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PITA you planted yourself😡

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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Valerian seeds about here all colours. Not really a problem I pull out the ones I don't want and try to remove dead flowers before they seed.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Phygellius. A nightmare thug. I've got rid of most of it now and am extremely familiar with the shoots.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    B3 said:
    Valerian seeds about here all colours. Not really a problem I pull out the ones I don't want and try to remove dead flowers before they seed.

    I think that's Centranthus ruber - a very different ball of fish.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Oh. You're dead right @Fire. I have no experience of your one. A completely different kettle of worms!
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I never planted the periwinkle but it is, indeed a pain in the rear. @nutcutlet
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    B, don't consider valerian off. 
    Or periwinkle. I inherited that and have spent ten years trying to get rid and am losing. It layers in a heartbeat and grows up through planters.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Like  a previous poster, new garden, lots of space to fill by beg steal and borrow, (not steal really)  so mine would be Cerastium tomentosum,  takes liberties, travels for miles. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • TopbirdTopbird Posts: 8,355
    edited April 2022
    Another one lamenting planting a vinca. A really deep blue / purple, it looked so pretty in Margery Fish's garden. I was warned it needed space to 'do its own thing' but I had that space - so why not? Pulled metres and metres of the bl$$dy stuff out last 2 years. It is still a very pretty colour though...

    Other major mistake was to think a bit of herb robert would be good for ground cover - doh!. Scattered a few seeds about 4 years ago, then spent most of lockdown 2020 on my knees hand weeding literally thousands of tiny seedlings. They're tiny seedlings but I filled the council wheely bins twice over with the damned things!
    Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    Stachys (Lambs ears) total pain in the proverbial.  It's even growing in the lawn now!

    Famous last words, but I have Japanese Anemone which is behaving itself.
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