Don't Make My Mistake: 11 Shrubs I Regret Planting (Rip Them Out Before Fall)

🔗 Get a beautiful perennial garden with less watering, fewer costly mistake from Henry’s Garden Blueprint: https://henrysgardensecrets.com/ Nine dollars, in a black plastic pot, sometime in the nineties. That is what the shrub by your front door cost. Getting it out is going to cost you a weekend and a rented mattock. That is the difference nobody warns you about. A perennial you regret, you dig out before lunch. A shrub you regret, you fight for a decade. Eleven shrubs I regret, and nearly every one came off a shelf I stood behind for thirty-four years. But four of them are on this list for reasons that are not what you have been told. One shrub the whole internet calls invasive is not invasive, and there is a botanical reason it cannot be. One is not banned in a single state and never has been. One carries a famous accusation that a university extension service has looked at and called likely inaccurate. And the dwarf, compact, well-behaved version of another turned out to be the heaviest seed producer of the nine varieties a research station tested - six thousand and ninety seeds a year, off the one we all recommended for small yards. Number one is the one I would take out first if you only ever get to one. It is also the one where I part company with every other video on this subject, because the story going around about it has grown in the retelling and the real version is both smaller and stranger. For every shrub there is a native swap that gives you the same thing - the same fall color, the same spring yellow, the same evergreen structure - without the argument. TELL ME WHERE YOU GARDEN Which of the eleven is standing in your yard? Drop the number in the comments with your US state next to it. I read every one. Half of this list is a serious problem in one part of the country and barely anything in another, and the map in the comments tells me which one deserves its own video. SUBSCRIBE One video a day. What earns its space in an American yard, and what only looks like it will. Sources referenced: NC State Extension, University of Wisconsin Horticulture, Penn State Extension, Ohio State University Extension, University of Maryland Extension, Michigan State University, Purdue Extension, UConn, Oregon State University, King County Noxious Weed Program, USDA Forest Service, USDA APHIS, USDA National Arboretum, University of Georgia College of Veterinary Medicine. #shrubs #gardenregret #invasiveplants #nativeplants #burningbush #boxwoodblight #nandina #butterflybush #privet #forsythia #gardeningtips #landscapemistakes #fallgardencleanup #americangardening #gardeningforseniors