So what is the dumbest thing you've every done in your tropical gardening adventures? I won't tell unless you do hahaha

I didn't do it but my wife did put air potatoes in our yard one year and I'm still trying to keep these bad boys under control, man are they wild or what growing all over aaaahhhh. Needless to say I have a say nowadays on what gets planted in our little backyard jungle ha.
Edited by Morris_Roberts on Nov 9, 2004 at 10:38 PM

I planted an invasive Clerodendrun with double white flowers in a cluster. It is all over the place and I can't get rid of it.

Good evening everyone :) just a newbie, 2 this site .. but a plant lover all the same .. rumor has it, 2 put empty cottage cheese containers in dirt, around your, plant roots, . 2 stop the speading an taking over .. sounds like it would work, just haven't tried .. waiting 4 spring, 2 begin my jungle :) just saying it, sounds good .. yeah ... Indian Shade >>>---->

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part Cherokee an Italian .. Indianshade ~

I finally gave in to my mom's pleading and seeded little purple Violas and California Poppies in ONE perenial border,..........Yeah, I'm pretty sure you can see where this one is going,......

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Cathy

When I saw that "Banana Tree" offered seeds of, and advice for growing Chinese Tallow (Sapium sebiferum), I thought it imperative to join this forum so I could post a solemn warning about the invasiveness of this species. As an environmental consultant, I once assisted a team of biologists delineating wetlands on a 10,000 acre tract in Chambers and Harris Counties, Texas, where Chinese Tallow demonstrated its remarkable ability to engulf large chunks of land. The property was mostly abandoned rice fields, with some native pasture. In the rice fields, the Tallow trees were the ONLY dominant plant species in every layer (tree, sapling/shrub, and herbaceous) on several thousand acres. They were rapidly sprouting in the nearby native pastures, displacing native grasses that the cattle fed upon. In the Gulf Coast states, this tree is considered to be one of the most noxious and undesireable of all plants, comparable to, and perhaps exceeding, kudzu in its ability to destroy native ecosystems, infiltrate forests, invade pastures, and colonize fallow fields.

Please, please, if you live anywhere that doesn't regularly get below 20 degrees fahrenheit in the winter, NEVER NEVER even considering planting this tree. If you do, your neighbors will consider you to be poor citizens, and will silently wish for someone to spray herbicide on your Chinese tallow tree before seedlings sprout in their flowerbeds.

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BFR