5 Plants You Should Never, Ever Grow

Many of the plants touted by the nursery industry as easy to grow actually grow a little too easily and become invasive. Next time you’re perusing the garden center shelves, eschew plants like the ones listed below: They’re known for bad behavior and botanical misdeeds. Instead, pick a native (or just a non-invasive) alternative. Natives are often just as hardy, and they’re much better at attracting a diversity of birds and pollinators to the garden.

1. Japanese Barberry

The big daddy of the bad boys, Japanese barberry is just about the worst horticultural invasive gracing the face of planet Earth—and that’s not an exaggeration. Not only does Japanese barberry grow outside the garden just as well as it does inside, but it proliferates extraordinarily quickly, and is a major tick magnet. For those of you living in the east, break out the long pants and repellent when walking through barberry, or dig it out—every last bit of it


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