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

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  • debs64debs64 Posts: 5,184
    Another vote for bindweed here. 
  • WonkyWombleWonkyWomble Posts: 4,541
    The boundaries so I could have a bigger garden and use the forgotten wasteland that the neighbours neglect 😉
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    @tui34 I don't know what you mean😊
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Butterfly66Butterfly66 Posts: 970
    The boundaries so I could have a bigger garden and use the forgotten wasteland that the neighbours neglect 😉
    Oh that’s a good idea, we’ve a bit of wasteland behind us too….
     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
  • WonkyWombleWonkyWomble Posts: 4,541
    Thinking outside the box @Butterfly66 😉
  • AsarumAsarum Posts: 661
    Old building foundations!  I only have a small garden anyway but what there is seems to have 19th centuary archaeology underneath.
    East Anglia
  • ErgatesErgates Posts: 2,953
    steephill said:
    Gaultheria shallon. It spreads by underground stems which form a dense interlocking mat. I need to use my trusty pickaxe to break through and hoick it up a piece at a time.
    Another vote for Gaultheria shallon. Evil stuff. Previous owners had the garden planned and planted by ‘professionals’ and covered one of the slopes with the stuff. Wonderful ground cover, including all the ground and pathways you didn’t want covered. Plus the birds love the berries, and then cr*p the seeds round the garden. There are big patches of the stuff coming up under the trees in our woodland. Apparently it is classified as a major pest in Oregon and Washington state, and notoriously difficult to get rid of. I think these must have been the same gardeners who planted the ( very pretty) skunk cabbage in the bog garden!
  • GearóidGearóid Posts: 198
    Ivy. Such a pain to try to dig out. It creeps under the hedge so I often don't even notice it until it pokes out the top. 
  • AsarumAsarum Posts: 661
    Well @Gearoid I hope you've got a hard hat in readiness.  I am happy with ivy taking over the countryside (which is happening round here), but not in my garden or on the neighbouring fences.
    East Anglia
  • SherwoodArrowSherwoodArrow Posts: 284
    edited March 2022
    Vine weevils 

    I don’t really know why we need vine weevils in nature either, I always think there a bit like head lice/nits, pointless 😉.
    Nottinghamshire.
    Failure is always an option.

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