Do you have this planted in your yard? I started out with about 6 plants from a local nursery. These plants are pretty but they sure can take over a flower bed. The seed are unseen with the naked eye, even with glasses & magifying glass, LOL. I have babies coming up in the gravel, between bricks on patio, just all over the place. The only thing I do not like is when they freeze, its ugly. I have to cut them all back to the ground...(good food for the cattle). I am about good & ready to dig up all of them & trash them. Too much work involved.

I think I would like a plain simple plant that does not freeze, stays pretty & green all year with very little maintenance. I think I found that in the cast iron plant. You see them planted around those gracious live oak trees on old homesites.