Currently working on making a native plant garden and fighting a war against Chinese Privet, Oriental Bittersweet, and TOH. Found these pop up today and just want to make sure they aren’t one of those or invasive in general and I don’t need to pull them? Can anyone identify?
I just finished ripping out and getting rid of a system of privet in my backyard and decided to turn it into a native plant garden. I started with some milkweed and put it in the ground about 2 weeks ago. I live on a pretty steep hill, so I assume the soil is pretty well-draining and I’m in Southeast TN (zone 8a). We haven’t had any rain pretty much up until last night we got a lot of rain, so I’ve been giving my milkweeds small amounts of water every 4-5 days. I just want to make sure I’m going in the right direction because my common milkweed seems like it’s not doing too great, and my tall green milkweed as well. I have my common and tall green at the very top of the hill, they get sunlight 8+ hours a day, but the tall green is seeming to bend over and the common milkweed is getting eaten up by bugs and also the leaves are wilting a bit. I have my butterfly milkweed on the hill, but it gets around 5.5 hours of sun a day, it seems to be doing okay, but isn’t growing very quickly. Based off the pictures, is there anything I should be doing differently? Should I switch the butterfly milkweed and common milkweeds locations? Or just see how it plays out?