The best aggressive plants for your garden

Aggressive plants that can quickly grow in a short time and occupy large areas very often look amazing on the site. These beautiful garden aggressors create magnificent landscapes with their appearance, conquering with their massiveness, bright colors and a variety of textures.

However, having decided to invite such guests to your site, you should not lose your vigilance and nevertheless follow some rules for containing their growth. It must be remembered that sometimes such plants can even harm your health.

Aggressive plants in the garden

Among all the variety of perennial herbaceous plants, one can find specimens that are stunning not only for their beauty, but also for their ability to super-fast growth. Such aggressor plants, capturing more and more new areas, are able to suppress other plants that do not have such a powerful root system.

These "invaders" can become a decoration of the garden where it is necessary to fill large spaces, but care should be taken when planting them in small flower beds or flower beds, because then you will have to constantly monitor their growth.

Aggressive Weed-Driving Plants:

Verbeynik point

Spotted verbeynik is one of the most spectacular representatives of aggressive plants. Shoots of this perennial form dense bushes reaching 50-80 cm in height. The leaves are large, ovoid, the flowers are bright yellow, collected in spike-shaped inflorescences. This plant can create a great natural planting effect and is very picturesque.

The verbeinik grows in a continuous carpet, occupying large areas, due to the fact that it releases creeping shoots, which are collected from it in whorls. Its growth requires constant control, since it is able to displace neighboring plants and occupy areas that were not intended for it.

Maclea heart-shaped

Maclea heart-shaped - can perfectly act as a background plant. It has large, carved gray-green, rather even emerald leaves with light veins. This representative of aggressive cultures is capable of reaching 2m in height, while ruthlessly getting rid of all neighbors, including the most powerful representatives of the flora.

Aggressive plants and common ostrich

This invader belongs to the fern family. The bright green, carved, delicate and narrow fronds of the ostrich are extremely attractive, and simply created to draw attention to themselves in the garden. At the same time, the ostrich has a powerful creeping rhizome, and its fronds are collected in bunches and reach a length of 1.7 m.

It should be borne in mind that under favorable conditions for it, this plant can not only grow too much, but also become weedy.

Deer-horned sumakh

Another name for this large invading shrub is the vinegar tree. It has beautiful feathery leaves, and its flowers and fruit are collected in pyramids. However, this shrub reaches its greatest attractiveness in the autumn period, when it is painted in unique fiery tones.

Sumac has a wide crown, which is much larger in size than the height of the shrub itself. There are also more compact varieties of this shrub, but even here, taking all restrictive measures, an increase in this shrub in volumes cannot be avoided.

Sumac has another interesting feature: even the smallest mechanical damage to its roots turns into a new growth point, from which new shoots will appear. So, it will not be possible to cut and cut then ...

Bamboo

There are species of bamboo that can handle our harsh winters well under cover and can grow up to 2m in height. But the ability to capture huge areas and grow simply "before our eyes" is inherent in all types of bamboo, including dwarf ones.

Bamboo can grow tens of centimeters per day, while growing in the horizontal direction as well. But what attractive sounds are emitted by his shoots - just music in your garden.

Poisonous aggressive plants

Among aggressor plants, there are far from harmless, poisonous specimens. Parts of these plants (shoots, flowers, berries, leaves, roots) contain various toxins or essential oils, interactions with which lead to various lesions of the skin or mucous membranes, such as burns and poisoning.

Often, the effect of toxic substances is enhanced by exposure to sunlight. It is worth avoiding planting such plants in areas where children or animals are, as well as where direct contact with them is possible: along paths and paths, terraces and verandas.

Top 5 most dangerous plants in the garden.

Daphne

This poisonous handsome man, better known to our summer resident under the name "wolf bast", during its flowering can become one of the most noticeable elements of your garden. This is a shrub, reaching 1.5 m in height, with its leaves, reminiscent of laurel, blooms in early spring.

The flowers are bright pink, even reddish, with a strong aroma, densely fill the shoots, creating a unique sight. As beautiful as it is dangerous.

Do not use this plant to decorate areas where children and animals walk, because wolfberry is considered one of the most dangerous garden crops.

Aggressive plants and Mantegazzi hogweed

Large herbaceous perennial, reaches a height of 3-5 m., Has huge pointed leaves and large caps of white inflorescences - umbrellas. It blooms in the middle of summer, emitting a very specific smell of freshness. It remains green until the very frost.

This plant captures vast territories not due to the growth of rhizomes, but due to the release of its seeds over a considerable distance. However, the main danger of this conqueror is not so much that he displaces other plants, reclaiming more and more areas, but that he releases toxic substances that affect the skin.

By acting on the skin in contact with hogweed shoots, these toxins make the skin very sensitive to light, which leads to burns, even when exposed to dim daylight.

Fighter

Another name for this poisonous handsome man is aconite. Depending on the variety, it can be an erect or climbing plant, reaching 50 cm in height. It blooms from mid-summer to the end of September, flowers are collected in branched brushes and look like irregular drooping bells.

The color palette is a variety of shades of blue. Despite all its splendor, the wrestler is a highly poisonous plant, without any external signs penetrating through the skin into the bloodstream, and can cause severe poisoning.

Given this circumstance, when working with this plant, certain safety measures should be observed, excluding direct contact of all its parts with the skin.

Rue

This fragrant evergreen dwarf shrub can decorate your flower beds and borders, if you are not afraid of the difficulties associated with observing some safety measures when growing it. The fact is that the magnificent lacy, silvery-green leaves of fragrant rue emit a huge amount of essential oils that cause severe burns. The situation is made worse by exposure to sunlight.

Castor oil plant

This large annual plant has an external resemblance to a palm tree, and the size of its leaves, under favorable growing conditions, may well become comparable to its tropical prototype.

However, this plant is also poisonous, although the poison is contained in the seeds. But in what quantities, to obtain the strongest poisoning, only one seed will be enough. Such a plant is hardly worth growing in areas where children or animals are present.

Aggressive plants: how to contain?

What to do if you still really want to plant such an invading plant on your site, or a plant containing poisons? Indeed, in reality, the beauty of many of these specimens deserves to have these plants in your garden. And all the difficulties of working with them cannot be compared with the pleasure obtained from contemplating their magnificence and power.

An exception, perhaps, should be the presence of small children, coupled with the desire to plant a poisonous plant in oneself; in this case, probably, it is still not worth the risk. In other cases, it is enough to take some preventive measures.

For example, when planting invading plants, a growth-limiting container can be installed in the planting hole. An old bucket or some kind of unnecessary plastic container can act as such a container.

In this case, it is necessary to plant a plant directly in this container, having previously cut off the bottom in order to avoid the occurrence of high humidity and rotting of the roots. With this method of planting, the walls of the container will be a natural and insurmountable obstacle to the growth of the aggressor plant in breadth, the appearance of root suckers or creeping shoots.

To limit the growth of aggressive plants, protective barriers can also be installed in the soil, along the perimeter of the territory intended for a particular plant. Any non-natural material with a height of about 60 cm and a thickness of over 2 mm (slate, acrylic, plastic, linoleum, etc.) will do.

When working with plants that contain poisons, you should always take heightened safety precautions, especially on clear days. Use tight, preferably rubber gloves, wear clothing that covers your body as much as possible, and avoid unnecessary contact with dangerous plants. If, through negligence, contact with poisons still occurs, seek qualified medical help.