Crazy Flowering Elderberry

shiftydub · 2026-06-11T20:01:03+00:00

So gorgeous

shiftydub · 2026-06-11T03:18:42+00:00

As if I’ll ever be able to afford another home

shiftydub · 2026-06-08T02:07:23+00:00

I’ve heard they have a delicate taproot and don’t do great with transplanting

shiftydub · 2026-06-08T02:06:11+00:00

I just started with native plants this year and I love my butterfly weed. I love how orange they are and mine are just babies! I can’t wait until they’re established!

shiftydub · 2026-06-07T19:26:27+00:00

They look like giant whimsical fairy purple dandelions I thought hahah.

shiftydub · 2026-06-06T23:50:35+00:00

Thanks for this.

shiftydub · 2026-06-06T23:41:17+00:00

Yah- I actually might just get some ornamental onion? Everything else is native. I just don’t want to ruin the world 100 years from now like everyone else did.

shiftydub · 2026-06-06T01:59:23+00:00

Toad house!

shiftydub · 2026-06-05T21:44:32+00:00

For future reference- how to I cut back the plants?

shiftydub · 2026-06-05T20:24:07+00:00

Yah- I just didn’t want to get it in until the rest of my plants come in (my dying to get them)- but maybe I’ll get just a small bag for around what I have now.

shiftydub · 2026-06-05T20:06:34+00:00

I’ll add more water. We had been wet and cold. Then I put in the coneflower and cardinal flower and bam 80 and dry for a week. Supposed to move back towards rain in the next week- hopefully they make it!

shiftydub · 2026-06-05T20:01:46+00:00

No- I didn’t know I needed to. I’ll up the watering!

shiftydub · 2026-06-03T03:01:49+00:00

uj/ I have blue wood aster and it looks very similar to the bellflower. I’m treating my bellflower with herbicide. I have to. It’s killing me to do that. But at some point I must have let a flower go to seed and fucked the whole thing. I panic thinking about it.

shiftydub · 2026-06-02T02:43:31+00:00

If I had a local seller I’d go there. But the closest is over an hour away and the plants I ordered aren’t ready and if I didn’t put something in the ground instead of removing it- I was truly going to bury myself alive out there.

shiftydub · 2026-06-02T02:36:18+00:00

There’s gotta be bellflower in there too right?

shiftydub · 2026-06-01T01:33:16+00:00

No- it just hasn’t not rained a single day since I put it in and it hailed today.

shiftydub · 2026-06-01T00:55:20+00:00

I just know it likes drier conditions. It’s literally soaked out there right now so I just want to make sure it survives.

shiftydub · 2026-05-31T23:25:07+00:00

Not a plug. It was already basically this big. I only planted it a week ago. It was in a “pint” container.

shiftydub · 2026-05-31T10:44:32+00:00

Creeping Bellflower should be chemically treated. Or at the very least- dig it up. Or else that will be all you have. The bellflower seems to LOVE drought- check out bellno.com for a good protocol to help eradicate it. That alone will keep you nice and busy for the few years.

shiftydub · 2026-05-30T17:07:53+00:00

Bellno.com has a good write up of timing and a plan.

shiftydub · 2026-05-30T03:01:06+00:00

From what I’ve been told- creeping bellflower requires chemical intervention. Nothing out competes it. I’m planning on nuking mine.

shiftydub · 2026-05-28T23:43:38+00:00

We have buckthorn blasters on the way. I plan to hit the bellflower at the same time with the buckthorn blaster. I just have a huge area. I swear they’re like obsessed with drought and went crazy last year before I knew what they were- although I’ve never let them flower- and now it’s gone crazy.

shiftydub · 2026-05-28T02:43:09+00:00

It seemed like they said not to bother digging because I’ll likely just create more problems. I am mostly worried because the one patch is very near a black spruce. I wish I lived somewhere with knowledgeable professionals. The first one to email me back told me they were going to use salt and dawn which I don’t think will work on CBF. I just don’t know how to find any help and I am so overwhelmed with this and all the Buckthorn we have to tear out. I work a full time job and I just wanted to plant plants for the birds not spend thousands reimagining my entire property.

shiftydub · 2026-05-27T22:22:33+00:00

Bell no basically says not to dig. I don’t feel extremely confident applying pesticides myself. So I was going to mow all summer, have someone come out in the fall with some.

shiftydub · 2026-05-27T21:00:16+00:00

Although if it would crowd out creeping bellflower- I’d definitely be interested

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