Top 5 Garden Plants I Wished I'd Never Planted || Collab with

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[@emmitstewart1921]

Your mention of Rosa rugosa reminds me of a bush hundreds of American farmers wish they had never planted, rosa multiflora. Back in the thirties through fifties, the American Department of Agriculture heavily promoted the idea of replacing the fences around fields with "living fences" of rosa multiflora. The multiflora rose is not thorny and grows as much as ten feet tall. The idea was to provide shelter for all sorts of small game and the little hips, which might number in the thousands on a single bush, would provide food for songbirds. If any farmer decided to take part in the program, the government would provide all the baby bushes he needed to start his fence growing. Huge numbers of baby multiflora roses were shipped out and planted around the country. At first, the plan was a huge success. The bushes were sturdy and grew rapidly. The hedge was so strong that no cow, bull, or horse could force its way through. Every spring the country saw masses of tiny white flowers, and every fall produced equally huge masses of tiny red hips, with songbirds swarming over the delicious food supply. That's when things went south. It seems that while the hips were edible, the seeds inside the hips were not. The seeds of the multiflora rose passed through the crop, stomach and intestines of any bird completely intact and fell safely to the ground.... all over the fields, pastures, along the roads, and even into the gardens. Within a few years, they became the worst invasive species in history with only the possible exception of the Ailanthus tree. For decades, whenever an Agricultural agent became too vociferous, someone would ask him about multiflora roses, and he would instantly turn red and shut up.

[@GardeningatDouentza]

What a horrific story! I'm sure a lot was learnt from the introduction of that rose on a wides scale, a lot in terms of environmental protection and long term testing. Wishing you a happy Sunday, free of invasive roses!

[@emkn1479]

Once I got more into gardening and learned the names and histories of plants I was so disillusioned, realizing that so many of the plants I associated with wild spaces and had fond memories of as a child are actually invasive species 🤦‍♀️ The multiflora rose is definitely on that list.

[@alexerz-geholz8924]

We Spanish kids (and I was one many, many years ago) grew surrounded by oleander/adelfas. We were taught they were poisonous but still we played with their leaves and flowers. The leaves made excellent fake bananas... and we have a couple of them in pots at home.

[@GardeningatDouentza]

How lovely to hear from you again after so long! I see you were a naughty child though 😂

[@debjanibhowmick5870]

I have plants irises and lilies… I love them.

[@GardeningatDouentza]

Good for you!

[@maryannlammersen6536]

I planted my rugosa at the top of my rock wall and it found its way down into and among the rocks and created quite a wild mess. I was not aware it would sucker like that! So out it came and today I found a bit has regrown! So now I need to root that out. The other plant that went crazy in our garden was the orange, very invasive alstromeria... many varieties are absolutely wonderful but this variety invadede 6 feet of garden space and I spent 2 years digging it out!

[@GardeningatDouentza]

Goodness, that alstroemeria sounds like a thug and Rosa rugosa doesn't surprise me. We live we learn!

[@gartmorn]

I have had negative experience with most of the plants featured on both videos! Main reason was inexperience and lack of homework first! My wife's favourite plant is probably Rosa rugosa but so far I've managed to convince her that there's enough growing wild locally and we don't really need it in our garden! 🤣

[@GardeningatDouentza]

You're doing well there, keeping Rosa rugosa out of the garden but I do understand where your wife's coming from. Yes, many familiar tales in these choices. Thanks for watching and have a great day!

[@garykandmimisgarden1662]

I agree with most of your choices and I can certainly see your point of view. You may want to try coppicing your Forsythia every 4 or 5 years. It keeps it low and manageable and fully engulfed in blooms. It is an extremely easy plant to propagate. I used to take my trimmings and just stick them in moist ground. 90% of them rooted. It was my grandmothers favorite plant. I recently had to sell my 4 acre garden(that I gardened in for 50+ years) due to ill health but I saved 4 cuttings from my Grandmothers original bush and it is still doing well.

[@GardeningatDouentza]

That's a good suggestion for my final surviving forsythia. When do you coppice it? After flowering?

[@laurenb6451]

Spanish Dagger: Yes my Dad got stabbed by this plant while innocently walking by one in Florida. Took him forever to recover. I also have chosen not to grow forsythia but I did just get one of the Kumson cultivars which in my experience aren’t so vigorous. I won’t grow any kind of lysamachia, bishopweed, chocolate eupatorium, Montauk Daisy ….

[@GardeningatDouentza]

Sorry to hear about your dad. That sounds awful. Those leaves are dangerous!

[@olsonlr]

Yup I pulled my yuccas out and threw them out in the woods where they continue to grow

[@GardeningatDouentza]

The divils! Let's see how my yucca patch does without its yuccas!

