[dzvero]

Hi I see this plant passing one building and wonder what is its name. It looks similar to yellow creeping jenny [URL="https://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/677/#b"] but this one is blue

It doesnt need mowing ,no too much work

[dzvero]

This is the yellow creeping jenny - Lysimachia nummularia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysimachia_nummularia

[Dewsnupd]

It's called Vinca

[dzvero]

Many thanks ! Thats exactly it! Do you happen to grow it?

[Josh (PA)]

it can be invasive and hard to control. I inherited some on my property and have been trying to get rid of it forever. PITA, in my opinion.

http://homeguides.sfgate.com/invasiv...jor-24805.html

[Sea-Tac]

Woodchips

[UncleWede]

Originally Posted by Sea-Tac

Woodchips

or just plain old tree bark

[DETRoadster]

Originally Posted by Sea-Tac

Woodchips

Originally Posted by UncleWede

or just plain old tree bark

You guys got any suggestions for controlling Ivy? My next door neighbor has it growing in her back yard (rental house). Talk about invasive! It's a full on battle every summer. I probably pull 2 pick up loads out of MY yard every year. It just keeps coming over, through, and under the fence no matter what I do.

The house behind me (also a rental) has blackberries in her disheveled, overgrown, back yard. A couple times a summer I'm out there with my pump sprayer and the Ortho blackberry killer, shooting a 20 foot stream of toxins over my fence and into her yard. LOL. Probably going to get caught someday but so far after 5 years she has yet to notice the brown corner of death in her yard.

[Sea-Tac]

Originally Posted by DETRoadster

You guys got any suggestions for controlling Ivy? My next door neighbor has it growing in her back yard (rental house). Talk about invasive! It's a full on battle every summer. I probably pull 2 pick up loads out of MY yard every year. It just keeps coming over, through, and under the fence no matter what I do.

The house behind me (also a rental) has blackberries in her disheveled, overgrown, back yard. A couple times a summer I'm out there with my pump sprayer and the Ortho blackberry killer, shooting a 20 foot stream of toxins over my fence and into her yard. LOL. Probably going to get caught someday but so far after 5 years she has yet to notice the brown corner of death in her yard.

Welcome to the great Pacific Northwest. if the Scotch Broom doesn’t get you then the blackberries will!

It's my understanding in King County property owners are not required to control blackberries growing on their land. That said, there are regulations codified under the Washington Administrative Code which list blackberries as noxious weeds and considered harmful to the environment.

WAC 16-750-015 State noxious weed list - Class C noxious weeds identifies two types of blackberry considered noxious and harmful to the environment. They are the Evergreen Blackberry and the Himalayan Blackberry.

Depending on what area you live in you might want to contact your local city code enforcement department and ask how they enforce compliance to WAC 16-750-015. Ask also what codes may exist for vegetation encroaching on your property. If you live in a community that has bylaws such as in a “gated community” there will most likely be CC and R’s or covenants restricting shrubbery encroachment.

https://www.nwcb.wa.gov/weeds/evergreen-blackberry

http://apps.leg.wa.gov/wac/default.aspx?cite=16-750-015

https://www.kingcounty.gov/services/...lackberry.aspx

All said and done...get some goats!

[///M Power-Belgium]

I think you can smoke it

[UncleWede]

Wait, blackberries are invasive? So, those 2 tiny little shoots I put in the ground next to the cactus are going to cover the wall, spread thru the entire space I bordered in the lawn, and feed me blackberries each summer????


Can't wait!

[jgoens]

You can suck the juice out of the purple flowers...kind of sweet. Does not get you high or anything but tastes good.

[Sea-Tac]

Originally Posted by UncleWede

Wait, blackberries are invasive? So, those 2 tiny little shoots I put in the ground next to the cactus are going to cover the wall, spread thru the entire space I bordered in the lawn, and feed me blackberries each summer????


Can't wait!

Not just your wall and your yard...your entire state...

[dzvero]

Originally Posted by UncleWede

Wait, blackberries are invasive? So, those 2 tiny little shoots I put in the ground next to the cactus are going to cover the wall, spread thru the entire space I bordered in the lawn, and feed me blackberries each summer????


Can't wait!

Me too

[dzvero]

Originally Posted by Josh (PA)

it can be invasive and hard to control. I inherited some on my property and have been trying to get rid of it forever. PITA, in my opinion.

http://homeguides.sfgate.com/invasiv...jor-24805.html

I know. I have a lot of weeds in the grass atm - got the house like this last year. might say its more weeds than grass. So replacing them with another weeds seems ok

[Maynard]

Think twice, because 'invasive' does not do it justice - We used to refer to this as 'Ohio Kudzu'. 14 years later in a new state, and we are still having to pull stringers that come up from the dirt that was around the plants we brought with us. It will strangle or outgrow most anything, and will work itself into your siding and windows. There are much more workable ground covers if you want a no-work yard.

[dzvero]

Originally Posted by Maynard

Think twice, because 'invasive' does not do it justice - We used to refer to this as 'Ohio Kudzu'. 14 years later in a new state, and we are still having to pull stringers that come up from the dirt that was around the plants we brought with us. It will strangle or outgrow most anything, and will work itself into your siding and windows. There are much more workable ground covers if you want a no-work yard.

What do you suggest ?

[Maynard]

I'd work with a local greenhouse - all my experience is w/NY or OH, so very different growing conditions (and I'm just the hired muscle in our garden - I'll ask my wife if she has any favorites that you can run past the locals to see if they work).