guess i forgot to post the pic!! lol

Thanks, Dawn. Too bad it's a bad one - it's kinda pretty, but I don't need any more invasives. In fact, I have lamb's ear and comfrey that I need to get rid of. If somebody wants them, let me know cause they are overgrowing everything else. I live in far north Edmond if you want to come this far.

You're welcome, Harriet. I agree that it is pretty and some butterflies really love it, but it is a garden thug (as are many native plants, and that can be a plus in the right circumstances). I had one of these pop up in the corner of a raised bed one year, and thought I'd just leave it there and see how it did. Know how it did? It outgrew everything else within 6' of it, and I was yanking it out before you knew it. The next year I had to pull out a lot of seedlings from seed it left behind, but after that one year, I haven't had many sprout. When they do sprout, I yank them out really quickly. Been there, done that, loved how pretty it was and hated how aggressive it was. I admire them in the fields, but my landscape isn't the place for them. I like to give native plants a chance, but when I know they are hyper-aggressive, I know not to give them too much of a chance.

I love Comfrey and have dozens of them growing here and there. They are great for the compost pile, but they do reproduce more plants than I like. I yank out a lot of small seedlings every spring and feed them to the compost pile before they have a chance to get so big that I can't remove them. I don't know if a single comfrey plant ever has died here. Oh, they may freeze back to the ground on a very cold late spring night, but two weeks later they are just as big as they were when they froze. I am starting to think that they'll never die on their own, and it might take a lot of help to kill them.

Uh, you know your garden thug friend would really like one :) It is a host plant for some of the sulphur butterflies... :)

I can bring you seeds or plants to the Spring Fling next year. Maybe these things are the reason we have suphurs all over the place here. Big ones. Little ones. All kinds of them.

oohh...Harriett...Have you already pulled the senna? I can come get it Saturday. I can bring you irises if you would like.

Sure Lisa, come on, but I will not need irises that are purple, lavender, yellow, or white. I have plenty of those. any other color is fine, but only 3 or less - I'm running out of room! Call me to set up a time and directions - 726-8855.

See there, Harriet gets to get rid of an invasive thug, and Lisa gets to plant one for the butterflies. Everybody ends up happy.

Lisa, do you know when you'll be heading this way?

I just saw this plant this morning at the Master Gardens in Norman. Beautiful, but it did look as if it spreads a lot.

It does. Each plant can spread out quite a bit horizontally, and each plant makes a lot of seeds, and each seed seems to sprout and grow. In our neighbor's pasture, they get just about as thick as grass, which is great for the bees and butterflies. The one I let stay (for a while) in my garden after it sprouted there reached about 4-5' tall and was just as wide. It popped up in the midst of southern peas that were pretty aggresive themselves and it quickly outgrew them. It was a monster. A pretty monster? Yes, but a monster all the same.

I hear you, Dawn, I do :) and maybe I should have read your last post before I chose the spot I chose :) Next year, feel free to shake your finger at me and say, I told you so. LOL