Comments on How to Grow Bishop's Weed (Aegopodium Podagraria)

Do not ever plant bishop's weed. Future generations of owners of your land will curse you. I have been doing battle with it for over 20 years, and I am losing. You can dig it out and dig it out, but if you leave one tiny little piece of the root in the ground, the plant will come roaring back.

Do not ever plant bishop's weed. Future generations of owners of your land will curse you. I have been doing battle with it for over 20 years, and I am losing. You can dig it out and dig it out, but if you leave one tiny little piece of the root in the ground, the plant will come roaring back.

I am just not a gardener. The front bed was always nasty and weedy, and I was forever fighting it ... until I transplanted Aegopodium. This is my idea of a perfect bed. A lovely plant that gardens itself and chokes out ugly weeds. Bring it on!

I have had this in my two front yard gardens for about 9 years now. It works very well with the peony bush I planted in the middle of the Bishop's weed. When they both come up together, it looks like a giant bouquet with the tiny flowers and beautiful leaves. One thing to be very aware of is it does tend to grow out. The area you plant it in should be a contained area. Before the flowers drop their heads and blow around, be sure to cut them off or you will have some plants growing where you don't want them. I have them in two areas of my yard, one is in full sun to partial shade (in the afternoon, and early morning) the other is under a pine tree for ground cover (it is in the shade all the time and still grows wonderfully). The key is to be sure to contain the area you want the Bishop's weed to be in in, so it will stay there.

I have had this in my two front yard gardens for about 9 years now. It works very well with the peony bush I planted in the middle of the Bishop's weed. When they both come up together, it looks like a giant bouquet with the tiny flowers and beautiful leaves. One thing to be very aware of is it does tend to grow out. The area you plant it in should be a contained area. Before the flowers drop their heads and blow around, be sure to cut them off or you will have some plants growing where you don't want them. I have them in two areas of my yard, one is in full sun to partial shade (in the afternoon, and early morning) the other is under a pine tree for ground cover (it is in the shade all the time and still grows wonderfully). The key is to be sure to contain the area you want the Bishop's weed to be in in, so it will stay there.

I am just not a gardener. The front bed was always nasty and weedy, and I was forever fighting it ... until I transplanted Aegopodium. This is my idea of a perfect bed. A lovely plant that gardens itself and chokes out ugly weeds. Bring it on!

Do not ever have this in your garden. One day it will be everywhere and the only way to get rid of it is by getting new soil!

Do not ever have this in your garden. One day it will be everywhere and the only way to get rid of it is by getting new soil!

Don't plant Bishop's weed. Once you decide that it has gotten out of control (and the non variegated variety will get out of control) you'll need a bulldozer and a flamethrower to get rid of it. I am not exaggerating.

Don't plant Bishop's weed. Once you decide that it has gotten out of control (and the non variegated variety will get out of control) you'll need a bulldozer and a flamethrower to get rid of it. I am not exaggerating.

Bishops weed spreads under the surface of the ground. We have no problem controlling it because we use that black landscape border material that comes in rolls (approx 5" deep x 20 ' long). We just dig along the edge of where we want to stop the bishops weed and push the border material down level with the ground. You can't see the border, but it stops bishops weed roots from spreading. Try it, you'll like it!

If your bishop's weed turns brown and ugly, just mow it with the mower and in a few days it will be beautiful again.