Creeping Jenny

[Kurtkoinut]

I live in mid-Missouri. I never planted a single start of this stuff. Once fall began, I started seeing the creeping Jenny. It found it's way to my pond edge. It then grew right into the water.

I read up about the plant, and it seems to grow in, under, and around the water. It's doing a great job of that just in the last couple months.

Should I fear this plant?

 

[j.w]

Love that stuff when it stays near the pond but if it starts spreading out into the grass it gets clipped! If left to grow where it wants it will travel everywhere!

 

[addy1]

I just let it grow, but my yard is wilder than JW's I have the yellow and the green leafs. Love the little yellow flowers.

 

[Tula]

I really like it and it's pretty easy to control if you need to pull some out.

 

[GBBUDD]

That stuff loves my bogs pond and dry land it grows like a weed and it's not all that easy to irradiate

 

[addy1]

I really like it and it's pretty easy to control if you need to pull some out.

That stuff loves my bogs pond and dry land it grows like a weed and it's not all that easy to irradiate

Guess it all depends on your area weather, Mine grows good where it is growing, I have done nothing to control it, it had not really left the pond area. In fact some places I planted it is struggling to grow. I wish it would grow better!

It does grow great in the bog and in the stream.

 

[mrsclem]

I live in mid-Missouri. I never planted a single start of this stuff. Once fall began, I started seeing the creeping Jenny. It found it's way to my pond edge. It then grew right into the water.

I read up about the plant, and it seems to grow in, under, and around the water. It's doing a great job of that just in the last couple months.

Should I fear this plant?

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Does it have yellow flowers or tiny white ones? If its the tiny white flower, its an invasive weed.

 

[LHB]

I live in mid-Missouri. I never planted a single start of this stuff. Once fall began, I started seeing the creeping Jenny. It found it's way to my pond edge. It then grew right into the water.

I read up about the plant, and it seems to grow in, under, and around the water. It's doing a great job of that just in the last couple months.

Should I fear this plant?

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It is highly invasive but just pull out what you don't want, like any other weed. Leave a little bit because it really is pretty. By next year it will all be back.

 

[addy1]

Mine has barely spread in 10 years. Wish it would do better

 

[GBBUDD]

My creeping jenny spreads a minimum of 2 feet each shoot every year it ads up alright. im in 6b and as long as it has water or grows and grows.

On my stone wall i placed a rubber liner that had some punctures so water will slowly bleed out on the top trench. Then filled it with top soil and plants that like shade and moisture. ie creeping jenny

@addy1 do you have the green or the yellow?

 

[j.w]

Creeping Jenny (Green leaves and yellow flowers) here is really taking over in a lot of area's around my whole pond! I don't mind as long as I can keep it off the grass. Pretty easy to do!

 

[GBBUDD]

Creeping jenny is exploding here one little shoot and its off to the races. you can see the stonee wall below that i built two years ago and unfortunately ripped apart yesterday . there was twice as much creping jenny you could hardly see the stone wall on the bottom. i remove two large clumps that were larger than the one on the left. this is being done for the hostas. so it can grow the jenny chokes it out

 

[Lisak1]

I pulled out so much creeping Jenny this year - she gets her name for a reason. Like @GBBUDD mentioned, creeping Jenny will will the battle against most any other plant so if it's happy around your pond, you'll need to contain it. Mine is generally more yellow because it grows in the sun - the parts that grow in the shade are the deeper green.

Here's the mass I removed this spring - left just a few sprigs so I'm sure I'll be at it again next year. It is a great ground cover that you can walk on with no worries about damaging it.

 

[j.w]

I'm not much worried about Creeping Jenny but the Forget Me Not's are outta hand big time. I read they spread by seeds and roots. I'm gonna start pulling them up like crazy. They are pretty when they bloom but after that they are a nightmare!

 

[Hound Heaven]

I thought watercress was a pain but Jenny is worse. I've pulled buckets of the stuff that crept across my boundary rocks and into the water. Hopefully I've kept it out of the grass and certainly I'm glad that I never put it in the bog. It is attractive and vigorous and conceals all sorts of things that you may want to conceal, but it got way too happy for my tastes.