I'm never growing Swiss chard again

CazW_2

nodwah wrote: »

THe thing I hate the most is possibly crocosmia - just the normal orange one, i can't eradicate it at all, drop a wee bulb and it comes back with avengence.

Jayar I love ordinary daisies tho, if I find one in my borders, I plant it in the lawn! Is this unusual behaviour, I get funny looks!

I love daiseys too.... my MIL's lawn is covered in them... keeps my eldes quiet for hours in the summer making daisey chains..lol

Caz

Plum_Pie

This thread is so interesting for the inexperienced!

After clearing out the ivy and planting a whole lot of perennials, I'm now wondering which I will end up regretting, which will spread the most!

Already the forget-me-nots I brought to light are flourishing!

navig8r

KatrinaC wrote: »

In fact, the only plant I can think of that I don't like at all are conifers. At some point in the past someone put two in at the bottom of the garden and they are now 40 feet tall, shade most of my veg patch and have made the bottom 10-15 feet of my garden so dry and unusable that I've just abandoned it. I wouldn't mind so much if they were like next door's weeping willow or fruit trees; at least they have some decorative purpose. Conifers are just sort of, well, green and pointy.

Kat

If it has prompted you express a dislike for them would it not be better to have them cut down and recover some space

Dave

Jayar

Plum_Pie wrote: »

This thread is so interesting for the inexperienced!

After clearing out the ivy and planting a whole lot of perennials, I'm now wondering which I will end up regretting, which will spread the most!

Already the forget-me-nots I brought to light are flourishing!

Oh, don't get me started on forget me nots. Nice little flowers though they are, they are almost as bad as the bellis :rotfl:
Here's a peculiar side note to this though. Some of my forget me nots are coming up pink Anyone have any idea why this should happen?

navig8r

Jayar wrote: »

Oh, don't get me started on forget me nots. Nice little flowers though they are, they are almost as bad as the bellis :rotfl:
Here's a peculiar side note to this though. Some of my forget me nots are coming up pink Anyone have any idea why this should happen?

We get them pink in places.. I thought it may be lime in the soil.

Dave

jap200

Japanese anemone - yes I know they look lovely in flower, but most of the time they are just scruffy leaves. They are also totally impossible to dig up - the roots go down very very deeply - like long thin parsnips and they regrow if even the tiniest deep bit of root is left behind. Also, glyphosate seems to have very little impact on them.

They were planted in several places in my garden when we moved in and as we have redesigned it we have attempted many times to move them. All that has happened though is that we end up multiplying them because as we dig one up to move it, we inevitably leave a little bit of root behind which regrows. The transplanted ones also thrive! I now have them growing in the lawn, the veg patch and right at the front of a couple of borders - the flowers can be up to 1m high so it looks a bit odd, but i have just decided to try and live with them.

BlondeHeadOn

Herb Robert (aka Red robin, Geranium robertianum) - this was introduced into my garden from a plant given to me by my neighbour. I also saw pots of Herb Robert being sold at a garden show, so I assumed it was okay(!) Pretty little plant, little pinky white flowers, turns a nice reddish colour in Autumn, ahhhh...

:eek: :eek: :eek:

It is now absolutely everywhere, and I spend most of the gardening year hoisting huge clumps of it out of every possible space in my garden.

There are also conflicting views about this little plant, depending on what you read. It is either a "supreme, therapeutic herb" or a "Class B noxious weed" which "poses a threat to forest understories and to plant biodiversity in forests....where it occurs there appear to be fewer native herbaceous species". It is also apparently sometimes known as "Stinky Bob" because of its distictive odour.

Have I sold it to you yet...?....?....

Plum_Pie

BlondeHeadOn wrote: »

Herb Robert (aka Red robin, Geranium robertianum) - this was introduced into my garden from a plant given to me by my neighbour.

This grows well on the wasteland behind my garden. I think it's v pretty but am not letting it in the garden as I don't want it to take over!

I've planted lots of other perennials in the garden so I'm hoping the forget-me-nots don't take over completely!

KatrinaC_2

navig8r wrote: »

If it has prompted you express a dislike for them would it not be better to have them cut down and recover some space

Dave

I'd love to but I live in a rented house. My landlord is happy for me to cut them down, but only if I replace them with something that will create a similar degree of privacy. I'd either need to put up a 15 foot high fence (expensive) or plant something that will grow to be the size of the original trees

Kat

christineperseus

Miró wrote: »

Jerusalem artichokes...aarrgghh:mad:

We planted some thinking it sounded a bit different. Nightmare to clean and prepare and gave us wind:o Dug the whole lot out in the end...or so we thought!!! Now pops up all over the place. Just how do you get rid of the stuff apart from going over the whole garden with a flamethrower and nasty chemicals!!???

The badgers came and dug ours up!