Best Vs Worst Fast-Spreading Perennials — What To Plant

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Fast-spreading perennials can either fill your garden beautifully — or become a problem you spend years trying to control.
In this video, we compare the BEST vs WORST fast-spreading perennials and explain exactly how each plant spreads through clumps, runners, underground rhizomes, or self-seeding.
You’ll learn which spreading perennials are useful for groundcover and pollinator gardens, which should be planted with caution, and which aggressive plants can quickly take over flower beds.
Plants covered include creeping phlox, catmint, wild strawberry, bee balm, obedient plant, common milkweed, yarrow, lily of the valley, goutweed, periwinkle, and mint.
We’ll separate them into:
BEST SPREADERS — useful, manageable plants that fill space
USE WITH CAUTION — beautiful plants that need room and control
HIGH-RISK — aggressive spreaders that may become difficult to remove
Before planting any fast-growing perennial, the important question isn’t just “How fast does it grow?”
It’s “How does it spread — and will I still want it five years from now?”

Sources — every claim in this video is traced to university Cooperative Extension research:
NC State Extension — Extension Gardener Plant Toolbox
Penn State Extension
University of Minnesota Extension
University of Maryland Extension
University of Illinois Extension
Iowa State University Extension
Colorado State University Extension
University of Maine Cooperative Extension
University of Wisconsin Extension
Oregon State University Extension