Letting it take over some spaces, growing it in the Common Milkweed bed. This may be the easiest native to grow. Hopefully it will provide food when it is most needed.
Love my blue mist flower and look forward to battling to contain a native in my yard for once instead of the countless invasive. Blue mist flower has had the best first year flowering of any of the natives I’ve tried planting so far.
jjbeo
Definitely a great plant, gets huge very quickly and stays green/flowering until a hard frost
_N00d_
Based!!!
LengthinessWeekly503
How do you keep it contained? I love it but year 2 it’s getting ready to spread
snidece
It can also be divided and split up and transferred to new places where it should do quite well.
nlevend
I planted this like 3 summers ago (twin cities, MN). The next summer it took off and I was worried it was crowding everything out. Last summer I don’t think I ever saw the mistflower at all. I really hope it comes back this year, but I have no idea what it will look like. My native garden is still kind of equilibrating, I didn’t expect last year to have 5′ bee balm, anise hyssop and sneezeweed everywhere. My Grey coneflower, mistweed and some big/little bluestem clumps got kind of bullied.
Mocker-Nicholas
Interesting. Are these basically mint? They look like mint.
mari_pos_a
bonus: when it takes over, it’s so easy to pull out!! completely eradicating it from an area not so much, but also not too bad either. 🙂
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Love my blue mist flower and look forward to battling to contain a native in my yard for once instead of the countless invasive. Blue mist flower has had the best first year flowering of any of the natives I’ve tried planting so far.
Definitely a great plant, gets huge very quickly and stays green/flowering until a hard frost
Based!!!
How do you keep it contained? I love it but year 2 it’s getting ready to spread
It can also be divided and split up and transferred to new places where it should do quite well.
I planted this like 3 summers ago (twin cities, MN). The next summer it took off and I was worried it was crowding everything out. Last summer I don’t think I ever saw the mistflower at all. I really hope it comes back this year, but I have no idea what it will look like. My native garden is still kind of equilibrating, I didn’t expect last year to have 5′ bee balm, anise hyssop and sneezeweed everywhere. My Grey coneflower, mistweed and some big/little bluestem clumps got kind of bullied.
Interesting. Are these basically mint? They look like mint.
bonus: when it takes over, it’s so easy to pull out!! completely eradicating it from an area not so much, but also not too bad either. 🙂