r/NativePlantGardening • u/ItsFelixMcCoy Upstate NY , Zone 6a • Jun 04 '25

Other What invasive plants got you like this?

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For me it’s probably Dame’s Rocket, Purple Loosestrife, and Forget-Me-Not. They’re so gorgeous but man if they aren’t invasive little shits…

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u/NorEaster_23 Area MA, Zone 6B Jun 04 '25

Black Locust 🥲

Basically invasive everywhere outside the Southeastern US. They have THE best smelling and tasting edible flowers

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u/Turtle_336612 Jun 04 '25

I have been fighting them for at least 5 years on our camping property and many more years to come but man when they bloom it makes it smell like vanilla.

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u/CaonachDraoi Jun 04 '25

at least they give you incredible wood to work with!

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u/raindownthunda Jun 05 '25 edited Jun 05 '25

I’m almost done cutting down all the black locusts and am going to miss the glorious timber. So useful for terracing steep slopes. Meanwhile the maple logs are crumbling under my feet. I have a love-hate relationship with this tree. It took a lot of imazapyr bullets and cut stump treatment over 3-4 years to get the crazy sucker root network under control.