If I only had to pick one though it would definately be the violets. They grow right at the base of all my other plants and you can't pull them, you have to dig them out.
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      oooooh I had forgotten about the violets, they ARE real boogers.
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      In Alabama, cross vine. http://www.wildflower.org/plants/res...?id_plant=bica, is got to be the worst. Many runners, deep and very strong. Grows in on and through everything.

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