This cultivar spreads with astonishing speed, and is just as invasive as the species. I've spent much time trying to rid both lawn and be...Read Moreds of the parent species. A noxious weed of lawns and gardens and an invasive species destructive of natural areas, it's on the Massachusetts prohibited plant list, which makes the sale, trade, transport, and planting of this species illegal.
Poisonous to grazing animals, the juice contains a vesicant that can cause blistering on contact.
This plant destroys other plants not only through competition for resources but also by producing allelopathic chemicals, toxins that inhibit the growth of or kill a wide range of other plants.
It all depends where you put it. Not knowing its habit when I first planted it, I had to eradicate it (no easy task) from the perennial...Read More and 'meadow' areas of the garden, because it crept into everything and tried to take over. I moved it to the eroding slope on the city side of the side walk (I'm lawn free) and in the alley (where weeds are king) and it has been a godsend. It's not a plant I'd recommend to most gardeners, but it is pretty and can be useful in difficult areas.
Pequannock, NJ (Zone 6b) | November 2008 | negative
Very pretty and colorful even in winter but it is a thug. It spreads rapidly in all directions, through all things and it is not easy to ...Read Morepull out. Fortunately I had an infestation of some kind of fuzzy aphid that decimated the plant. I still keep a neglected small bit in a pot. It has lived above ground in it, even through winters, but never returned to its former glory. Not recommended for most uses.
I had already read the negative reviews of this plant when I decided to take my chances and put it in the garden this past fall. I do li...Read Moreke the color and it is evergreen (or Lime green anyway)... However, I was just reading "The passion for Gardening" by Ken Druse and on page 107 he mentions this plant by name as a "problem", and he "lost several plants that the Ranuculus had overrun". Well, if this wasn't a last chance wake-up call, I don't know what it will take. I will dig this up and hopefully get it all out... I'm tempted to keep some in pots, but don't know if it will reseed and still cause a problem.
Top contender for a "Creeping Crud" award. I was given some of this as a gift. Oh lordie lordie lordie, talk about a gift that goes on g...Read Moreiving. I think... not entirely sure, that I may have gotten the last of it ripped out of the ground this year but then again one never knows and all it takes is one missed piece for this to go on giving. And, shade didn't seem to slow it down.
The vendor I bought this from didn't warn me about how this spreads. I will now try to move it to deep shade or through it out. Its overw...Read Morehelming my perrenials.
Lower Hudson Valley, NY (Zone 6b) | December 2004 | positive
If you're looking for a fast spreading, colorful, weed smothering ground cover to go from full sun to full shade, this is it. It has not ...Read Morebeen the thug for me that it has reportedly been for others. Makes a great carpet. Color is more golden in the sun.
Another one of those invasive plants that once in the garden, is virtually impossible to get out. Each spring I start weeding one of the...Read More wet spots in my garden and try to eradicate this plant. Two weeks later it's back. It pops up everywhere it's the hardest to get out - right in the middle of bulb plantings, in hosta, etc. The flowers are pretty, but when not-where-they-re-supposed-to-be, can be a scourge. That's why the negative rating.
This cultivar spreads with astonishing speed, and is just as invasive as the species. I've spent much time trying to rid both lawn and be...Read More
It all depends where you put it. Not knowing its habit when I first planted it, I had to eradicate it (no easy task) from the perennial...Read More
Very pretty and colorful even in winter but it is a thug. It spreads rapidly in all directions, through all things and it is not easy to ...Read More
I had already read the negative reviews of this plant when I decided to take my chances and put it in the garden this past fall. I do li...Read More
Top contender for a "Creeping Crud" award. I was given some of this as a gift. Oh lordie lordie lordie, talk about a gift that goes on g...Read More
The vendor I bought this from didn't warn me about how this spreads. I will now try to move it to deep shade or through it out. Its overw...Read More
If you're looking for a fast spreading, colorful, weed smothering ground cover to go from full sun to full shade, this is it. It has not ...Read More
Another one of those invasive plants that once in the garden, is virtually impossible to get out. Each spring I start weeding one of the...Read More