[@rose2fame1]

Hi Rachel, great video, loved the explanation of your dislike of the daggers on yucca and Rosa regosa. Good info to know.

[@GardeningatDouentza]

Glad you enjoyed the video l. I know you love roses but there are so many types out there!

[@greenthumb1658]

My, God! I live in a deadly town! We have lots of yuccas, lots of oleander trees in our city greenery 😬

[@GardeningatDouentza]

😂

[@greenthumb1658]

yeah, yeah, that yucca plant! In our city it is used as decorative plant in city borders and flower beds. Oh mine! Yes, it is very decorative, but those spines! And they are not noticeable! And very sharp and strong! Once I decided to smell the flowers - hardly escape poking my eye! When that swords are close to me I always worry about darkness and drunk people, it's very dangerous. This plant should be planted in places to protect them from penetration with a note "Danger! Evil plants! "

[@GardeningatDouentza]

Watch out for those leaf tips. They really are lethal!

[@jagdishbahia9162]

Hi Rachel, many thanks for the great video❤️❤️ I never plant a roses in my garden. So much hard work to look after them. Rhododendrons and Hydrangeas are my favourites🌹🌹

[@GardeningatDouentza]

I would tend to have the same opinion as you. I love rhodos and hydrangeas. Thanks for watching and sharing and enjoy what's left of your Sunday.

[@desertplantsofavalon]

Fantastic collab video Rachel :-D it has been very helpful about knowing what garden plants are best to be avoided and I loved watching both yours and Una's video, Hans and I are planning on buying a new house next year via co ownership and looking forward to what garden plants we want to be planting and now know we will definitely not be planting these plants haha, I remember as a child my Mother planting a beautiful Salix babylonica 'Weeping Willow' and it grew into the most beautiful tree, but over time the roots started to grow under the house and we had tiles lift off from our kitchen floor, and we had to cut it down and me and Mum were gutted, Hans planted a couple of leylandii in our tiny front garden when we first moved here in Belfast, but already they are taking over haha, thanks so much Rachel and Una for sharing, and sending lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER from Hans and me from Belfast to Wexford XXXX

[@GardeningatDouentza]

That is one very exciting project you have coming up, Lyn. Very happy for you both. Sending love and kisses xx

[@MultimediaIreland]

Great video, your mentioning of pruning and potential pain from pricks reminded me of my own pruning problems of the last year, I love to listen to podcasts as I'm pruning and I keep snipping the headphones' cable as I work away, lol. My neighbour has the Rosa rugosa, I love taking photos of it. That Yucca seems to be popular in the Suir Valley as I'm seeing it more and more in front gardens as I pass, it really is a striking plant.

[@GardeningatDouentza]

Oh no! Poor headphones 🎧

[@tippysdaddy7468]

Hi Rachel great video, thanks to Una for the collaboration. I love Rosa Rugosa, although just have 2 in my garden. The plant I wish I had never planted is Silene Dioica, I have the golden one, which I like however, it doesn't always come true from seed, it seeds everywhere, right through my entire garden. Every Springtime I spend a lot of time pulling the seedlings up

[@GardeningatDouentza]

Ah, I have that silene too and it is a spreader but isn't as ravenous here as it is for you, thankfully. Thanks for watching and happy growing.

[@greenthumb1658]

"Rosa rugosa" sounds like a taunt, a mockery😀

[@GardeningatDouentza]

😂

[@bill-hunter]

Leylandii is one of my pet hates in gardens for all the reasons mentioned and several other not mentioned. I love the tree, but despise the hedges and as a tree is how it should be grown.

[@GardeningatDouentza]

I think Úna was in complete agreement with you on this. It's rough to inherit such a hedge though, as many do.

[@FernandaNascimentoOrchids]

Oh goodness, I sure relate to some of those mentioned here. Oleander!!! When I decided to pull mine out I actually cried, it was so hard😜. I have a Forsythia, I love yellow flowers. I prune it heavily after blooming and it grows all through summer. Getting to blooming time it is getting as huge as I can allow it to and ready to be pruned again. Yucca, I was wise to move it to a raised bed I planted outside my walls with large succulents 🤣. But I have a variegated one in the garden, if I can keep it low she is allowed to stay, otherwise I will give it away. Great vídeo, Rachel, wonderful advices. Looking forward to check on the other ones.

[@GardeningatDouentza]

I think we have touched on a lot of the difficult plants out there but all our experiences are slightly different. Thanks, Fernanda, and happy gardening.

