What plants won't you grow again? Are you horrified by any on my list?

If you ever feel stupid about accidentally planting a pest. Just know I planted spearmint, peppermint, and lemon balm all in the same garden bed. 😂😅 Hope that makes someone feel better lol

Beware of plants in a private sale where someone has a ton of them potted up. Ask yourself why.

I have a simple rule in gardening. Plant what makes you happy.

I'm thrilled when anything lives

Morning glories 20 years still pulling out the runners 😡

We had lily of the valley when I was growing up. My dad was a gardener. He had it planted at the edge of the woods. It was lovely there, needed absolutely no care and the lawn mower kept it from spreading into the yard. It was just fine at the edge of the woods and was beautiful there.

I feel like everyone has that one plant that sends them into an uncontrollable, blinding petty rage. It’s like a rite of passage for every gardener 🤣

Somebody might pull my southern card but crepe myrtle is my nemesis!! Our rivalry is so next level…. I’ve tried to decimate their numbers and they’ve fought back with their strappy, switchy limbs and endless roots and shoots. Many tears, some crepe murder, and one corneal abrasion later….not much has changed. They’re still out there. Laughing at me.

Mint. Enough said.

It’s never a “mistake” it’s a learning curve🤣

Bamboo and pampas grass. Our neighbor has these two things plants right next to our fence and they spread like crazy. They’re invasive and hard to kill. In fact, if you try to chop it back or kill it, it just grows back more aggressively. Also, bulb plants spread and are hard to dig out.

I love Lily of the Valley, but I have learned how to tame it. We put a patio by the side of our house. There was a 4" gap between it and the fence. I put a piece of metal edging under the fence. Placed the flowers between the two and let it fill in the area. And now eight years later they are still contained. Did this with some mint also, and so far it has stayed corraled.

Vinca major. I took a small clump from my mother’s garden to help fill in my new garden space when I bought our home. It has been 20 years of trimming and yanking just to keep it contained within a space surrounded by concrete. It even overtook mint!

Snow on the mountain. I'm still digging it up after 8 years

I love daylilies. I had a bigger garden and it was relaxing for me after work to groom the plants and see how everything was doing. I would often dead head the daylilies at sundown so the next day there weren't dead blooms hanging. I like to fuss😊.

Erin, thank you for giving us permission to not like certain plants to grow in our gardens!! I realize it's a very personal decision, but we have the right to spend money, work, time, sweat on plants that do WELL for us and make us happy. I personally do not like hot colored flowers in red, orange, hot yellow. I'm in Texas, and it's already hot enough without adding hot colors. Also, I'll never grow plants that spread or reseed aggressively....too much work. I've learned to be careful of plants that friends are too eager to share...they are often very aggressive, that's why they have so much of it to give away.

Nurseries need to take part of the blame. They need to be upfront to the general public on what can be invasive in their area and clearly mark it as such. Either invasive due to runners, rhizomes, re seeding etc Invasives can cause such a big problem with our native plants being choked out . Most people wont do what is needed to eradicate a bully in the garden. If people were informed they could make a decision about that plant as they are shopping for one.

Twilight Evening Primrose and I are about to have words. I’m the kinda guy who always feels the need to divide and propagate my perennials because I’m a poor, and boy was I played the fool. This primrose done danced her way ALL over the place, and my idiot self has unleashed the beast.

I usually watch You Tube on the television so don't make or read comments. Today was the exception. Your video sounded like I think, so I found a way to subscribe and found you and your commenters on the computer. What a hoot! I am 78 but we moved into a new build home last year after escaping from Florida, retirement nightmare. I physically have to depend on gardener/ grass cutter help now but the comments sent me down memory road. From the hill by the driveway in Ohio where I planted English ivy and spent into my late middle age tugging out the mess while dodging snakes and spiders to the gorgeous hydrangeas under my white pines that would not turn blue enough until the last fatal amendment dose which left them dead the next morning. The rose garden was expensively fenced by my husband to the height of 8 to 12 feet that overnight became the deer Olympic training high jump site leaving the roses eaten to the ground by morning. I left my patchy impatiens to my eighty something Dad to care for when we took a vacation. Upon returning the stinkers were two feet high mounds and gorgeous. I laughed so hard at you and your commenters and now I am smiling at all these memories. This new house is in Mid North Carolina and I am afraid I am heading down the same path. I stopped at one fancy garden center and was trying to buy some substantial sized trees as recommended by our sweet realtor and was informed the garden center would charge extra for delivery to our more rural area. They also wouldn't talk about choices unless we met with the design department which required a $3500.00 budget base to begin with. The next center I approached informed me they do not sell pines, which I am looking for, because "people don't want them". We are in the big forest areas around Chapel Hill/Pittsboro which are mainly Loblolly Pines. My husband and I sat in the car and laughed until tears ran down our face. Thank you Erin

