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Post by Ladygardener on Apr 22, 2011 4:14:48 GMT
I love Violets but have never seen them in any of the garden centres here or indeed in any of the gardens.
I nearly bought a little Vinca but thought it might take over if I did.
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Post by Jasmine on Apr 22, 2011 7:37:14 GMT
You've just reminded me about Vinca LG - OH planted a tiny bit at the top of the drive - Carol Klein calls it 'enthusiastic' which is a polite way of putting it!
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Post by Auricula on Apr 22, 2011 7:38:40 GMT
I bought 2 vinca minors at Rosemoor, 5 years ago.......................they've hardly spread at all.......I feel "done"!!! ;D
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Post by Geranium on Apr 22, 2011 14:45:49 GMT
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Post by Chuckles on May 1, 2011 7:29:29 GMT
Achillea has just gone on my list, the more common yellow one. Nice plant for foliage, flowers heads nice too but boy does it spread  |
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Post by Barbara on May 1, 2011 7:47:47 GMT
Ajuga, it's now growing up through my sea pinks .  |
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Post by Auricula on May 1, 2011 8:08:20 GMT
I've just bought a Vinca Major, to see if it'll spread where the v. minor wouldn't  |
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Post by Geranium on May 1, 2011 8:44:22 GMT
Auricula, shall I pot up some of my double Vinca minor for you?
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Post by Auricula on May 1, 2011 9:00:56 GMT
Ooh, yes please, if it's not too much trouble Geranium  |
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Post by Geranium on May 1, 2011 20:26:18 GMT
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Post by Chuckles on May 7, 2011 11:09:05 GMT
Another one on my list is Galium odoratum/sweet woodruff www.plantsforshade.co.uk/acatalog/info_953.html it spreads like mad and its worse than coach grass to get rid of, I've started to spray the blasted stuff as its got all between the stone edging. It is pretty if you can keep it on check. |
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Post by Geranium on May 7, 2011 11:59:49 GMT
I do think that GCs and Nurseries should be honest about the plants they sell...there should be a new symbol on the label to warn people about probable invasive plants. I have Phuopsis stylosa, which is very pretty - but you try keeping it in check! I wouldn't have planted it myself - I inherited it, and it's not just in one place in the garden.  |
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Post by Deleted on May 7, 2011 21:00:26 GMT
There are som mang things on here I've also got in my garden that annoy the hell out of me, especially as most of them I never planted in the first place ! One thing not mentioned on here is grape hyacinth. I've been digging it out for 10 years and yet it STILL keeps appearing  We also have forget-me-nots, which I detest and dig out as soon as I see them but they still keep reappearing and one of the japanese anemones which I've given up trying to get rid of now because it just keeps coming back so I reckon I might as well leave it in !! FA x |
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Post by maggy on May 7, 2011 22:05:39 GMT
I agree with the grape hycinth  its not too bad while in flower but when the flowers go it looks like grass all over the border! crocosmia is another Im sick of pulling up , it still comes back but the thing thats driving me CRAZY is the bl--dy Mind your own buisness!! Do you think the last peole planted it?? Id never seen it before I came here  Ive spent all afternoon hand raking it its like a carpet all through the front border under shrubs over stones its like a dicease!!sp! |
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Post by Auricula on May 8, 2011 8:33:04 GMT
Mind your own business is rampant here - lawns,paths,ground cover....it doesn't care  |
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Post by Jasmine on May 8, 2011 9:08:05 GMT
I'd forgotten about grape hyacinth FA. I still dig up clumps although I never planted it in the first place and the Spanish bluebells - I can't get them all out and some pop up every year. I didn't plant those either.
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Post by Jilly on May 8, 2011 10:01:51 GMT
Luckily the few little clumps of grape hyacinths in my garden don't spread hardly at all. Spanish Bluebells though i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd161/GWDAdmin1/Smilies/Default/angry.gif and the Montbretia that I pull out by the bin bag load every year. They were here when I moved in though. As for things I planted & shouldn't have, definitely Centranthus Ruber (Red Valerian). It came in a mixed seed collection of White flowers that I scattered in the front garden years ago. After the first year it & the Dog Daisies were the only things left & the White Valerian quickly changed to pink. I've managed to get most of it out of the borders, so now it just confines itself to the path, the driveway and it even grows out of the house walls i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd161/GWDAdmin1/Smilies/Default/rolleyes.gif I've also got the dreaded Pink Geranium but it was one of the first things that my Mum gave me to start my garden off so it's got sort of a sentimental value (within reason) I do find it a great gap holder though that can be pulled out when I want to plant something else. Jillyx |
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Post by Geranium on May 9, 2011 9:22:28 GMT
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Post by Chuckles on May 9, 2011 11:50:20 GMT
I've just been walking around the garden looking and  why did I ever plant Centaurea/Cornflower. I do actualy like them but they always flop about and smother plants close by, doesn't help that I have them at the front of the border either I've cut them down and put the flowers in a bucket and will wait now for new growth and move them or give them away. |
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Post by Barbara on May 9, 2011 12:15:08 GMT
Grape hyacynth.
ajuga.
crocosmia montbretia.
scysostylis (sp)
Welsh poppies
we class all as invasive, my neighbour classes aquelega as invasive, the man at the top of the street says field poppies, my friend says alstromeras.
one mans meat and all that.