[@michaelmccarthy4077]

Ah, Forsythia, the one and only plant I know of whose pollen I am allergic to. Rosa rugosa was banned for planting in many states in the US because it is not only a noxious weed but a carrier for a wilt that affects a number of native plants. I think the state of Iowa has spent some 50 million USD trying to get rid of it.

[@GardeningatDouentza]

50 million! My efforts pale in comparison 😂

[@ammorales1524]

Thank you for this helpful video. I don’t have any of these plants featured in my garden, but I have a few candidates myself which I have removed and some I have tried to control. It’s a constant vigil on my part but that is the only way I can get ahead with it. One plant that I love because of its glaucous leaves and chartreuse bracts in late winter is the euphorbia characias but it reseeds itself everywhere and I have been pulling seedlings from all nooks and crannies in my garden. I have pulled out many already and chucked them. I am always inspecting every bracts for signs of seeds and cutting them off before they start cracking their seeds out. I do love the flowers though😕

[@GardeningatDouentza]

Sounds like a love-hate relationship with that euphorbia. I guess we all have plants like that that we are prepared to put a bit of work into!

[@wandashaw3551]

Beautiful, but deadly!!! Wow.

[@GardeningatDouentza]

Some aren't so deadly, just a bit annoying 😂

[@trafficface]

I hade the first one. I took great satisfaction in hacking it back then using a massive metal pole to lever it out

[@GardeningatDouentza]

I can imagine how that might have been necessary. I found the yucca less hard to remove than the forsythia though!

[@TheEnthusiasticGardener]

Hello Rachel and what a lovely surprise to see you with Una, my two favourite Irish ☘️ ladies 😊 and thank you both for alerting me to steer clear of all of these, particularly the oleander. I truly dislike all hedges too 😡 and the spikes on yukkas. I don’t care for forsythia either. What lengths you went to in removing it 🤣 🚗 this was a lovely collaboration 😊

[@GardeningatDouentza]

Thank you, Jeanette. We all have our pet hates but we learn as we go

[@kathymacomber5115]

My bane is the Horsetail bamboo

[@GardeningatDouentza]

So awful

[@patdelaney191]

I have a yucca with the dagger tips, all I do as new leaves grow, is just snip off the spike 🙂

[@GardeningatDouentza]

Not sure I would want that look in my garden but thanks for sharing

[@kerry4741]

Great information! The link to Granny's Garden is saying the video is unavailable.

[@GardeningatDouentza]

I have amended it. Here's a copy of the link too kzbin.info/www/bejne/a33FgpZtqNhmbLM It's always a problem to get a workable link for a scheduled video before it goes live.

[@lisabetts4237]

Good luck in getting rid of the yucca… 😝 you may swear you got all the root but the smallest chunk will regrow!

[@GardeningatDouentza]

Bit like Rosa rugosa then? I'll just have to keep at it.

[@g.blackwell4163]

Forsythia I love ❤️

[@GardeningatDouentza]

Good for you!

[@thisperson113]

Rosa rugosa cultivation has been made illegal to plant in some countries due to its ability to naturalize.

[@GardeningatDouentza]

It is the civil 😱

[@LostInThisGardenofLife]

Oh my goodness I have most of these planted in my garden and I agree with them all. They’re beautiful but a thorn in my side… especially that Rosa Rugosa. 🤣

[@GardeningatDouentza]

We all live and learn. Thanks for sharing and have a great evening.

[@pal98111]

Sasa palmata. Palm leaf bamboo. Slow growing but gradually picks up vigor. I would recommend only keeping it potted. It needs grooming to look it’s best and large drifts were not that attractive in my Zone 7/8 garden in Atlanta. The leaves usually has some flaws and not as handsome in the the landscape. Rhizomes are very tough.

[@GardeningatDouentza]

Thanks for the warning!

[@Veronica-je9qj]

Yucca! Another battle I am still fighting to this day. Those roots come up the size of a sweet potato. It just looks terrible in flower and out here in Zone 7 (New York).

[@GardeningatDouentza]

The roots are fairly rude 😂

[@cristinaarcese4238]

Ciao!

[@GardeningatDouentza]

Ciao, Cristina

[@King_of_carrot_flowers]

Alstromeria 'Apollo'. I swore I would never use poisons in the garden but this one broke me-not that roundup has succeeded in killing this plant or anything, nor has digging it out down to the subsoil. I am going to try putting a membrane over the area for a couple of years to smother it, but I'm not optimistic.

[@GardeningatDouentza]

Yikes, sounds dangerous!!!

[@MrFkoller]

I have to admit I'm lucky that I don't have too many regrets, but I have to say Thumbergia alata is a nightmare once it starts seeding around everywhere in the garden, absolutely regret planting it willingly and now having to weed some every day and pulling it down from trees and shrubs it grasps and covers :/ Another is a Phormium hedge I planted. It's sooooo difficult to dig out, I hope I never have to dig the whole hedge, it can grow where it is, but I won't transplant them ever :s maybe I'll have to divide them.