Japanese Knotweed. My god, once that takes hold in the garden it's like Day Of The Triffids in the blink of an eye.

I live in the mountains in AZ. I grateful if ANYTHING grows. Very few plants are invasive here.

Boy Erin you really sparked conversation on this topic. We all have planted things that we wished we had not. You are right that we should only have plants in our garden that we love and get rid of those that we don't and don't feel guilty about it! Gardening should make us happy not regretful.

I spent three seasons digging every damn daylilly out of my property! I'm with you.

I absolutely LOVE common daylilies!!! So beautiful!!

Lamium anyone? And whoever planted Star of Bethlehem on my property, however many owners ago, will forever feel my wrath. Erin - please make your next video “plants/shrubs/trees I can’t live without!” Love your honest, humor and knowledge (however that’s been obtained - lol)

Yucca. Those suckers never die!

I've never planted it, but I've worked for years to get it out of my garden/yard -- Sumac -- Tree of Heaven. Painful!!!

Anyone growing daylilies and doesn't like them is either growing the wrong varieties or not giving them ideal conditions or care. Erin, I see pulled out some ugly unruly ones I wouldn't keep either, but that doesn't make them all bad. It just means you don't know enough about daylilies to be successful growing them.

Wisteria, never ever again.

I'm so happy to hear you say you don't like Potentilla. I've been trying to love my shrubs for years and you have just given me permission to rip it out. Fabulous!!

I love Coreopsis! Most of those native plants spread as they do in nature! I have a bunch of Cup Plant that spreads everywhere too, but I think the good outweighs the bad!

I call day lillies "gas station lillies". Here in Chicago suburbs, all gas stations have the stella d'oro yellow colored daylillies mass planted in beds by the curb! I don't feel like planting and growing it which in my mind is gas station decor😂

I’m with you on Daylilies.

Oh no not the beautiful day lilies! These are my favs!

Sweet Woodruff takes over a bed in a few years, I pulled it all out last year.

Rose of Sharon. We had a neighbor that planted it once and it popped up all over our lawn, in our garden beds, even the window well for our basement. Lovely flowers but not worth the trouble!

Personally I like to think of daylilies as an ornamental grass that occasionally gets pretty blooms on it.😊

Oxalis-purple shamrock! Still comes up 25 years later.

My dad had a patch of Lilly of the valley. He dug, he sprayed, he cussed a lot. Oregon 8a east facing. It loved it there and didn’t want to leave. I have a clump of it that I wisely have not put in the ground. I have orange daylilies that you just gave me permission to dig out. I was sick of all of the work without much return. I have one that was from my dad, lemon lily, it has a small profile. When it's time to divide, I won't have guilt for getting rid of the excess. Thank you! 😉 A variegated one I have wisely kept in a pot is Bishops weed/Smoke on the mountain. At my other place it took over! My neighbor has it everywhere. I'm not letting that genie out of the bottle again! I also have a vinca that might just go into a hanging pot or planter. I have very limited space here, and don't want to fight with it here. Another one that I love for texture and contrast is lambs ears. I'm keeping it trimmed, but it may become invasive too. Thanks for permission! On the morrow the daylilies meet their fate. 😂

That point about day lilies- it's so true! and it applies to all design mediums; if you don't like it, you don't have to live with it. I live in the Central Oregon high desert, and we're converting all of our landscaping to native plants, and there's so much Oregon Grape. Is it hearty? Yes. Does it have visual interest with its yellow flowers and burgundy leaves in the fall? Yes. Is it native? Yes. Do I like it? NO! the leaves are sharp, and I just think it's ugly. I wrestled with taking it out for so long, because it's adapted to here, but you know what else is? SO MANY OTHER NATIVE PLANTS! That I like! So now I'm gleefully removing it, and putting in things I think are beautiful, that are just as meant to be here. Live your own life, friends!