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Post by Geranium on May 9, 2011 13:44:16 GMT
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Post by Jilly on May 9, 2011 15:40:44 GMT
Strange isn't it, Welsh Poppies & Byzantine gladioli are everywhere in my Mums garden, I keep pinching bits but they only just hang on (well the Welsh Poppies are doing better this time). I've also had to have a few goes to get her Winter Aconites to establish (she's even got them growing in her lawn). I may have exaggerated the just pull them up bit with the Pink Geraniums, more like pull them up again & again & again i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd161/GWDAdmin1/Smilies/Default/grin.gif I think I'm probably leaving bits of root behind. Jillyx |
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Post by Chuckles on Feb 19, 2014 13:46:25 GMT
Just been reading through this thread and wondered why some plants go mad for some and take over and for others they don't  One I'd like to add is Perennial Sunflower/Sunflower x laetiflorus/Helianthus x laetiflorus/Showy Sunflower after seeing them in Portugal some years ago I tracked down seed and was well chuffed the first time they flowered. It was until a couple of years later I realised they have spreading rhizomatous roots once established, to be fair it did warn about this on the seed packet. I've moved mine to a more managable place in the garden as I still like them |
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Post by Jasmine on Apr 7, 2014 11:35:58 GMT
Another one on my list is Galium odoratum/sweet woodruff www.plantsforshade.co.uk/acatalog/info_953.html it spreads like mad and its worse than coach grass to get rid of, I've started to spray the blasted stuff as its got all between the stone edging. It is pretty if you can keep it on check. Oh grief yes!!! I couldn't get it going initially and now I can't beat it into submission!
The other thing that fills me with dread is white rosebay willowherb - they had used it in one of the small gardens featured in this months EG - it spreads like nobodies business. I grow mine in big pots buried in the ground now as well as the euphorbia that likes being in the shade... robbiae
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Post by Ladygardener on Apr 7, 2014 12:40:51 GMT
I keep it in check but the white snowflake geranium wants to take over my garden. It very quickly makes a big mound and although I love it I can't have it everywhere.
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Post by pothead on Apr 8, 2014 21:36:58 GMT
I have a few things i wish i`d not planted , Leycesteria or Himalayan honeysuckle I`m still finding seedling years after removing the vigorous shrub. crocosmia / montbretia , I dug it all up several years ago but make the big mistake of offering a few pieces to my neighbour so It`s slowly making it`s way back into my garden . Foxgloves are driving me nuts, I added some to the compost bin full of seeds and now my veg beds are full of them . . Alcamilla mollis is another beast , hard to pull up and seeds everywhere. I`m glad to hear what others on the forum have had problems with so I can avoid them like sweet woodruff, I have been keen to grow some from seed because of the lovely scent they are supposed to have. I am nurturing a cutting I received of a pink Anemone Japonica , is that the one that is invasive ? It looks so nice  |
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Post by Ladygardener on Apr 12, 2014 4:32:40 GMT
It's funny how some things are thugs in one persons garden and struggle to grow in others. Many of what folk think of as weeds/thugs/unwanted are plants I've bought and love to see in my garden.
I went ahead and bought my Vinca, I see back in 2011 I'd been wanting one. I'm glad I bought it and it has settled in well, I'll keep it under control as I have to with all plants in my garden as it's so small. Alcamilla Mollis barely survives in my garden and I've been keeping my fingers crossed that the perennial cornflower will give a better show this year now it has a bit of room.
Perennial Geranium Johnsons Blue I love but to give it the space it needs, I need to grow it at the allotment where everyone who sees it admires it. It too grew too big for my garden.
Everyone says that Euphorbia Fireglow is a bit of a thug too but I thankfully keep it in control as well, it's such a beautiful plant.
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Post by Tig on Apr 24, 2014 18:56:35 GMT
My 'wish I had never planted' today is the jerusalem artichokes! Despite digging the old border over and over before replanting it I found a forest of new shoots appearing today, and as I can't move all the plants now I just hope that snapping the new growth off when I see it will weaken the dratted things |
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its not too bad while in flower but when the flowers go it looks like grass all over the border! crocosmia is another Im sick of pulling up , it still comes back but the thing thats driving me CRAZY is the bl--dy Mind your own buisness!! Do you think the last peole planted it?? Id never seen it before I came here 
Ive spent all afternoon hand raking it its like a carpet all through the front border under shrubs over stones its like a dicease!!sp!
