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If you could eliminate one thing from your garden - not the planet ......

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  • borgadrborgadr Posts: 718
    This time of year, lords-and-ladies (Arum maculatum) 
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    A veritable smorgasbord of PITA. I'm stunned and amazed. I expected only the two usual suspects.
    I still can't think of anything that I would like to totally eradicate, even in my garden. I'm certain that I have been too fortunate, tolerant or  lazy to give a ...... I assume the latter. I sort of enjoy the battle of wits .  I'm more into growing stuff than the grand design. This helps.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    Repetitive failures.
    Rutland, England
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    edited March 2022
    I try and appreciate that I have no honey fungus, Gaultheria shallon, horrible neighbours, Leylandii, ground elder, horsetail or half-rotted rabbit gorilla-bonded to the patio.

  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Gaultheria shallon
    I've never heard of that. It looks quite pretty.  Should I be worried 😟
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Bee witchedBee witched Posts: 1,295
    Pheasants.
    The b*st*rds decapitate every single snakes head fritillary flower ..... every year.

    Bee x
    Gardener and beekeeper in beautiful Scottish Borders  

    A single bee creates just one twelfth of a teaspoon of honey in her lifetime
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Are there no pheasant pluckers or even pheasant pluckers' sons in the area? Do we blame Brexit?  
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    B3 said:
    Gaultheria shallon
    I've never heard of that
     

    I haven't either. But I'm suddenly glad I don't have it.
  • Butterfly66Butterfly66 Posts: 970
    tui34 said:
    Hay @Butterfly66 and  @WillowBark   That's not fair!!! One answer only!!  
    I did only choose one finally….there was just several nominees 🤣
     If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”—Marcus Tullius Cicero
    East facing, top of a hill clay-loam, cultivated for centuries (7 years by me). Birmingham
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    . I suppose you could look at Gray's Anatomy and find a reason to be cheerful every day.😊
    In London. Keen but lazy.
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