I despise barberry bushes. I moved into an old home two years ago, that had 17(!) very mature, overgrown barberry bushes. Absolutely massive with the prickliest thorns, the thin needle like ones that'd be an absolute pain to get out if were to get stuck inside your fingertips. My FIL at my request to remove them instead decided to trim them. Releasing countless, short & thorny cuttings all over into my largest bed. I still get stuck by some of the leftover trimmings and I curse him every time. I've cut down most of the bushes, killed them with herbicide, or dug out smaller ones but some of them still come back. When the bush does die, the remaining roots will throw up a smaller plant a few feet away. I caaaaaaaant with these plants.

Oh Erin, I knew immediately what I am never growing again (and I tell my friends not to like some kind of disciple). TRUMPET VINE. My mother planted it more than 50 years ago, tried but never could get it to bloom, so years later I built a pergola, slipped it up over it, and it bloomed, and it grew and grew and grew. Everything under pergola had nasty dying orange spent blooms, it grew vines bigger than my thighs!!! I had a guy with a chain saw take it down to the ground, put vine and stump killer on the stumps, dug up roots as long as 30 feet.. 25 years later it's still coming up literally all over my yard including my cement drive at least 50 feet from where it was!!! Also have to include ornamental oregano...not that pretty and grew enormous in 1 season, that's gone.

anything in the mint or ajuga family, I will run from, it even moves into your grass and takes over the grass.

Morning glory, seeds everywhere.

I have killed every butterfly bush I’ve tried growing. Never again. My mom had a “flower” growing in her beds she called “Grandma’s Flower” because she got it from my dad’s mom (my grandma). She hated it because it was so invasive. My mom gave me a peony several years ago from her yard and who do you think came along for the ride? Grandma’s Flower - ugh! Lo and behold I’m watching this video and the very first “flower” you show is Grandma’s Flower! I got that peony from my mom probably 20 years ago and that %#+$& plant is still haunting me!

Clustered bellflower-gorgeous saturated dark purple blooms captivated me, but it had plans to take over the world. It was in cahoots with my lily of the valley I’m fairly sure.😂

Somehow Star of Bethlehem popped up in my garden. I thought the flowers were so sweet. Within a few years the grassy texture of the leaves were popping up EVERYWHERE; even in the grass. I've been working towards eradicating it for years but it's definitely a work in process.

Please allow me to add 3 more disasters to your list: 1) Leptospermum scoparium (Tea Tree), beautiful in bloom, but an unsightly naked mass of dead gray twigs for most of the year -- ripped it out in 6 months. 2) Passion Flower, beautiful blooms, foliage, and delicious fruit. Without constant hard pruning, curly tendrils led its vines to dominate everything in sight, including neighbor's yards in just a few years. 3) Viola papilionacea (Wood 10:22 Violet), adorable ground cover from local nursery. Little gremlins spread like wildfire, edging out a large radius of all other plants at an alarming rate. YEARS to eradicate, but continues to pop up from time to time. Thank for allowing me to vent. Agree 101% on daylilies! The blooms do not last long enough to justify the unsightly foliage. It took me forever to dig them all out of my garden.

Virginia Creeper. The homeowner before us planted it along our fence, which it completely ruined, and the fencing company took a full extra day to replace our fence because the roots were so woody and thick several feet down. I went to the mattresses fighting back volunteers for years before and since, and they still pop up 5 years on. I hate it with the heat of a thousand suns.

As my garden matures, I realize there are so many better options for my limited space. Day lilies gone...replaced with anemones. Lily of the Valley, which took over and started eating my other plants, gone! Dug up the pips, covered with cardboard & mulch for one season...and it worked. Placed potted up containers on top for one season. Many years ago, planted chocolate mint...we all know how that went! 🙄🤣 Great video, your content is always timely.

If I stopped yanking maple saplings out I would be living in a dark maple forest because of the seed production of one mature tree. If I stopped cutting wisteria the maple forest would be woven through with wisteria vine. The blackberry and the honeysuckle wouldn't care, they would find a way, and so would the bamboo which just grows as tall as it has to, which now that I think of it is also what the cherry laurel does.

