On this week’s Good Growing Podcast, we talk about some problematic plants in the landscape, wintercreeper and Japanese barberry, They have been widely planted, but in many places, they have escaped cultivation and are now causing problems in natural areas. Learn more about these troublesome plants and some alternative plants we can plant instead!

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00:27 – Ready for colder weather and moving plants indoors

01:32 – Keeping cats out of potted plants

03:12 – Can plants be good or bad?

04:26 – What does invasive mean?

08:00 – “Bad plant” #1 – Wintercreeper

10:36 – Managing wintercreeper

13:18 – Wintercreeper alternatives

14:12 – Wild ginger

14:55 – Barren strawberry

15:40 – Ferns

16:14 – Sedges

16:47 – A few more groundcovers

17:42 – Vining alternatives, Virginia creeper and passionflower*c

20:07 – Mayapple (groundcover) and other spring ephemerals

22:44 – “Bad plant” #2 – Japanese barberry

26:14 – Managing barberry

28:55 – Barberry alternatives

29:07 – Hydrangeas, Little Quick Fire

29:44 – Boxwood

30:39 – Winterberry holly, Berry Poppins

32:35 – Inkberry holly

33:42 – Aronia, Low Scape mound chokeberry

35:34 – Fothergilla

36:42 – Ninebark

38:15 – Knock out rose

39:05 – Red and yellow twig dogwood

40:32 – Wrap-up, thank you, what’s up next week, and good-bye!

Management of Invasive Plants and Pests of Illinois: https://extension.illinois.edu/sites/default/files/management_of_invasive_plants_and_pests_of_illinois.pdf

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