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What is your most problematic weed you find?

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  • PlantmindedPlantminded Posts: 3,580
    Something that looks very much like a tiny Euphorbia.  It was in all the paths and borders when I moved here 9 years ago.  It's easy to remove by hand but still makes an appearance now and then!  Is it Euphorbia peplus, petty spurge?  Sorry can't provide photos it hasn't popped up yet!
    Wirral. Sandy, free draining soil.


  • I leave some herb robert as it is a favourite for the bees in my garden and I mean you do get a nice flower with the Welsh poppy,you can't complain. 😆
    Happy Gardening
  • NollieNollie Posts: 7,529
    Bindweed everywhere with roots growing through my bedrock and heading to the other side of the planet. Impossible to dig out fully. Couch grass, mind your own business and all sorts of creeping horrors deliberately sown as part of a ‘lawn’ mix by a previous occupant - a constant battle to keep out of flower beds.
    Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    I love Welsh poppies and grow them on purpose.
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    creeping woodsorrel in my polytunnel. 
    Sends a needle thing tap root down amongst clumps of hostas and they just snap off and regrow. Roundup each spring knocks them back
    Devon.
  • AnniDAnniD Posts: 12,585
    I know the stuff you mean @Plantminded. I'm pretty sure that it arrived in my garden courtesy of some bags of well rotted manure from our local young farmers.
    No good deed goes unpunished. That was some years ago and l've just about got on top of it. At least it's easy to spot and pull out.
  • gjautosgjautos Posts: 429
    Green alkanet. Gets everywhere and is a right bugger to dig out. Always seems to grow in the middle of something else.
  • WoodgreenWoodgreen Posts: 1,273
    gjautos said:
    Green alkanet. Gets everywhere and is a right bugger to dig out. Always seems to grow in the middle of something else.
    And it's always big! Does it mature overnight?
  • Creeopiing buttercup - it twines itself into the middle of other plants, is driving me nuts
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    Bindweed, celandines and the .....urban thingie. (It's getting late and I'm tired!).
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
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