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If you spoil this plant with water, fertilizer, and great soil, it will repay your kindness by overtaking your garden. Don't do it!
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I found the species was too aggressive a runner for me---too work-intensive. I've grown 'Pink Manners for two seasons now and it's been a...Read More
Bought a 2" pot not knowing what it was two years ago. First year, I actually thought it had died, as a large basil plant next to it cov...Read More
It took a year or so but a small plant is now taking over the garden. The roots are really thick and tough to get out. I'm working on digging it out.
A very useful plant for the transitional period from late Summer into early Fall. Mine bloom for about two months through August and Sept...Read More
Yes, it spreads fast, so put somewhere with boundaries. I LOVE this plant in late summer, zone 4, en masse. I put yellow snapdragons or n...Read More
An easy, vigorous, native plant. An attractant for Hummingbirds and butterflies. We grow five varieties, in ten different colonies: p...Read More
Put this plant is drier soil, and it spreads very little. I have had great luck with this plant in full sun/dry soil. It blooms when ot...Read More
No matter what, this plant will always make me smile. Here in zone 4 it is the first thing to be green. My yard is a big slushy, muddy me...Read More
I was torn about this plant because on the positive side it has lovely purple flowers in the late fall when other plants are weary but it...Read More
We planted three obedience plants last year, and now we have much bigger clumps where each where planted. It seems to spread very quickl...Read More
Obedient Plant . . . an ironic name for a plant that so blatantly disrespects boundaries! I love the flowers, but not the invasiveness, ...Read More
Removed mine this past summer but I guarantee I'll be pulling out those roots for a couple of years. Very invasive!
Atlanta - invasive - spreads underground and will take over a bed in no time. Very hard to completely get rid of it.
This plant's invasiveness is only kept in check if it is divided every 1-2 years (zone 6). High maintenance in my book. Attracts bees in ...Read More
The pink one flowers some time after the white one flowers (which is pretty too but turned out to be very weedy). The pink one flowers mi...Read More
A pink flowering perennial plant that likes full sun. Divide every few years. pokerboy.
Seems to like part-shade, tends to wilt in the the hot, direct sun we have here in northern California.
Yes, the standard variety of this plant is quite invasive. If this is a deterrent, try the variegated-leaf variety. Soft pink flowers f...Read More
New growth seems to be variegating on its own; then reverts to regular foliage. Quite a bit of clumping. Spreading vigorously in good s...Read More
Last spring, I put Physostegia on a south-facing slope with depleted high pH clay soil. I practically never water once a plant is establ...Read More
Easy to grow, but remember the reason it's called obedient has nothing to do with its growing habits :) It will spread - not a bad thing...Read More
Easy to grow. Grows to 3' high, spreads readily, slightly invasive but kept in check by division. Flowers are produced on spikes, come in...Read More