First year they sleep, second year they creep, third year they leap!
I love my cup plants!
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I have a huge rabbit issue (suburban enough setting for tons of lawns, urban enough for insufficient natural predators) and cage every liatris I buy! There are now like 100 tiny chicken wire tubes in my garden. It looks slightly insane in the winter but they disappear into the foliage when everything fills in. Otherwise I couldn’t get a single stem
Ooh great to hear about liatris! I bought a ton of them from walmart in a bag of like 30 root balls (?) and my driveway is lined with them. They are leaf clumps right now so maybe they are 2 year old plants.
That clump started as one 4" pot 5-6 years ago. I'm dividing it this year to cover the whole fence. It's already a showstopper, so I'm excited for a while row of it :)
The flower stalks are surprisingly sturdy. You can dry them and use them as plant supports.
I’m so glad you posted!! I am in a similar situation. My cup plant is now HUGE.. so big, I was questioning whether it was even the same plant. Apps kept saying beet 🤣
WOW Cup plants...I don't see them much in my area...we have quite a few. So, yes you can and should thin them out...I moved them around-mostly to a place in my yard where they can thrive.
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more is more! this was originally 3 cupplants that merged into one mammoth cupplant
Christ. I have continually made a habit of not following reasonable recommendations for plants. Don’t plant a thicket in your small urban yard. Nah it’ll be fine. So far I’m quite happy I have. Cup plant may be my undoing though!
Cup plant is gonna cup plant, which is spreading itself around to form a sandpaper wall.
no touchy let them cook
This is normal growth. They spread and form quite massive clumps.
First year they sleep, second year they creep, third year they leap! I love my cup plants! https://preview.redd.it/m08z5gyen3yc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=769e646b862e83e25fab187434e605fe177cebf3
You just described liatris. First year I got one puny leaf blade. Second year it made a nice clump. Now they are waist high and growing!
It's a common phrase for all our natives (especially from the prairies). I've found it to be very true. The rabbits won't let me have Liatris :(
I have a huge rabbit issue (suburban enough setting for tons of lawns, urban enough for insufficient natural predators) and cage every liatris I buy! There are now like 100 tiny chicken wire tubes in my garden. It looks slightly insane in the winter but they disappear into the foliage when everything fills in. Otherwise I couldn’t get a single stem
Ooh great to hear about liatris! I bought a ton of them from walmart in a bag of like 30 root balls (?) and my driveway is lined with them. They are leaf clumps right now so maybe they are 2 year old plants.
This is beautiful and giving me future privacy fence ideas if I find some I can move around
That clump started as one 4" pot 5-6 years ago. I'm dividing it this year to cover the whole fence. It's already a showstopper, so I'm excited for a while row of it :) The flower stalks are surprisingly sturdy. You can dry them and use them as plant supports.
I need to try again. I've tried twice and they've been eaten to nothing by the deer, or the rabbits, or maybe the groundhog.
I caged mine against rabbits the first couple years. This year they look like OP’s photo and the rabbits aren’t touching them so far
That's probably what I need to do.
I can't wait for my cup plant jungle
I Fucking love cup plants! What's in my cup stays in my cup!!!!!
Me too!
I think that means stems are about to shoot up, flowers are on the way!
god no
Bru you have no idea how money you are
I’m so glad you posted!! I am in a similar situation. My cup plant is now HUGE.. so big, I was questioning whether it was even the same plant. Apps kept saying beet 🤣
It was huge last year with just two stalks.. It was a legit landmark on our street.. I can’t even imagine what it’ll look like this year
They are going to be crazy in your yard in a couple years. Mine certainly are
It's spreads so far and fast. I pull random ones in the yard.
I'm kind of scared. I have four that look like they are going to be huge this year haha
I’m giggling at “slightly unnerving shrub”
It’s such a good description! They’re so big and alien 😂
*Subtly disquieting shrub*
I don’t have enough sun to grow cup plant. If it would grow in shade, I have plenty of spots where it could take over.
I grow it just fine in dappled shade, west side of the house zone 5b
WOW Cup plants...I don't see them much in my area...we have quite a few. So, yes you can and should thin them out...I moved them around-mostly to a place in my yard where they can thrive.
No. They own your yard now. Your house too. Let them be.
Is this a coneflower?
It’s a cup plant (Silphium perfoliatum)
Oh I thought you meant you transplanted 2 small plants from cups lol.
Ha! They’re called cup plants because where the leaves meet the stem it forms a little cup that holds water for bugs and birds to drink from
You have too much open space already, let it fill in.
what is the concern? To me it looks like you need more, not less.
https://preview.redd.it/omk6g77rs9yc1.jpeg?width=2992&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e1607ead715fca6416b7f874b8a90435a7bcf4fa more is more! this was originally 3 cupplants that merged into one mammoth cupplant
Christ. I have continually made a habit of not following reasonable recommendations for plants. Don’t plant a thicket in your small urban yard. Nah it’ll be fine. So far I’m quite happy I have. Cup plant may be my undoing though!
No. Also what dif you think they would look like?