New "companion" plant for hosta - LOL

twoblackdogs · Post by **twoblackdogs** » Jul 25, 2008 2:52 pm

My apologies in advance to those of you who like this plant... but this made me laugh today, so I thought I would share.

I got an email this morning from a friend. She was forwarding a picture from another friend of an unknown new plant that had somehow appeared in her hosta plantings. The email went on & on about what a neat plant it was, and she didn't know how it got there and how pretty the flowers were and as a bonus the deer didn't like it.
My friend forwarded it to me, as she knows I have hosta and thought I would know what it is and maybe I would want one.

Intrigued, I opened the email......to see a picture of a giant Pokeweed standing in a huge clump of Royal Standard.
I cracked up as I'd just been weeding small ones by the dozens out of my beds this morning - it's a bumper crop this year. I politely declined the plant offer, but ID'd it for them.

eastwood2007 · Post by **eastwood2007** » Jul 25, 2008 3:07 pm

I had to google it to see what it was...we have them, too, I just didn't ever know what they were called. 'Hard to pull out' is what I remember about them.

Ginger · Post by **Ginger** » Jul 25, 2008 3:41 pm

Ginger

Arlene · Post by **Arlene** » Jul 25, 2008 10:48 pm

Been there, done that! In my early gardening years, I carefully tended a pokeweed clear through the growing season . . . I'd put in several new perennials the previous fall and assumed this was just a very successful one! When it outgrew everything else, I finally did some checking . . . my green thumb contrasted nicely with my red face.

renaldo75 · Post by **renaldo75** » Jul 26, 2008 11:28 am

I've been doing battle with those gorgeous plants too. And I need to get my pruning spade in action soon for a couple of the tall ones.

The berries are beautiful. Just don't let even one of them fall to the ground.

Annie · Post by **Annie** » Jul 26, 2008 12:45 pm

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder

hostanquilts · Post by **hostanquilts** » Jul 26, 2008 1:29 pm

If anyone wants any, I have lots of them here. I had read that the birds like the berries, so I let them grow a couple years & now I have tooooo many, so I've been pulling or digging them up as I find them. Never did see the birds eating them.

Annie · Post by **Annie** » Jul 26, 2008 3:32 pm

Oh they eat them alright. Then they poop on your car!!