LOL! As soon as I saw it, I thought, "Snake habitat!" And that's what he said at about 2 mins in. I'd love to find some of that species!

That's excellent how he shows where to break the rhizomes apart.

How many times have I thrown myself backwards like that??! LOL!! Too many!

What a fun vid, TY for sharing it!!

Nobody else has watched this? It's really cool.

Great show!!

Tiffany, I watched it and I was thinking, that's Tiffany's back yard after she forgets to dig up her sans. Haha

LOL! And, I wish! I'd love to be able to keep Sans over winter w/o using so much space inside for them!

Yes, we wish we lived where it doesn't freeze, but really it is a big problem to have all those invasive plants and bugs growing all year.. We spent several years in south Florida, and while it is a paradise for plant lovers, there are some problems. Lots of fungi too!

Thanks for posting the video it was awesome but i felt bad for the sans he killed

I'm glad everyone had fun! Yes, I was kinda sad for the way he tramped thru...poor things!

I was going nuts when he did but over all i liked the video

Stush, you could do wonders down in Florida. You know, I lived there for about 5 years. It was so easy to grow big beautiful plants there. I remember having several pots of sans. I wish I had brought them to Georgia.

Sans would be easy-peasy to handle, don't have a huge patch & just dig up the extra. Even if seeds did form, they would be so easy to cut off before they ripen. Invasive plants can't invade if never given a chance. We've cut down popcorn & mimosa trees because they shouldn't be here. I'm all about responsible landscaping.

Looks like several thousand dollars' worth of plants in that patch, at least. I've always been baffled that people can bring plants to places where they go wild, but don't then harvest them & sell them back to where they can't cause trouble, when/if they do go wild. Make lemonade out of lemons, especially with something so tough that wouldn't mind being dug up, potted & trucked around at all. What strange times we live in. I've never seen S. hyacinthoides, but there's too much of it in FL.

I would love to live where it's warm enough to have plants outside all
year, and stuff to maintain. I get very bored and physically out of
shape, not having any plant-stuff to do for 3-4 months. I've never had a
garden big enough to truly keep me busy, but we are smothering grass
here as fast as I can find stuff to do the job, and I dig up as much as I can, as often as I can, when it's cool enough. These awful vine
grasses (Bermuda, wiregrass, St. Augustine, centipede, are all in my
yard) take half a year to die, and are also invasive exotics on a scale
that Sans could never even dream of, not to mention all of the air & noise pollution from the lawnmowers needed to cultivate it. My shovel & I don't pollute anything, or the boiling water I use whenever I try to dig something up but fail. Kills all, for free, I always have it available.

Tiffany,

Please watch out on that hot water stuff. Too easy to burn yourself. There's a simple weed killer I heard that is vinager, baking power, and a little soap. Don't know if it really works and don't have exactly how to make it. A black tarp on the ground during the hot summer sun should do the job of killing grass. Also some people are so dump that they grow or fight with stuff that could make them rich if they only knew. People first grew that weed because it was free and planted it. Too stupid to look for a little more expensive plant that would be worth growing wild like that. I have seen people take evergreen trees from the reclaimed land from coal mining and planted them all over there yards only in 10 years to see the most ugly trees in the world. Blue spruce was on sale for only $1 each and they were too stupid to buy them. Most of my friends and some live in Flordia think that there is the only one snake plant in the world. When you ask them about planting any, oh I have lots of them all over the place. They grow wild down here. (weeds!)

Stush

I run vinegar through my coffee pot every so often, then dump the hot vinegar onto the weeds in the walk way. They are then gone!

Stush, all my Blue Spruce have blight in them and are dying off. The blight or insects are even killing the young trees! It is terrible!

Home Depot sells brand 'Compare-N-Save' on internet. One gallon was on sale for $27. Systemic Tree & Shrub. Can be shipped free to home if buying two. Same as Bayor only much stronger dose. Don't use on outside flowers. It kills bees. Almost 1/2 the price of Bayor. I have several around my house which is now over 30 ft.

Stush

Systemic pesticides are the most toxic and long-lasting, but none of them are something I'd want anywhere on my property inside the package, let alone released onto the ground, and $27 would use most of a years' plant budget, which I prefer to spend only on plants. Poisoned plants would produce poison compost & be spread all over the beds. Not something I want anywhere near ornamental or edible plants, people, pets, or the wildlife who live here &/or stop by, and I don't let any organic matter leave the property, except some bones. I don't need any packages of stuff to garden, never have, and have never let unwanted plants grow past where they could easily be pulled as new sprouts, that's not what I want to look at. But have encountered some things when moving to new places that I was unable to dig up, in which case boiling water is very handy. Also kills ants.

The biggest problem I have is that my trees are too far gone now. I just heard a report on the local radio station about Blue Spruce getting sick and dying, I've got to do some more research. It is a real shame that the grove of trees my Grandfather had planted by the CCC back in the great depression are all succumbing now to this. Whatever this is effects the young trees just as badly. Green Spruce are not as effected, but still you can see the needle drop with them also. The report I heard said that the weather patterns had allowed a disease to thrive and the weakened trees get attacked. But I don't remember the details.

Check with your local Agriculture agent to see what is being developed with stronger resistant trees that are being tested and maybe using a substitute like Douglas Fir. You can also call 'Musser Forests' to see what they can offer.

Stush

Floorwalker, I used to live in South Florida and had S. trifasciata laurentii in the yard, it grew so prolifically that every year I had to cut a bunch of it down and it all went into the trash! Yikes!!! I'm not sure that is a pleasant memory after all, LOL!

Sans2014: It would give me nightmares! I wish I could be so lucky to live in a warmer climate! It get's very cold in his area. A couple of years ago, the windchill was -75 degrees!