Hi...

[InvasiveCreeper]

My moniker is Invasive Creeper. I'm from Illinois, Zone 5. Nice to meet everyone

 

[Becky]

Hello and welcome aboard! What is your background in gardening?

 

[Beth_B]

Welcome!
Love your user name.

 

[CanadianLori]

Welcome to the forum and a big thank you for filling in your profile info about your growing zone!

 

[Sheal]

Hi and welcome to the forums InvasiveCreeper.

 

[Trellum]

Hi there! Interesting nickname Nice to meet you and welcome to the forum. Just wanted to take the time to welcome you to our community, I hope you like it here and find the forum really useful By the way, interesting avatar picture Is it what I am thinking it is?

 

[InvasiveCreeper]

Thank you everyone, for the warm welcome.

Becky, I've been gardening since I was a child. I learned from my grandmother. Over the years I have studied and continued to learn. That's what I love about gardening, we are always constantly learning more.

Beth, thank you... I love hardy, determined vines that can grow under almost any condition.

 

[InvasiveCreeper]

Trellum.... thanks. A woodland goat-creature... (different cultures give them different names). My name reflects my love for unstoppable, rebellious vines. I grow many vines.

 

[Beth_B]

Thank you everyone, for the warm welcome.

Becky, I've been gardening since I was a child. I learned from my grandmother. Over the years I have studied and continued to learn. That's what I love about gardening, we are always constantly learning more.

Beth, thank you... I love hardy, determined vines that can grow under almost any condition.

Great. Can I send you all my creeping charlie? Hardy, determined and definitely an invasive creeper that grows under any conditions!

 

[InvasiveCreeper]

Beth,

That would be great, they would get a good home. I have actually grown Creeping Charlie (glechoma hederacea) from seed and have many in pots as houseplants.

 

[Beth_B]

Beth,

That would be great, they would get a good home. I have actually grown Creeping Charlie (glechoma hederacea) from seed and have many in pots as houseplants.

You're weird, LOL.
I know it has medicinal benefits (can't recall details but read up on it a while back) and the flowers are cute and attract bees. I don't mind it for the most part except it tends to get in and strangle the veggies and perennial beds. I pull a lot of it up every growing season. I have several planters outdoors that I never got around to planting anything in this spring, and just let them fill up with creeping charlie and clover.

 

[InvasiveCreeper]

Beth,

LOL

Yes, the flowers are attractive. It's in the mint family. It's also called ground ivy. It's a fierce little plant.

 

[Becky]

Over the years I have studied and continued to learn. That's what I love about gardening, we are always constantly learning more.

Couldn't agree more!

 

[sixxup]

You are welcome! We have shared more about gardening and am proud to welcome you to this forum. Hope you will share your gardening experience with us.

 

[InvasiveCreeper]

Thanks Becky

Thank you Sixxup

So nice, the diversity here, Great Britain, Kenya... It will be wonderful to hear such perspectives. My family is very traditional. I am half Lithuanian and half German. Lithuanians are tied strongly to nature and gardening, and the old Germans always had a strong connection to nature as well. So I have been influenced a lot in this regard.