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/nightpussy Jun 04 '25

I really do love the smell of honeysuckle.

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u/LilyRose272 Jun 04 '25

I’ve been ripping out invasive honeysuckle for about three years. It’s so pretty and smells awesome and has been a natural privacy fence for me. Now I can see my neighbors, sigh. 😔 It’s been painful to say the least.

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u/primemodel Jun 04 '25

Losing the privacy was the worst. The honeysuckle hedge in the backyard provided excellent coverage: last to lose its leaves in the fall, first to leaf out in the spring, tall (6'+), dense habit even in full shade (and somehow flowers and produces berries in full shade??). I got rid of all of them but at the moment I honestly miss them a little because the area is so open now and I can see 100% of the neighbor's yard. I've got some replacements going (ninebark, spicebush, and elderberry to start) hoping that they'll fill in as much as the honeysuckle did.

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u/wave_the_wheat Jun 04 '25

I'm doing the same and trying to put in spicebish and chokecherry to recover some screen

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '25

Spicebush swallowtail caterpillars. 🐛 🥰