I didn't plant them myself, by I inherited asters with the house, along the front path. I have hacked them out when less than an inch tall and they have never flowered but TEN YEARS of hacking later and they still emerge through the paving. They have incredible staying power - they have had no light exposure at all - no green inch above the earth. Hoeing out plants doesn't always weaken a plant, or at least not within one century. The paving is cemented in, else I would take it up and try and get at the roots once and for all.
I was foolish putting mint in the ground, but I'd managed to kill it multiple times in pots and other spots in the garden so presumed it would just die again, it's finally become the menace I was promised.Â
That it was a little plant with pretty blue flowers. @LG_ That's how they get you. Vinca has pretty blue flowers too
I already had Vinca, but it's not been too much of a problem. I rip it back to where I want it occasionally but it's OK. But I didn't have the violets AT ALL. They looked pretty in my childhood garden so I imported a few... they still look pretty but seed EVERYWHERE and where they really take hold form a fairly impenetrable mat, which is the thing I can't forgive them for.Â
'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
Like a fool l brought a snowberry that was already planted in my previous garden, to this one. Fortunately there's a clay pan about 15 inches down which helps me keep it under control in a corner.
 I read somewhere that birds will only eat white berries when there are no other colours left, but even in the bitterest, freezing Winter it remains untouched. Every Spring l hack it back and curse it.
Agree about Lysmachia Firecracker, l've just about managed to get rid of it. If anyone suggests that l may have potted sections up and donated them, it was for charity, okay ?  .
I think @Devonian mentioned Eupatorium Chocolate as a spreader, but here it stays in neat clumps. Hope l'm not tempting fate by saying that.
Same old culprits here, Vinca major being the worst. I had to basically dig up a whole border last year and start from scratch where it had infiltrated its way into every other plant, so decided to finally tackle it once and for all. Amazingly I seem to have got rid of it from there completely so far. Still got it under a hedge in another part of the garden but I can live with I there, Mint is another, and the one I inherited rather than planted, a pulmonaria which just seems indestructible and smothers everything in sight if its not constantly removed
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I was foolish putting mint in the ground, but I'd managed to kill it multiple times in pots and other spots in the garden so presumed it would just die again, it's finally become the menace I was promised.Â
Michelmas daisies have bluish flowers tooÂ
 I read somewhere that birds will only eat white berries when there are no other colours left, but even in the bitterest, freezing Winter it remains untouched. Every Spring l hack it back and curse it.
Agree about Lysmachia Firecracker, l've just about managed to get rid of it. If anyone suggests that l may have potted sections up and donated them, it was for charity, okay ? Â
I think @Devonian mentioned Eupatorium Chocolate as a spreader, but here it stays in neat clumps. Hope l'm not tempting fate by saying that.
Mint is another, and the one I inherited rather than planted, a pulmonaria which just seems indestructible and smothers everything in sight if its not constantly removed