Wednesday, July 31, 2013

The Plants You Shouldn’t Plant in Your Yard


These troublesome plants will hijack your garden, trees — and your neighbor’s yard. Plant at your own peril! And tell us which plants you love to hate.




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Bamboo
When you need a concrete bunker to contain a plant, you know you’re in trouble. Some varieties of bamboo are so determined to spread that only extreme measures, such as plastic or concrete root barriers, can keep its rhizomes from running from here to kingdom come. Running varieties include Chimono-bambusa, Indocalamus, Pleioblastus, and Sasa. Clumping varieties are much better behaved — Bambusa, Borinda, Chusquera, Fargesia, and Otatea grow and spread more slowly.


Read more: http://www.houselogic.com/photos/plants-trees/invasive-plant-species/slide/bamboo/#ixzz2aeGizrPt
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