Best way to plant aggressive plants
Looking for advice on which plants to include/exclude from my list of native plants. Also, for the best containers to bury to contain any aggressive species.
Full background - I live in a condo in St Louis, MO that has two 10’ x 2’ borders in the HOA garden. The borders are currently populated with Daylilies and I am looking to replace them with natives. Since most of the other residents are elderly, I wouldn’t want to plant anything that takes too much maintenance and/or is hard to remove.
I have the following plants in winter sowing containers - Agastache Foeniculum (Anise Hyssop), Liatris Spicata, Liatris Ligulistylis, Schizachyrium Scoparium (little bluestem), Helianthus Maximiliani, Hypericum Perforatum (St John Wort), Echinacea Purpurea, Verbena Bonariensis.
Soil is clayey and compact. I intend on timing them round spring rains and minimal to no supplemental watering.
Feeling conflicted about Maximilian sunflower but it also seems like the only one that can stand against the Daylilies.
Posted Dec 29, 2025, 6:41 PM UTC