Jupiters beard. I’ve never heard anything about these flowers except for in my yard. Took one of those garden house tours that you paid to go on and this lady had them and so I love them went and bought them at Home Depot for five bucks each. They are everywhere. They take over front yard backyard to dig them up. They have roots like big fat carrots so they’re not easy to get out. And you look at your ground and there are hundreds of little tiny plants that you’re constantly pulling out. The other thing that I planted is called purple rose locust tree. absolutely beautiful purple pink flowers but after that, they are a menace. I clean hundreds of leaves a day no matter what the season of course fall is the worst even though I live in San Diego. They have starters all over my yard that I constantly have to cut off dig out. I wish they would tell you this before you bought them.

My hellebores are crowding out my Lily of the Valley, which never bloomed well anyway.

Lemon balm! Put it the middle of a flower garden because I liked the smell. However, that thing spreads like crazy! Also love-in-a-mist. I really like it but it spreads like crazy too. I’m pulling out my daylilies this year just because they no longer “bring me joy” lol plus the deer eat all the blooms!

I am totally with you about creeping bellflower AND Lily of the Valley!

I collect daylilies, and LOVE them, The foliage can get a little ratty late in the summer, but I just groom them. The best thing to do with daylilies is to plant spring flowering bulbs in between them, they bloom before the daylilies get tall, and then the daylilies cover up the dying foliage of the bulbs. Perfect combo. And they do NOT require dividing. The only flower that requires that is iris. Dayliliy, Hosta, can remain in place for decades without the bloom being reduced. The species, Hemerocallis fulva (orange tiger liliy) will spread everywhere, as opposed to the fancy hybrids, which are just clump forming... BUT it has it's purpose!! I am a landscape contractor and plant it all the time, it works beautifully for erosion control on steep banks, or in areas where you need something that is tough as nails, like median islands with no irrigation. For isntance, I planted it for a customer that had a 30 degree slope between his driveway and his neighbors, too steep to mow, only 6 foot wide, completely surrounded by asphalt on all 4 sides. It worked beautifully, held the ground from washing away, choked out all weeds, and is VERY low maintinence. So the species has it's place, just not in a mixed flower bed.

Rose of sharon re seeds everywhere, Solomon seal is a thug and ditch/ tiger lillies never die and stop blooming after so many years in the same spot!

I grew up in southern Indiana where redbuds ran wild and were the pinnacle of spring. Now in I'm in Minnesota, zone 4b, and am determined to grow cold tolerant varieties to recapture some of that magic. I'm just not ready to give up just yet.

Pretty much agree with all. I only plant Zagreb Coreopsis, ALL the others stink! They die, they spread, they look awful. Zagreb is a tried and true cultivar. Hate Potentilla. I use St Johns Wort in my designs instead. I'm a huge daylily fan but you are so right. If you don't like a plant, don't have it!! Some plants I won't grow: Sedum (we have a wilt disease in Illinois soils that will wipe them out, they flop, they are ugly), Roses. Yes I said it. PITB!!! The Japanese beetles attack them 24/7 and I'm tired of trying to keep blooms on so I ripped them all out. Buddleia. Doesn't survive our winters and I'm done replanting every year. Hellebores. Hate them lol! All their flowers point down and it's like the plant is giving me the cold shoulder. Don't understand the hype AT ALL! Salvia and Cat's Pajamas catmint. I no longer have any Salvia and ripped out the one insanely expensive CP catmint because they bloomed for a couple weeks and then done. Gotta do better than that in my yard! I have Walker's Low and love every single day of blooms it gives me without fail, alllll season long! That's most of them. Thankfully there are millions I do love and enjoy in the garden!!

Day lilies, definitely. Last winter, the deer dug up and ate most of the day lilies -- roots and all -- that my great-aunt had planted in our yard fifty years ago, and I was grateful, as I've never had the heart to remove them myself.

I'm with you on the daylilies but for another reason: the deer eat the heck out of them; I so rarely get to see a bloom! I chucked many of them into the compost pile, and they come up, but no blooms. It no longer irritates me quite so much. The same goes for Hostas because the all-night-deer-buffet is unchecked. The other plant I won't grow again is Photinia. I had to cut out 4 really big ones because an aggressive fungus consumed them. Roses have begun to annoy me pretty badly, too; the maintenance, and the creatures that like the eat them, are starting to eclipse the joy I get out of their blooms. (I hate Japanese Beetles!)

