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I love Snow on the Mountain! It has not been invasive whatsoever! In fact I have tried to encourage growth for my yards for decades.
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For nearly 20 years, this plant has always been one of my favorites, the green & white is very showy, always brightened up a shady spot, ...Read More
I have read enough of the comments to see that those who don’t like it...REALLY don’t like it. I live in the Pacific Northwest and I...Read More
I live in an urban area in Zone 6b. I have lived in my house for 22 years and there is a small patch of Bishop's Weed under a tree that ...Read More
Bought a 1940’s house in 2018 and these suckers are coming into our yard from under the deck and through both neighbors’ fences. Itâ€...Read More
This plant should be banned from sale in North America. It is destroying native habitats by the acre by destroying all native plants in i...Read More
Honestly I sometimes wonder why some people garden. Plants don't seem to me to be cause to get all that emotional.
As vari...Read More
I thought I'd cleared it out from a shady bed last year, but it came back this year as though I hadn't ever touched it. It's too successful
I live in MA and this plant has taken over countless acres of land. I live on 2 acres and the plant goes on for miles and miles in my ne...Read More
I live north of Seattle. I saw this plant and thought it was really pretty. I researched it, read all the negatives etc. But I had a spac...Read More
I wish there was a triple negative. I inherited this vile ground cover with the house we bought. Rarely do I give a negative review but...Read More
I bought a house where the owner had planted 1 bishop's weed varigated. At first I thought it was lovely and it spread nicely around a p...Read More
I see this is one of those plants with a lot of haters. I have a lot of land so am not particularly concerned with it taking over. I've h...Read More
Often called 'Snow-on-the-Mountain' this cultivar is horribly invasive, spreading into everything with its thin white roots. The green mo...Read More
I've found this to be the nightmare spreader that many others have reported. Because it invades the crowns of treasured perennials, it's ...Read More
Our house came (in 1976) with variegated Bishop's Weed in a garden along the north wall, where it coexists with a couple types of ferns a...Read More
This plant came with our home, and while I would not purchase or purposely plant it anywhere now that I know of its invasiveness, I perso...Read More
Bane of My Existence (was???)
This plant was in a large perennial bed of the house I bought a few years ago. It looked lo...Read More
This is an awful, awful plant that will take everything over. I actually was able to quite easily eradicate a whole area by first cuttin...Read More
KILL IT, KILL IT, KILL IT !!! This plant is the cockroach of the gardening world, and should never, under any circumstance, be sold in ...Read More
This groundcover has taken over ~6 acres of floodplain forest in Marott Park Nature Preserve in Indianapolis. At some point it had escap...Read More
I liked the looks of this plant, but knew of its invasiveness. I got some of it a few years ago and use it exclusively as an accent in co...Read More
I live in the interior of British Columbia and have goutweed in a shady area. Today I was ripping some of it out as it's overgrown and c...Read More
I actually wish this stuff was more invasive than it is. I have a large shaded area in my front yard where not much will grow and it's be...Read More
Spent an entire week ~ several hours per day digging this out of a landscape bed.
I had mistakenly planted it about 3 year...Read More
I have searched online for an hour and I finally figured out what it was I was watching take over my flowerbed.
I receive...Read More
I know .. it's 2011... but I have planted this way back in 2001 under my bay window where the plant was surrounded by sidewalk so I was n...Read More
We moved into this house in 1989. The summer of 1990, there was this green and white plant that grew in the left side of my front yard. ...Read More
This stuff is an absolute nightmare. I planted a 3 inch pot last year, and it is well on it's way to taking over the entire bed. It jus...Read More
When I moved into my current house about 8 years ago, the garden was overgrown with nearly waist-high weeds. I had to remove everything b...Read More
RUN, DON'T Walk, away if you see this plant or it's non variegated variety at nurseries or big box stores. Too bad so many of them sell t...Read More
Just to make a distinction - the variegated form of Aegopodium is far less invasive as the green species form. That said, it's still a no...Read More
I planted 4 of these plants several years ago in a dry, shady area under some large poplars. The soil is rocky and nothing grows there e...Read More
As a beginning gardener, when I first noticed the seemingly civilized variegated form of Aegopodium podagraria growing under my neighbor'...Read More
I purchased and planted this after reading all the comments about it. I specifically wanted it after reading how invasive it was, because...Read More
I just moved into a house that has two small plants growing by the patio. I haven't seen it anywhere else in the area. I'm assuming that ...Read More
This is all over our yard in patches of the grass and all the beds. I think the previous owner (we moved in last year) had split plants a...Read More
Yes, it's a somewhat thuggish invasive. BUT, it is very useful as a groundover under trees. You can easily control the spread by mowing...Read More
my friend had some by her house.
i have been fairly successful in killing it.
i pulled out what i could (ba...Read More
This plant is just plain AWFUL!!!! It lives (and thrives!) in a park in St. Louis. For the last 8 seasons we have tried to get a handle...Read More
I have no personal experience with goutweed, but many people have told me their horror stories about trying to eradicate the beast. My p...Read More
Goutweed is considered an invasive non-native species in Wisconsin. And yet, I still see many Wisconsin garden centers continuing to sel...Read More
I had heard this plant could be somewhat invasive, but many around here seemed to have it at the side of their front entrance, so I purch...Read More
There are ground covers and then there are ground covers. I consider my vinca a ground cover. Although they have been known to choke out ...Read More
This is a really nice looking plant...I really enjoy the way that it rapidly recovers from damage (raking, foot traffic, rabbits, deer, e...Read More
I have been fighting this plant for many years now - will never be able to get rid of it because the neighbor has it across the fence. I...Read More
Positive: covers the ground. Reasonably attractive. Pretty flowers (helps to cut them after flowering). Unkillable.
