We have lots of wild strawberries but they are small alpine types so easy to remove. They taste great though, tiny flavour bombs.
Biggest thugs I have are gaultheria ( 2 varieties) and laurel. Holly, oak, cherry, hazel and beech spring up everywhere too and the garden would be a forest if I didn't remove many dozens of sapling every year. Honeysuckle azalea appears all over too.
It's a food source for the hawkmoths, but really - could they not find something less invasive? I'm paranoid when I come back from local walks because the r***y seeds all stick to me. Not sure we even get hawkmoths here though - I think they might get them further east, but not sure. It would be a tough choice
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I think Verbena bonariensis will be in my garden forever more... seedlings pop up all over. Even in the lawn. But it's easily dealt with and I like it, so that's fine. Crocosmia is a total b#**er in mum's garden. It's just evil. I am not that enthusiastic about crocosmia so I won't be planting it in my own garden. I've had to deal with rampant Japanese anemones in the past... I like them but I am hesitant about planting them here.
"What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour".
Wild strawbs are everywhere here, fine in the meadows and grassy bits, they just get mowed down, but think they need the equivalent of a sunken bamboo barrier to keep them out of the beds. I have never grown Japanese Anemones and you have convinced me never to do so!
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
My nemesis is crocosmia. The previous owner planted some next to several mature shrubs. I am never going to get them from the shrubs roots and they spread from there. I also have some mixed with bamboo. Fun.
Cornus - yes. I have one of those with nice winter bark colour. I think it won't stay long. Japanese anemones and euphorbias - both spreading but manageable.
Lily of the valley. So far they look like not spreading too much but I wanted to plant something close to them and so I know there are shoots 30cm under ground, 50+cm far from them. I guess they will explode the next year. (But they won't because I am going to get rid of them.)
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Biggest thugs I have are gaultheria ( 2 varieties) and laurel. Holly, oak, cherry, hazel and beech spring up everywhere too and the garden would be a forest if I didn't remove many dozens of sapling every year. Honeysuckle azalea appears all over too.
I'm paranoid when I come back from local walks because the r***y seeds all stick to me. Not sure we even get hawkmoths here though - I think they might get them further east, but not sure. It would be a tough choice
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Japanese anemones and euphorbias - both spreading but manageable.