Don't Make My Mistake: 9 Perennials I REGRET Planting as a Lifelong Gardener

There is a perennial in your bed right now that you bought from a magazine photograph, planted with care, and will regret within three growing seasons. Some on this list cost twelve dollars to remove. One will outlive you, your house, and the next person who buys your house - and it is the regret you cannot undo. I planted every perennial on this list with my own hands. I watched each one break a promise the catalog made. I pulled most of them back out of the ground myself. I am walking you through nine today, in order. The one at number one is what almost every American homeowner is planting right now without knowing it and it is the one I want to look you in the eye about. My name is Walter Mercer. Thirty-four years at a garden center counter watching customers buy these nine perennials every spring. I am retired now and I am going to be honest with you. 🔔 SUBSCRIBE for forty years of perennial gardening notes from a 34-year chain garden center insider - no marketing department, no nursery contracts, no patent-protected plant of the month. New notes drop every few days. COMMENT below with the perennial you most regret planting and the US state you garden in. I read every one. Send this video to one gardener you know who is about to plant Stella d'Oro across her entire front foundation. That share might save her three decades of looking at the same yellow daylily every gas station in America has. 🌳 HONEST DISCLAIMER: The chain garden centers I worked at for thirty-four years pushed several of these perennials hard because the patents guaranteed margin (Stella d'Oro, fancy Heuchera hybrids, named ornamental grasses). The list below is what I would not plant in my own beds, with the heritage and species alternatives that lasted my grandmother fifty years. If you have already planted some of these - every plant on the list has a removal path. I name them in the video. #perennialregret #perennialsneverplant #dontplantthese #lifelonggardener #34yearsgarderncenter #insidergardening #seniorgardener #americangarden #waltergardennotebook #perennialmistakes #heritageperennials #grandmothergarden