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I would first say thank you for the warning of potentital skin rashes because I do have Bishop's Weed on my property and I am always spre...Read More
I planted this in an iris bed and love the combination. It comes up very early in the spring and fills in nicely. It hasn't been as diffi...Read More
Mostly eliminated from my yard but small patches still remains - the largest being around the blvd garden when one hitchhike on a tawny daylily.
Ground elder came with our house when we bought it. (In the UK). It is rampant and completely takes over where it can, smothering my Blue...Read More
This invasive plant was here when we moved in. After 3 years of fighting it, I think I've won!
Just by chance, I spraye...Read More
though it is invasive, if you want a fast spreading and beautifull ground cover that wont fail any whare. bishops weed is that plant. has...Read More
It is totally irresponsible for catalogs, nurseries, and landscapers to promote use of this horrible "groundcover". I have been fighting...Read More
2008 UPDATE - 3 years after digging it up as completely as we could, and 5+ years after first hitting it with herbicide, I STILL find spr...Read More
I find this plant to be a refreshing color addition to my shade garden. When it begins to get too invasive, I paint the leaves of the pla...Read More
This plant is a beast! I can't believe people would actually plant this monster. I have a beautiful peonie garden that is is invading....Read More
I LOVE this plant! It looks so cool and inviting in the summer with the varigated foliage. It's one of the few plants that actually sur...Read More
As an inexperienced gardener, I planted this pest to fill in as a ground cover. (yikes!) The plants spread like wildfire and I am still t...Read More
So far this has not been a problem for me. It is in an area of poor soil, little water, a garage on one side, a high traffic path on ano...Read More
My parents have both this and the green variety growing at their place. It apparently started about 20 years ago when friends donated pl...Read More
One of the two most beautiful and most invasive weeds in the garden. You should be forced to sign a waiver when you buy it releasing the...Read More
I wish my bishops weed would become as invasive as other gardeners report here. I can't wait for mine to spread.
ok, folks, I am a professional gardener in eastern maine. Though I would love to tell you that there is an easy fix to this intolerable, ...Read More
On the plus side: This plant will grow in dry shade, even the sort of dry shade where little else will grow. It's fairly attractive.
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I'm gonna go neutral on this plant. It certainly is beautiful, and it adds alot to a landscape. I can definitely see that it spreads, b...Read More
Toughie to get rid of and it most definitely caused me to break out in a rash. I have severe allergies and did have areas of skin above w...Read More
My garden came with the non-variegated form of this invasive pest. I have failed to eradicate it with hand pulling, multiple applications...Read More
I absolutely love this plant. My mother grows it beautifully and under control in Michigan. I took some from her garden to grow in my M...Read More
Horribly invasive! I believe the previous owners of my home planted it. They had a lot of various groundcovers around the property, but...Read More
(Rochester, NY)
NEGATIVE: I have also found it to be true that goutweed will re-establish itself from the smallest piece of the ...Read More
This monster has taken over all my perenial beds and no matter what I've tried I can't get rid of it :( We have dug up entire beds in th...Read More
Yes this little guy can be quite invasive, but I have him in a corner of my garden where it can roam free. You do have to keep your eye o...Read More
I found this plant to be a beautiful answer to the erosion of a client's driveway. It must be regularly watered in Oklahoma (U.S.) to su...Read More
I can attest to the fact that goutweed can cause severe skin irritations and rash. I was thinning out my flower beds; the next day I had...Read More
And again I will say the same: stay away! If not a gardener's, it is certainly a landscaper's nightmare!
I'm so surprised to hear this is invasive. I have it planted in two different areas - one in dappled shade, that has spread maybe a few ...Read More
The beauty of the flowers sparkling in the morning sunshine outweighs any negatives for me. My plants grow in semi-shade in a wooded are...Read More
Positive with qualifications! I know it can be very invasive, but for me in the Pacific Northwest it is about the only plant that looks ...Read More
I'm almost feeling sorry for the poor little Bishop's Weed! So much negative press. Here in Southcentral Alaska, it has been a nice addit...Read More
I am aware of the invasive nature of this beast. It is my impression that it 'spreads' underground as opposed to seeds. I'd like to kn...Read More
Goutweed certainly deserves my kudos. Yes, it is invasive, if you let it ramble. But it is also a great groundcover and edging material. ...Read More
Not much to add to what everyone has said about this plant other than to say again how invasive this plant is. It's a shame because it's ...Read More
Avoid this plant like the plague. Here in the UK if you are unlucky enough to have this plant in your garden it is considered a curse. ...Read More
I'm considering it to hold back the weeds from the woods, but if seeds are going to blow into my perennial bed, no way!
This plant "came with" my home purchase. The only way I was able to remove it completely was to take full chunks of soil about 6" deep, ...Read More
I don't know how this plant got into my garden. Now it is trying to take over my beds and the lawn! I have tried to smother it, and I h...Read More
Any fragment left behind when you pull/dig them up turns into a new plant. Will not tolerate a dry area, even in full shade.
In my densely compacted clay soil, this plant hasn't spread an inch in 5 years. About the only thing tough enough to survive. In looser...Read More
Very invasive plant that is hard to get rid of once established. Has caused allergic contact dermatitis in various family members, with ...Read More
Also called 'Ground-elder' in the UK, creeping underground stems spring up, making a new plant at a distance from the original, and lead ...Read More
Genus of about 5 species of ground covering perennials, with invasive rhizomes. The alternate, toothed, deep green leaves (4-8in long) ha...Read More