Siberian Iris. I was given a single tiny tuber by a "friend" and three years later it's absolutely massive, crowding out all other perennials anywhere near it. I'm sure it's lovely where it has space to roam, but my small garden is not the place for it. Also Silene Vulgaris, inherited a garden where it was planted and have been battling it for years.

And, like all gardeners, the ever open-to-future-possibilities of, "probably never". We're such optimists. 😆

Here in coastal California near Tomales Bay the climate is mild so plants don't have to fight very hard to survive. I've been gardening in the same spot long enough to have all my mistakes come home to roost, some of them forever. For some plants all it took was one plant to take over three acres of forest. This is the list of plants that I would never plant again: Geranium x cantabrigianse 'Biokovo'/ Campanula of any kind / white Calla Lillies / Periwinkle any kind / mexican Daisy / violets / English lawn daisies. Not planted by me but invasive in my area in the extreme: Cestris and Ivy of any kind. Thanks for sharing your list and encouragement to get rid of plants that we don't like.

Black eyed Susan’s. I’m digging up the original plant from 5 years ago. Every year, it’s the battle. It’s a bully plant and you can’t control it except in a container. 😊

I guess it's all relative. Growing plants in the far north has many challenges, so we tend to appreciate plants for a variety of reasons. Beauty is only one of them. #1: If it survives here, it needs to be considered! That being said, here is a list of plants that I made the mistake of planting and have spent years eradicating: Goutweed, aka Bishop's weed. It's super invasive, thrives in ANY condition and it takes forever to totally eradicate it, even in my area, and that's saying a lot! Lily of the valley, I love the look and scent, but it's also too invasive, and almost impossible to get rid of. Wild orange daylilies, aka ditch lilies - made the mistake of accepting a box of tubers from someone digging up their back yard. (Should have seen the red flags there) Next to impossible to get rid of. I love the other daylilies though, and have 100s of them. To me, they're worth the effort because I've hybridizied many of these myself for plants that can survive our harsh winters and bloom well in my environment. Coneflower: love it. By the time it looks bad, the snow is flying, so don't care. Potentillas: I have some because it's a shrub that survives our winters. I use them as a means to trap additional snow on my flower gardens in winter, thus adding protection for the perennials I do value. Creeping thyme: planted some 30 years ago, and have been trying to get rid of it ever since. Others I don't love: Golden Sedum, Johnny jump ups, portulaca, calendula. They self sow too freely.

Can totally appreciate your stance. We all have different tastes and what were willing to take care of which is 1000% ok. Taking care of some things may be enjoyable and others not. The more open we are to discuss, the better and maybe come across tips or applications.... Etc.

Cone flower! 1-2-3 strikes you're out. I just can't waste any more time and money on these plants. Love them, but the feeling is not mutual! Loved this video. And I agree. Everyone has the grace to love or dislike a particular plant for whatever reason.

Lily of the valley has a beautiful fragrance...

I actually bought Chameleon plant at a garden center 😳 After seeing it taking over my garden bed the next year, I then spent 5 getting rid of it🤨 IYKYK

I forgot to add Japanese anemone to the 'never again' list. Planted by a friend more than 20 years ago and it will not stop appearing everywhere and in everything. It is impossible to get rid of or control. Mint and Lamium will spread but can be pulled out. I have struggled to grow daylillies and almost gave up until I found a variety called 'Cranberry Baby'. They are smaller altogether - maybe a dwarf variety? I grow them around a magnolia tree, so they get summer shade. I never do anything to them except water in the summer and occasional clean up. The flowers are deep red and probably would be more numerous if I divided the plants. But they are evergreen and easy plants.

Horsetail and sweet potato vine. They totally took my beds over

Star of Bethlehem bulbs are one of my biggest nemesis. I've given up in one garden. I let it come up, bloom and then it disappears until next year. Second, spider wort. I'm down to one clump, but it pops up in areas that aren't even close to the mother plant. I agree, every gardener has their own list!! Maryland, Zone 7.

I agree with all of those! If I had to pick one though, it would be Lily of the Valley. I can remember my grandma grew it wild on a hill. To this day whenever I smell it, it brings me back to my childhood. That smell is Iike no other!

