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After reading the "Your worst invasive" thread (mine, like many other's is creeping Charlie), it made me think of the plants that grew around houses I've moved from that were my favorite 'invasives' - not really invasives, but plants that were there and just thrived during our time there.
In my last house, an older lannon stone cottage with well established perennials, there were beautiful plantings. But, the plants I miss the most are the abundant ferns, trumpet vines that grew up the east side of the stone, Bleeding Hearts, and the prolific, well established berries (raspberries, strawberries, and blueberries). I've yet to have success, like that, with the strawberries and blueberries in the 'new yard'. Haven't tried ferns and the vines just wouldn't be the same crawling up vinyl siding : -)
The raspberries, however, are coming along nicely.
There have been some advantages to moving away from Lake Michigan and to a higher elevation, as far as gardening goes - earlier planting, longer season, more direct sunshine. But, the trade off has been having to deal with clay soil that requires a huge amount of working and compost, less humidity and, some of my favorite plants do not thrive as well.
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