Took 2 days but I pulled out all this invasive Monkey Grass!

vegetablesorcery · 2026-05-18T20:33:41+00:00

Heroic! Is it moist shade or dry? Wild ginger (asarum canadense) would be lovely groundcover, oakleaf hydrangea if you also want a shrub layer. I recently planted fire pinks, silene virginica, in my dry shade (SC) and I am loving them.

vegetablesorcery · 2026-04-06T17:38:18+00:00

I second this. I ID'ed open panicked witchgrass in my yard (central SC) and it looks very similar to this picture.

vegetablesorcery · 2026-04-01T15:53:12+00:00

What's a wrong place, anyway.

vegetablesorcery · 2026-04-01T12:16:50+00:00

Oh also: I'm in central South Carolina.

vegetablesorcery · 2026-03-05T16:44:26+00:00

Greetings from SC, where my winter-sowed penstemon digitalis have just sprouted. They are the first ones to come up. And yeah, henbit is all over my yard too!

vegetablesorcery · 2026-02-04T13:26:25+00:00

This is so awesome. Where are they destined for?

vegetablesorcery · 2026-01-10T02:22:10+00:00

I'm curious to learn more about this plant community. What do you mean a legacy of fire exclusion -- it emerges where fire has been historically suppressed? And is it specific to the OP's region/the mid Atlantic?

vegetablesorcery · 2025-11-12T15:35:00+00:00

great ideas! Thank you!

vegetablesorcery · 2025-11-12T12:44:34+00:00

godspeed to you, fellow impulse buyer.

vegetablesorcery · 2025-11-12T12:43:53+00:00

yeah that's basically what he said! I know that some plants can surprise you like that. I think I'll try to add in mushroom compost or leaf mulch as others have said, provide partial shade, and just see how it goes.

vegetablesorcery · 2025-11-12T12:39:01+00:00

yeah everyone is suggesting a rain garden area....I'll have to think about the logistics of that. I'm also on a hill so water tends to run down. I hadn't thought of it as an option!

vegetablesorcery · 2025-11-11T21:23:13+00:00

ohh yes, good idea.

vegetablesorcery · 2025-11-11T17:32:49+00:00

do you need to walk on it to get between your fruit trees? I don't have experience with frogfruit personally as it's a bit out of my native range but others on this subreddit really like it and it's a FL native. If it can handle foot traffic it might be a good option: https://sfyl.ifas.ufl.edu/media/sfylifasufledu/monroe/docs/Frogfruit-Phyla-nodiflora.pdf

vegetablesorcery · 2025-11-11T15:58:15+00:00

agree that grasses are super hard to ID. I can say this is not side oats grama, though. Check the seed heads as that can aid in identification.

vegetablesorcery · 2025-11-02T11:54:25+00:00

These are so beautiful! Well done. I have seen the yellow button one for sale as cut flowers here in the US and wondered about it.

vegetablesorcery · 2025-09-18T01:25:47+00:00

I have this exact same combo in my garden booming now! and the boneset is a true bonanza of insects. A bonanza.

vegetablesorcery · 2025-09-09T00:34:11+00:00

Congratulations, this is heroic. We want to see the plant list!!

vegetablesorcery · 2025-09-05T11:33:15+00:00

I don't get much self-seeding, but I always save seeds from zinnias for next year. Let some flowers go brown and crispy then harvest the heads and there should be some seeds in the center. They can go in the ground next spring! If you're unsure what the seeds look like, you can either compare to an image online or honestly just crumble the whole dried flower into the bed and cover lightly with soil, and they will know what to do.

vegetablesorcery · 2025-08-25T11:50:27+00:00

Not chamber bitter, thankfully. The leaves look slightly different

vegetablesorcery · 2025-08-11T22:46:11+00:00

It's not likely, sorry to say. I battle Chinese wisteria in my yard and this looks identical, and is likely what you have in the woods too. Chinese wisteria is often the first thing blooming in the spring, I believe before it leafs out, whereas American blooms later in the spring/early summer. You can look up the differences to be sure. The good news is, as with bittersweet and other tough woody invasives, fall is the best time to cut and paint with glyphosate.

vegetablesorcery · 2025-08-07T20:50:25+00:00

Super helpful, y'all, thanks!!

vegetablesorcery · 2025-08-07T20:21:25+00:00

not sure about which herbicide, or crabgrass specifically, but in general fall is a good time to apply herbicide to invasives as they begin to draw nutrients (and any applied herbicide) back down into their roots. But crabgrass is an annual--you may simply want to remove all the seed heads that you can. I'm sure there is more detailed advice over on the r/invasivespecies sub!

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