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What is your most problematic weed you find?

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  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Lizzie27 said:
    Bindweed, celandines and the .....urban thingie. (It's getting late and I'm tired!).
    geum urbanum?
    Devon.
  • borgadrborgadr Posts: 718
    Arum maculatum everywhere at this time of year, but at least it dies back later. And through the year all over the garden: Geum urbanum, goose grass (Galium aparine) and lemon balm. They're the worst. 

    And some problem weeds only in certain parts of the garden: dock and cherry saplings in the meadow, couch grass in the small front garden beds, and nettles in the hedgerow.
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    edited March 2022
    Not really a proper "weed" in my garden, but I introduced wild valerian officianalis (a perennial) in my garden, on purpose, and it's gone crazy and self-seeded absolutely everywhere. Plants come up in the middle of roses, in paving and under fences and they have deep roots. I'm going to be digging it all out for years.  It's so hard to get out from inside a rose bush. I enjoy it as a plant - the height and the flowers - but it's way to happy with my garden. 🙄
  • newbie77newbie77 Posts: 1,838
    Phygelius capensis (Cape fuschia) . It has a root network of over 50 feet in my garden. Next the root network of snowberry. 
    I am finding bulb weeds harder to get rid. Day lilies, bluebells and wild onions. Anyway at least they don't look too bad. 
    South West London
  • newbie77newbie77 Posts: 1,838
    Woodgreen said:
    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?
    Lol. Yes it is always so big  :D
    South West London
  • Mr. Vine EyeMr. Vine Eye Posts: 2,394
    In my garden it’s the “couch grass corner”. Can never get rid of it all.

    At my allotment its bindweed. I also have horsetail but bindweed is definitely worse if it gets hold of something. Horsetail can just be pulled out.
    East Yorkshire
  • Hairybittercress is what I have. A nightmare.
  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    For me it's the spanish bluebells (annual removal season coming up soon) and the allium with the skinny grassy foliage and teeny tiny bulbs. It's so easy to miss some and more seem to come back every year.
    I have quite a lot of hairy bittercress and loads of the creeping toadflax stuff, and some sticky willy, but they're all fairly easy to pull out. Bird-gift brambles are always appearing along the fence line too but I try to get them out before they get big.
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • KeenOnGreenKeenOnGreen Posts: 1,831
    Hairybittercress and Creeping Oxalis, they are persistant buggers. At the allotment it's bindweed, and the odd Bramble, plus gazillions of Willowherb on the paths.
  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    How could I forget willowherb? The masters of disguise, but easy enough to pull out when you spot them.
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
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