Would love some for postage or trade. I am a newbie and don't have a whole lot to trade, but I do have some extra old fashion violets and some ladies mantle.
Oh pleeaaaseee do you have some purple loosestrife . . .
do not plant it!!!!
It is invasive and is killing our wetlands.....
I have it coming up by the lake but where ever I see it I pick the blossoms to keep it from going to seed.I rip the plants out,cut them back,burn them
Its gorgeous but a very bad,bad,plant
Our county has spent lots of money in controlling this noxious weed that escaped from someones water garden years ago. It is so invasive that it will even choke out cattails and then the ducks won't even come back to the area because there is no natural area left for them. About three years ago our county started importing a type of small beetle that eats only purple loosestrife and now we are harvesting these beetles and moving them around the rest of the county and sharing them with other areas of the state and across the border in Oregon too. It really is a pretty flower but even if you are miles from water the songbirds might just carry seeds to the waterways.
Thought you might like to know some of the rest of the story on this plant.
I have some yellow loosestrife.........but even thats invasive.
there is a wild life refuge "Montazuma Marsh" on the NY State Thruway,the purple took over the marshlands.....
They tried burning it...last year they got some of those beetles......
Alyssum, I expect you never guessed what a can of worms you were opening! Perhaps there would be some plant that will be a good substitute, maybe purple Liatris? Maybe someone will have other suggestions as well.
I saw some at a local nursery and it was so pretty but they were charging $15 for it! I should go back and tell them that it is a noxious and invasive weed. LOL
I liked it because I thought it might make a nice companion plant to go in-between my daylilies, since my colors are mostly pinks and purples, I am open to suggestions, I am new at this.
NO WAY!!!!!
Thats so bad!
I have meadow sweet,not sure if you have it...its pink and blooming right now.....
I have purple loosestrife and have been complaining that it isn't making a bigger clump. We don't live near wetlands, but even in my yard, it won't get out of control. I don't water it and maybe that is why the clump isn't enlarging. I never find seedlings coming up anyplace.
CC -- that is nice, I never saw that before, that might work . . . how tall is it?
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Alyssum, the nursery may tell you it is a sterile, hybrid form. That would not be absolutely true.
Maybe some Salvia or Veronica would also work for purple or blue spires among the daylilies. They would probably be better than the more magenta-purple of the Liatris.
The meadow sweet is 7 or 8 foot tall right now......
Some of the tall garden phlox have similar-colored blooms. Other ideas: Campanula, Aconitum, Verbascum, Salvia, Monarda, Baptisia.
With a cautionary note I'd also suggest Physostegia - it can be pretty thuggish, so I'd think long and hard before planting it in between prized daylilies. But it does look quite similar to Purple Loosestrife in terms of height, leaf and bloom.
I think that may be a bit tall to go in-between my daylilies, but it sure is pretty!
I got TONS of Physostegia,obeidient plant,very pretty in the fall.......
and it is a thug
CC -- you have mail.
i have pink loosestrife and its never ever doubled!!!!
I have white gooseneck loosestrife for trade or sase. It is a spreader but one of my favorite plants in my beds.
Hi, the store may also have mislabeled the plant, there are plants called loosestrife, that are not the lythrum that is banned (or vise versa), I would recommend a tall veronica or salvia-different shades available and long growing season when dead-headed.
Crestedchik is right. Don't plant it.
http://www.nps.gov/plants/alien/fact/lysa1.htm
How about liatris. It is about the same shade of purple, gets about 30 to 36 inches tall and forms a nice clump. Mine is starting to look really good this year. It seeds itself some but isn't invasive. The butterflies and bees love it and I think hummingbirds too.