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Things that are REALLY annoying me in my garden😡

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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    My clematis has got huge (not a Montana). It's fallen off the fence  -wind and weight of rainwater. I can't get it back onto the fence because it's so unwieldy and it's too tangled to prune. I've a good mind to cut it right back and forego the flowers.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    The plants that I plant don't annoy me, most I enjoy, the ones I don't I dig up. But weeds really bug me, bindweed, nettles, goosegrass, creeping buttercup. The other culprits are moles 
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • strelitzia32strelitzia32 Posts: 758
    My hedgerow. It's just starting to hit its stride now, enormous amounts of growth. Don't get me wrong, it looks beautiful, and the birds love it, but in a few weeks it will have invaded everywhere with various combinations of spikes, thorns, stings and skin irritants. I then have to live with a shaggy length of mess until I get it cut back in September.

    I even started a late clematis through a piece of it to see if that helped - now I just have a spiky, thorny area with clematis flowers I can only see if I stand on a ladder. Great job.
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    Most things that I plant and dislike after a year I pull out and sell or give away. My problem is impatience. If I let them to settle and get on with it, they would probably be fine in five years. But I might be dead and gone by then.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    That's why I don't plant biennials. I think you need to be a glass half full type😉
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • LoxleyLoxley Posts: 5,698
    I've got a trachycarpus in a pot,  looks a bit yellow and tatty and doesn't really add anything to the garden. I'm loathe to get rid of it for some reason although it hardly "sparks joy"
    "What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour". 
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    That's the trouble with evergreens. You can't murder them in their sleep😒
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • BijdezeeBijdezee Posts: 1,484
    We have a neighbour next door but one who does not seem to have any volume control. Like a megaphone with even ordinary speech and she laughs like a maniac. I'm glad I'm not right next door.

    I am annoyed with the following plants: cornflowers, chamomile and nigella, simply everywhere, flopping over paths etc.

    Really fed up with Choysia getti g sunburn when it's supposed to like full sun.

    Next doors cat lying slap bang in the middle of my coreopsis and flattening it.  Plus... Where is my frog?? Missing for 3 days now. 


  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Bijdezee said:

    Next doors cat lying slap bang in the middle of my coreopsis and flattening it.  Plus... Where is my frog?? Missing for 3 days now. 


    Methinks these may be connected
    Devon.
  • GemmaJFGemmaJF Posts: 2,286
    Bijdezee said:


    Next doors cat lying slap bang in the middle of my coreopsis and flattening it.  Plus... Where is my frog?? Missing for 3 days now. 


    Why do I have a horrible feeling those two sentences may be related.. ..I was very restrained in my post earlier not to mention the 'C' word  :D
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