Don't Make My Mistake: 9 Perennials I Regret Planting as a Seasoned Gardener
Forty years of gardening - and these are the nine plants I wish I had never put in the ground. Not because they aren't beautiful. Every single one is genuinely beautiful. That is exactly the problem.
The catalog photos lied. The nursery tags lied. The university trial gardens didn't lie - but I didn't read them. So I learned the hard way and I am going to save you the trouble.
This is not a video about invasive plants and state bans. This is the prettier kind of regret. The plant the catalog called long-blooming. The hybrid the magazine called the new garden essential. The one your neighbor swore by - and you bought nine of.
Number one is the regret you didn't see coming. The prettiest plant on this list. And the one that still keeps me up at night.
Sources referenced in this video:
Mt. Cuba Center (Hockessin, Delaware) - Coneflower Evaluation, final report published 2018
Allan Armitage - University of Georgia Department of Horticulture
Multiple university extension services on Physostegia virginiana
If this video saved you from even one of these mistakes, drop a comment with the perennial YOU regret most - and which state you're gardening from. I read every one. The old stories are the best ones.
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