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Do yall pull volunteer plants out of your native beds?


Do yall pull volunteer plants out of your native beds?

by Accomplished_Top_315

8 Comments

  1. hotttsauce84

    I pull them (around this time of year, especially after a rain when the ground is nice and loose) and then transplant them elsewhere (free plants!) or transfer them into small 4” pots to gift to friends and family. Occasionally I’ll transfer them to the creek behind my house in an attempt to re-wild the area but the city usually chops them down before they can go to seed. Some transplant better than others. I always have 50+ mealy blue sage, 4 nerve daisy, a ton of Mexican plum sprouts, and a million flame acanthus babies every spring.

  2. ASAP_i

    I usually forget to look up what the volunteer is, rediscover it, but now it’s larger and the wife will protect this flowering plant/tree/still unidentified plant so it stays.

    We basically keep almost anything that blooms.

  3. Mysterious_Umpire684

    There’s one or two species that would dominate if I didn’t. Skeleton leaf golden eye and mealy sage in particularl, flame acanthus and rock rose to a lesser extent. I’ve given away a lot. Sometimes I’ll pot up and sell 4″ pots in the neighborhood. But just didn’t have the steam to do it this year.

  4. BahHumDoug

    I keep anything that’s not invasive, but I’m pretty new at this. I figure that nature knows better what to grow and where than I do. In the past year I’ve gotten volunteer verbenas, Venus looking glass flower, and a mulberry tree.

  7. Accurate_Set_3573

    It entirely depends on what the volunteer plant actually is.

  8. juliejetson

    The ones with the white/blue flowers in this photo look like mealy blue sage = friend, keep for sure.

    The flowering one looks like a rock rose volunteer from your bigger rock rose/mallow, and I honestly try to pull those early so I don’t end up with a million of them in one space, but mostly friend. I’ve started transplanting them to other spots so we have rock rose EVERYWHERE.

    Having a hard time telling whether some things there that people are saying are hackberry actually are, or if they’re more sage. Do you have some sort of sage nearby that spread? I’d leave them until you know. I’ve had tons of bumblebees and hummingbird moths on my sage lately!

    Hope this helps.

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