Amen on the daylilies, Erin! !!! Beautiful flowers to admire in SOMEONE ELSE'S garden!

You're the best. Love your honesty ❤️

Most of the plants I will never grow again arrived in my garden as gifts. Like you, I was starting my gardening journey and happy to have any and all plants- especially free ones! Not so 'free' once you add up the hours of digging, pulling, and cursing these gifts! My list includes: Clustered Bellflower; Fairy Thimbles; Loosestrife; Lamium; and Cornflower. I've also learned the lesson to get rid of plants plagued with disease or pests, or plants that I don't love (still working on this!) Not all the thugs in my garden were gifts though... I have bought many unruly plants. The moment I see an unwanted wandering habit, out they go - to the city compost bin. These are not pass along plants!

I could not agree more on all of your choices. In fact, my Redbud is getting the boot. Although I was told it would do well in Colorado, (5b/6a) I now have come to the conclusion that our local tree nursery just wanted to sell me a tree. I have grown or my next door neighbor has grown nearly every variety you listed. We both have gotten rid of them as recently as last week. I still see her and her husband digging to China on the Lilies of the Valley. We always seem to feel it is somehow sacrilegious to get rid of plants. I am looking at 2024 much differently. Add creeping buttercups to the list.

For those of you who love daylilies or have a ton of them on your property, the flower buds are edible and used in Chinese cooking (golden needles). I had a volunteer Redbud (Cersis canadensis) that I had to take out because it was growing right next to my foundation. I had pure clay soil with no organics in it. The first year the redbud grew 3 ft from a seed and the second year it grew 9 ft! I had a similar experience with black walnut. I live in western Kentucky USDA Zone 7.

I spent 4 hours digging up day lilies yesterday. The previous owner of my house planted them, and I will never choose to have them in my garden because they are basically a weed in my eyes.

Beware the friend, neighbor, relative that presents you with a 'gift' from their garden. Ask yourself why are they are sharing it and why it was so easy for them to propagate!

Ivy and I will never understand people that plant creeping Charlie on purpose!

I’m totally with you on day lillies for pretty much the same reasons as you. I banished them from my garden years ago, but I’m still digging them out!

Yellow flag iris (Iris pseudacorus). When I dug my first pond, a friend gave me this as a present. It looks gorgeous for 2 weeks in spring - the rest of the year not so much. And it spreads! The rhizomes raft across deep water, creating a mat from which its feeder roots dangle down. 3 years later, the pond had very few other plants. Another 3 years of neglect, and we had to cut the iris out with a chainsaw. Two people holding the rhizomes up with pitch forks, and one person operating the chain saw, trying to avoid cutting the liner. I threw all the bits into s shrubbery with vigorous thuggish evergreen shrubs and ivy, thinking that the roots would dry out and die. Not a bit of it. Iris pseudacorus is a water plant, but 4 years later it is still growing in this shrubbery, its yellow flowers peeping out each spring. At least it struggling too much on dry land to spread now.

This video was fun!

Erin, after 20 years of gardening for other folks, I've come to the same conclusion. I'm with you 100% on every one of these. My worst experience was with the dreaded Lily of the Valley. I grew up loving it in my mom's garden, oh the scent! But in later years, I worked on a property where Lily of the Valley had probably been planted 40 years before on the edge of a 20 x 40' garden bed. Over time, it subtly took over, growing at the feet of all the other plants. We spent a few hours one day "double digging" it out before realizing how fruitless our efforts were. It would have taken us weeks to dig it all out! Got a small backhoe the next day and removed everything 12-14" down. After 2 weeks, there were a still a few pieces popping back up. We took them up, brought in new garden soil and finally were able to start a new garden planting. Ugh, so much energy spent.

Lessons are learnt quite quickly. 👍❤️🙂

I have 2 never agains: English ivy. we had a hilly lot and thought it was a great solution to avoid mowing the hill. it grew like crazy, attracted mice and snakes. Second was irises. they need divided too often and the flower beds with irises went rampant with thorny weeds. I do like daylillies and I have a redbud I love but every spring it looks like it’s dead until almost June (zone 6a). If it fails, I’m moving on to something else. I also have learned to do my own research and not walk into a garden center and believe what they may tell me. Thanks, Erin. keep up the good info on your likes and dislikes and why.

