Cerastium is my worst one for spreading,I hate Hostas too,the people living here before us loved them,and they were everywhere,also spreading like mad is a very bright green stripey low growing grass,that was here too,but its a cheery colour all through the year so it can stay.....for a while! A bottle of bleach and some round up kills off Hostas if anyone else has a hate of them😦
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How can anyone hate Hostas? I love them. I also saw that someone hated roses - how could anyone hate roses, my favourites.
In fact I love quite a lot of the plants mentioned here. In my old garden in SW France it was probably too hot because a lot of plants mentioned, anemones, alchemilla mollis, lysimachia Firecracker, even Cerastium etc, never spread or seeded themselves.
I grew to hate vinca, but I didn't plant it, it just popped up and was a real nuisance. People say it's easy to get up and shallow rooted but mine wasn't.
The nuisance plant I sowed because it looked pretty in daughter's garden was Impatiens balfourii, which was like a mini Himalayan Balsam and its seeds popped all over the place.
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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.
I first met mint as a child in an abandoned/empty house. They had a patio then a small stretch of lawn. I say HAD! The mint had totally taken over the whole garden. We ran though it and came out smelling of Polos. It had lifted the patio stones and was running under the fences into the field beyond. I learned from that. I spotted a wee mint recenrly that had self-seeded into a border from a container grown one on the patio last year. Bewaaaarrre of mint! Pwaaa haaa haaa!!! 😁😉
I really like the idea of that. My paths are crazy paving probably there since the 30s. Cracks filled with VB , dandelions and primroses. Worth investigating @Fire
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A bottle of bleach and some round up kills off Hostas if anyone else has a hate of them😦
In fact I love quite a lot of the plants mentioned here. In my old garden in SW France it was probably too hot because a lot of plants mentioned, anemones, alchemilla mollis, lysimachia Firecracker, even Cerastium etc, never spread or seeded themselves.
I grew to hate vinca, but I didn't plant it, it just popped up and was a real nuisance. People say it's easy to get up and shallow rooted but mine wasn't.
The nuisance plant I sowed because it looked pretty in daughter's garden was Impatiens balfourii, which was like a mini Himalayan Balsam and its seeds popped all over the place.
As for not liking Hostas, there is no accounting for taste.
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