[@MrFkoller]

Now that I think of it the other plant is Dalia imperialis :o I love the blooms, but the plant itself is quite difficult to manage, it grows into a small tree every year and the seeds float everywhere and sprout all along the lawn and in flowerbeds and they burry their tubers deep, so it's not easy to pull out :/

[@GardeningatDouentza]

What an interesting list. Many people had big problems here in Ireland in 2010 when we had a terrible winter and everyone's phormiums died. They are impossible to dig out, all right! Interesting what you say about Dahlia imperialis. Mine has never flowered so I have no problem with seedlings. Did you see the collab I did with the Horti-Culturalists recently? In their half of the collab, on their channel, I talk extensively about my experience with tree dahlias and Stephen shows all the great ones he grows. Imperialis is a bit of a brute!

[@MrFkoller]

@@GardeningatDouentza Haven't seen that colab, I'll head now to see it. Dalia imperialis is native here in the highlands of Costa Rica, both the white and the pink/purple varieties. I've seen even Monty Don has trouble flowering it because it needs such a long growing season to be able to bloom :/

[@GardeningatDouentza]

@@MrFkoller Lucky you, then. Yes, that is my problem with Dahlia imperialis too. Here's a link to that video... kzbin.info/www/bejne/eXexc4F7hs2IiNU

[@Veronica-je9qj]

Forsythia! Never again. I had a battle removing all those roots and shoots. Oh, no. Never more!

[@GardeningatDouentza]

Sounds like we have been fighting many of the same battles 😅

[@faunalife2906]

Oleander as well as being very toxic and having a strong root system, actually isn't even that good for pollinators either, I read online recently that it doesn't produce any nectar in its flowers and just fools the bees through its attractive flowers into thinking it has nectar. Rosa rugosa is a great looking plant but yes prickles and suckering roots can be annoying.

[@GardeningatDouentza]

All true 🌼💮🌸

[@faunalife2906]

@@GardeningatDouentza Oleander does have 1 big wildlife benefit in Southern Europe though, caterpillar foodplant of the oleander hawkmoth.

[@be6715]

It may be not so much that the plants are bad, but perhaps your use of them were less than ideal. Right plant, right place is important to consider and HARD to do. Not that I haven't made such poor choices myself - and I'll continue to do so. Hence are the wages of experimentation. Which as gardeners, I would always encourage. Not much fun to always have things perfect - and perfect doesn't happen too often in a garden anyway! :)

[@GardeningatDouentza]

I never said the plants were bad just that they weren't for my garden 😂

[@BBQNBLUES]

ANY type of Rose is Not allowed in my yard... Besides the Constant Spraying & Pruning it's just not worth the effort. Speaking of Yucca's here in the States they are used in Zero water landscapes (like around Petrol stations in a gravel bed) I too made the mistake of planting 2 by my Greenhouse door.. know what you mean about stabby planrs. Ever grown a "Mahonia Holley "? They too are Vicious !

[@kathymacomber5115]

Have you tried the Knock out rose? No spraying or pruning

[@GardeningatDouentza]

I tend to agree with you on roses although I do have a few.

[@GardeningatDouentza]

My mahonias are tucked away where they interfere less, maybe a bit too much as I seldom get their scent.

[@jammosu6498]

Had a teacher who once said they call it yucca for a reason! Yuk!

[@GardeningatDouentza]

😂

[@Fabdanc]

My top 5: 5: Canna -- too much maintenance to keep looking nice (go for turmeric or a banana if you want the leaves and structure); 4: Hemerocallis -- it is a waste of money and also just a blah plant; 3: catharanthus roseus -- tolerates intense heat and humidity just fine, reseeds everywhere and not beneficial to pollinators, but attracts mealybugs; 2: boxwood -- any of them... they are just, blah; 1: NANDINA -- crazy invasive here in Texas, birds eat the berries but the berries are toxic;

[@GardeningatDouentza]

What an interesting set of choices. Definitely a list from a different climate. Thanks for sharing and happy battling!

[@carmellacarey3553]

Yea Rachel the infamous regosa I saw one in my church friends garden and said I want that and she gave me a funny puzzeled look and then said ok and ripped me a piece out and said "here ya go" and you call it big ugly spiney nakid spider I call it spwan of saiton 💮🏵🌹👹

[@GardeningatDouentza]

🤣😂🤣

[@olsonlr]

Never prune a forsythia

[@GardeningatDouentza]

That is one school of thought