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What are your 'throw-away' plants

leaveswave
17 years ago

These are the plants where, if a volunteer pops up in your garden, you think nothing of yanking it out and tossing on the compost pile!

Some of my toss out plants are:

  • columbine

  • liatris

  • blackberry lily

  • grey-headed coneflower

  • lupine

  • anise hyssop

  • celadine poppy

  • most of the asters

  • oh, and probably anything I post on the Exchange list! ;-)

Comments (14)

  • beebalm78
    17 years ago

    I haven't gotten to that problem yet.. I hope to get too many plants where I wont feel like a fool for yanking em out.

  • bkoopman
    17 years ago

    Ajuga
    dead nettle
    false Salomen's seal
    Ostrich fern
    ditch lilies (orange ones)
    common hostas
    Helianthus
    aster
    euphorbia
    sedum

    I embrace that which is hardy and grows without coddling...except the other side of that coin generally means I am ripping out those same plants for their rambunctiousness!

  • meeperx
    17 years ago

    The Reseeders:
    Mallow (Malva sylvestris)
    Sweet William
    Columbine
    Tall Phlox
    Orange Poppy

    The Runners:
    Orange Daylilies (These are now officially banned from my yard)
    A dwarf iris whose name escapes me
    A 7 to 9 foot tall double yellow flower I've heard referred to as "Golden Glow"
    Ostrich Fern

  • gamebird
    17 years ago

    Chives
    Hollyhocks
    Morning glories

  • crocosmia_mn
    17 years ago

    Zizia
    Spiderwort
    Oenothera
    Columbine
    Virginia Creeper
    Strawberry

  • selkie_b
    17 years ago

    HEHE you all need to read my WANT list... some of your throw-aways are stuff I actually (believe it or not) NEED.

    My disposables are:

    asters
    wild geranium
    asters
    white snakeroot
    asters
    wild ginger
    asters
    jack-in-the-pulpet
    and did I mention asters?

    -Marie

  • Karen Jurgensen (Zone 4 MN)
    17 years ago

    Can I volunteer my services to come to everyone's yard and "liberate" the throw aways???

    Isn't it funny how when you inherit someone else's garden(ie buy a new house) they never to seem to have planted the things YOU want?

    So far I've gotten rid of:
    Iris (ok normally I wouldn't but they were extra)
    Hostas
    yellow daylillies
    campanula
    funky shrubs(various and assorted)
    ivy
    mallow
    Yucca

  • spartangardener
    17 years ago

    Rudbeckia
    hostas
    stella d'oro
    physostegia
    goldenglow
    oxeye daisies
    columbine
    chives
    tradescantia
    celandine poppy
    yarrow
    some of my lilies after this year
    sweet woodruff
    johnson's blue geraniums
    sedum
    candylily
    hyssop
    some nicotiana & calendula & amaranth

  • Nettie
    17 years ago

    Orange poppies
    Phlox
    Orange daylilies
    Anything growing aggressively where I don't want it.
    Malva
    Physotogia
    Spiderwort
    Irises that are "rotters" or fussy
    William Baffin rose that won't go away.
    Wild white violets
    Red beebalm
    Rudbeckia
    Sedum

  • vogt0047
    17 years ago

    ditch lilies
    hosta
    Pine trees..... I can't tell you how many seedlings I pull out every year

    nettiesgarden- I'd gladly come and liberate you from the William Baffin rose :)

  • meeperx
    17 years ago

    I'd gladly help liberate any of the following:

    Chives
    Virginia Creeper
    jack-in-the-pulpet
    johnson's blue geraniums
    some nicotiana & calendula & amaranth

  • vogt0047
    17 years ago

    ditch lilies
    hosta
    Pine trees..... I can't tell you how many seedlings I pull out every year

    nettiesgarden- I'd gladly come and liberate you from the William Baffin rose :)

  • Nettie
    17 years ago

    vogt0047- unfortunately it is coming up one of my favorite clematis vines that I planted in what should have been a vacant hole. So now I can't shovel it out without damaging the clematis which is more than 5 years old. Too bad because I would take your pine seedlings off your hands.

  • vogt0047
    17 years ago

    nettiesgarden- I've always thought it funny that something you really want tends to be so close to something you don't. Right now I have some beautiful lillies right next to a bush that I've been hoping to dig up, but low and behold the lilies spread in one direction and are now too close for me to get at the bush without damaging them. Hopefully this fall I'll be able to get them away so we can dig it up.

    I'll be happy to pass along a pine seedling... do you happen to want a crimson maple seedling as well? Those would be next on my list. :)

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