Should you collect flowers growing by the road and plant them in your garden? “Don’t do it,” said Sharon Yiesla, plant knowledge specialist at The Morton Arboretum in Lisle. “There’s a good risk that you will bring home a big problem.”
Oh, what pretty flowers growing by the roadside! Maybe I should stop and get some of those for my garden!
“If they reproduce freely enough to dominate in the roadside, they’re likely to out-compete many of your other plants,” Yiesla said. These seductive blooms also are often invasive plants that spread to disrupt ecosystems in natural areas. “If you grow them in your garden, you’re adding to that problem,” she said.One risky plant is dame’s rocket , a biennial with showy flowers in shades of white to purple, which is often mistaken for garden phlox . “Dame’s rocket spreads like crazy,” she said.
Resist collecting plants such as creeping bellflower from roadsides or alleys. They are likely to be aggressive spreaders that cause long-lasting problems in a garden. Alleys and vacant lots are as full of treacherous plants as roadsides. For example, creeping bellflower , with attractive spikes of purple bell-like blooms, is shade-tolerant and reseeds freely. If transplanted into an urban garden, it produces armies of seedlings and can also sprout new plants from its spreading root system. “That’s what makes it a real nightmare,” Yiesla said.
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