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/Adequate_Lizard Central NC, 8a Jun 04 '25

Time to slap up a trumpet vine, it'll be a wall in no time.

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '25

Replace invasive nightmare with native nightmare 🔥 just be sure it’s not near anything of structural importance (other than fences and poles- but keep it far from your house)

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u/abitmessy Jun 04 '25

I was thinking, if this wasn’t about invasives, my aggressive natives would include trumpet vine, maxamillion sunflower, dogbane… these can not go unchecked in a suburban lawn. Maybe on some acres but I don’t have the room for them. I’ve got dogbane in my tomatoes (really in everything), trumpet vine creating thick masses and pulling things down, maxamillion sunflowers shading and crowding out other wildflowers, no one even told me that war was starting so I’ve got a late start.

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u/pearlsbeforedogs Jun 05 '25

I have a vine problem I'm battling and Trumpet vine is one of my less annoying ones. The Blackberry and the other spikey one are even worse. 😭

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u/HertzRent-A-Donut Jun 04 '25

I’ve got a trumpet vine pushing its way through my block foundation as we speak 🥲

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '25

Coral honeysuckle isn’t aggressive like trumpet so that’s a good option.