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    Thread: DON'T Plant This! Most Invasive Plants

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      Quote Originally Posted by GloriaL View Post
      oooooh I had forgotten about the violets, they ARE real boogers.
      Wish I would have never planted them. Don't know how I will ever get rid of them. They are really pretty in the spring though....
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      Quote Originally Posted by JanR View Post
      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.
      They aren't quite the same as the trumpet vine is more a woody stem as it get's bigger.

      DH did find a spray that seems to be taking out the morning glory though!!

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      As y'all may know, violets make thousands of tiny little seeds and they can last for hundreds of years underground!

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      Quote Originally Posted by bigtylor View Post
      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.
      Because we flood irragate our yard, we also get wild violets in the yard. In the spring our yard is a sea of purple, its pretty at first, but a pain later. lol We also get wild mint in our yard. Thats another one that is hard to get rid of. Spray doesn't kill either one of these.

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      have violets planted where they can have at it.


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      wisteria vines. the sucker shoots are coming up everywhere. flowered last year for the 1st time and now the seeds are germinating, so new little plants are popping up all over.

      bittersweet vines. planted it many years ago. got rid of it pretty quickly, but the birds have been spreading it ever since. has lots of berries that birds love. every time i find a vine with an orange root i just want to kick myself.

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      MINT!!!! That is the only thing that has survived the hail storm. Everything else is wiped out.
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      I've found that wisteria is very invasive and will choke large trees. The vine can get huge and woody - several inches in diameter. Also red tip bushes - they start out as attractive shrubs, but send out runners and you can end up with a forest of trees from one bush - hate those things! I wish I had never planted them.

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      #1 invasive plant for me is Virginia Creeper, #2 is gout weed.

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      Funny about the Bermuda because I moved to Tulsa from Austin and couldn't believe people actually planted Bermuda here because in Austin its considered a weed and grows so fast and tall it is 3 feet high in a week.

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      Virginia creeper is very invasive here in NC, too. I like bermuda grass - wish my whole yard had it. It's very hardy and much easier to take care of than centipede or St. Augustine. I mostly have weed grasses in several areas, but when I mow them and they are green and blend in, I'm not too picky about it.

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      Quote Originally Posted by sworley View Post
      Virginia creeper is very invasive here in NC, too. I like bermuda grass - wish my whole yard had it. It's very hardy and much easier to take care of than centipede or St. Augustine. I mostly have weed grasses in several areas, but when I mow them and they are green and blend in, I'm not too picky about it.
      I'm with you on the grass thing. If it is green and covers the dirt I call it lawn. I just wish it would STAY OUT OF MY FLOWER BEDS!!!
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      I finally found the pic.
      Thanks for the pics! I'll never see any of those flowers!!
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      Quote Originally Posted by Noahsnana View Post
      Goose-neck loosestrife taking over a garden bed and Chameleon plant
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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
      I am adding another vote to get rid of the Chameleon plant, it will grow under water and under the cement here. And after one dormant winter it came up plain green and isn't even pretty anymore.
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      Black Berries! Yuck! They taste good but runners with thorns. Laughs at Round up.
      Try crossbow, it kills then dead and wont kill any grass or ferms.


      Quote Originally Posted by GloriaL View Post
      I'm with you on the grass thing. If it is green and covers the dirt I call it lawn. I just wish it would STAY OUT OF MY FLOWER BEDS!!!
      Same here, I am about to give up on flower beds and let the grass have everything and plant in pots and planters.


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      4o'clocks, honeysuckle, trumpet vine, ivy, bermuda, yarrow, mint, nut-grass...all these things are driving me to drink...roundup abounds at my house. This is where I dug bermuda and honeysuckle(2) up by hand...and one of those twist garden tools...so far so good!! Mint (1)
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      Same here creeper, ivy, trumpit , westeria completely took over at MIL's another to add would be honeysuckle


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      Quote Originally Posted by DoubleS View Post
      MINT!!!! That is the only thing that has survived the hail storm. Everything else is wiped out.
      I second that about the mint! I didn't plant just one plant, I planted three because I was afraid that it wouldn't do good!!!!! Boy was I wrong. It took over the flower bed, the yard around the flower bed and was even thriving in the gravel driveway!

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