OMG! I am so on the same Daylily page with you! I have been fighting with myself for YEARS wanting to get rid of mine. Nice in the spring, don’t re-flower all that well and then the foliage just looks like crap. I spend more time pulling out the dead leaves than any other chore. I swear there is some worm or insect which feeds on the roots. I live on the north side of Lake Ontario, Zone 5B (Canada hasn’t updated our heartiness zones in years so who knows, likely a 6B now lol) and the leaves are just coming through nicely…..but their days are numbered! My beds are part sun/shade so I think I will just replace them with some interesting hostas. Love your channel and your common sense approach to gardening!

Purple passion Vine period even my neighbors hate me for this one.

Yes beware when people "gift" you plants. I have pulled out snow on the mountain for many years as well as lily of the valley. Lamium horrible spreader. I planted it on a hillside and that was a huge mistake trying to eradicate it. I spent 2 years trying to remove the plain old day lilies. Ugh! Ferns spread by rhizomes. Nope! We all live and learn when it comes to plants. I have now done more homework before planting things. Thanks Erin.

Chameleon plant or evening primrose. Absolute NIGHTMARE! 😂 And I agree with you. Very entertaining piece. Thank you 💚🍃

Hydrangea macrophylla-rarely blooms and a deer magnet Lilies-Red Lily Beetle has taken control over them Peonies-Every year a huge rain knocks them down just when they are in their prime one week bloom span. Then they get powdery mildew

We totally understand (but won’t hold you to it)! ❤

Hahahaha! Good chat. 😂 Definitely agree on all those. I was also sucked into creeping bellflower last year (pretty) so I will keep an eye but see it wildly growing in people’s gardens around here. Been there with daily Lillie’s too. Still trying but agree. A lot for little. Same with Iris. Stunning blooms early (first ones to bloom for me) but then nothing for the majority of the season. And boxwoods. I’m sick of winter kill or blight or whatever only to keep having to replace them. Done with trying to have a nice little boxwood hedge around hydrangeas. I will leave it to the pros. And I inherited Lilly of the valley but moved it to beside my shed and cedars and doesn’t take off at all. Still same little bit 🤷‍♀️.

I Really appreciated this video cuz it made me look around at my garden and see my various plants and groupings with a some objectivity--unusual for me. Potentilla on your list was the one that surprised me as it is native and a host for some pollinators. I have quite a few. Now, as a result of your video, I find that I agree with you. Potentillas are not a pretty plant--flowers are small and foliage is non descript. At this time of year, my many potentillas--and they're in the front yard--are actually quite unsightly. And they have only one season of the year that's at all attractive and/or interesting--and really not so much of either. Result: I'm moving a a bunch of them to the backyard. We'll let the pollinators find them back there. Thanks for a very good video, Erin. It opened my eyes! 😊😊😊

Hi Erin. I'm Robyn, I garden in NJ 7b. I was gifted a "weed" and that weed is on your list DAYLILY! The person that gave it to me a lovely Gardner, didn't know what kind of daylily it was. I graciously accepted grew it in a pot till it was big enough that I can divide it for a couple years. I research a little bit on how to take care of daylilies it didn't seem that high maintenance. I noticed last summer something growing along the lawn edge that looked very similar to a young daylily it was almost 3 feet away from the clump of daylily! Then in there I did hard research and I found that what I have is called a ditch Lily! I started digging them up last Fall. I've given some away told the person "buyer beware" 😈 they still accepted it but a lot of them I'm sorry I just threw in the trash. I put them in a double plastic bag and threw it in the trash. I still have some more but I know for the next few years I'm gonna be digging them up it's hard to get those little potato looking yam roots!

I will never grow Passion Vine again! I love the way it looks and the butterflies it brings BUT……it spreads EVERYWHERE by rhizomes. It would pop up 15 feet from where I planted it and it took me 3 years to get rid of it (I hope).

I call those bellflowers ladybells, and actually brought them from a field to my garden-I will have them forever! I spend a lot of time digging their seedlings out of my gardens!! The lady I garden for has lily of the valley, and we have tried covering with landscape fabric, digging, and propane torching them. Thought we succeeded with the torching, but they just took a little breather and came right back!