We inherited perennial peas too @SalixGold which are now successfully (fingers crossed, touch wood) gone. Dug them out and then spent the next 18 months yanking out new shoots which regularly appeared - whenever I looked the other way! Luckily they were just by the back door so it became an easy habit to glance down when going in and out.
I having checked for a while and am away at the moment so have worrying visions that they have reappeared in my absence 😳😂
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”—Marcus Tullius Cicero East facing, top of a hill clay-loam, cultivated for centuries (7 years by me). Birmingham
Can I have 2. The periwinkle that has taken over the ground in the two places I planted it. I keep pulling up what I can and it keeps returning. It needs to be dug out properly but it's impossible given the tree roots etc it's intertwined with. Also my cherry tree. Planted 15 years ago for the blossom I thought it would only grow up to 15ft high. It was about double that. Attracted black flies, threw up suckers everywhere, sucked up all the moisture from the area around it, got so big it shaded half the garden and was covered in canker. It was cut down last year. What a difference its made.
It's not so much what I planted, but what I replanted. Spanish bluebells in the main bed near the house - we dug up the bulbs, and replanted them at the far end of the garden, beneath an elderberry tree. They have done well, and multiplied, which is what we wanted. However, we clearly didn't get all the bulbs out of the original location, and those that got missed, have had the space to expand, and we now have more than ever. Sigh!!🙄
Alchemilla mollis and astrantia. They both seed copiously everywhere and if left to their own devices, make thick woody stems which are really difficult to dig out.
Je ne regrette rien! Well maybe the Jasminum beesianum which I spent a few hours hoiking out recently, but it wasn't particularly hard to shift and the other one, in a pot, looks quite pretty at the moment. All the other bothersome plants were here before me.
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
@Jenny_Aster A tree planted in the wrong place can be a mistake to last a life time. Sadly it often happens. I planted various lesser celandines including Brazen Hussey and some doubles big mistake.
I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
I'm more into regretting plants my neighbours planted that have spread into my garden. Jasminium Beesianum, vinca, geranium wargrave pink. For myself, I regret planting an Albertine rose. I didn't realise it was a rambler and the flowers don't die pretty.
Our predecessors planted 2 mimosa trees which are truly horrid. We have tamed one which is hidden from view behind the old ruined farmhouse - lifted the crown and removed all the suckers and seedlings from below so at least teh shape is good now. The other is in a mix of other trees planted along the boundary between us and the farm behind - very visible all year which is OK once the nasty acid yellow flowers have gone and they do not die prettily. However, it suckers in under our polytunnel and veg beds and self seeds too.
The only thing I regret planting is a cercidiphyllum which, despite regular deep waterings in its first two summers has turned up its toes this winter. Sad.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
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@Jenny_Aster A tree planted in the wrong place can be a mistake to last a life time. Sadly it often happens. I planted various lesser celandines including Brazen Hussey and some doubles big mistake.
When I planted it last Spring I didn't take into account (call it age related) next doors extension which is about 2 or 3 feet away. Every time I look at it I feel guilty, can't be doing with that, it'll have to be uprooted.
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I having checked for a while and am away at the moment so have worrying visions that they have reappeared in my absence 😳😂
East facing, top of a hill clay-loam, cultivated for centuries (7 years by me). Birmingham
The periwinkle that has taken over the ground in the two places I planted it. I keep pulling up what I can and it keeps returning. It needs to be dug out properly but it's impossible given the tree roots etc it's intertwined with.
Also my cherry tree. Planted 15 years ago for the blossom I thought it would only grow up to 15ft high. It was about double that. Attracted black flies, threw up suckers everywhere, sucked up all the moisture from the area around it, got so big it shaded half the garden and was covered in canker. It was cut down last year. What a difference its made.
Spanish bluebells in the main bed near the house - we dug up the bulbs, and replanted them at the far end of the garden, beneath an elderberry tree.
They have done well, and multiplied, which is what we wanted. However, we clearly didn't get all the bulbs out of the original location, and those that got missed, have had the space to expand, and we now have more than ever.
Sigh!!🙄
Well maybe the Jasminum beesianum which I spent a few hours hoiking out recently, but it wasn't particularly hard to shift and the other one, in a pot, looks quite pretty at the moment. All the other bothersome plants were here before me.
I planted various lesser celandines including Brazen Hussey and some doubles big mistake.
For myself, I regret planting an Albertine rose. I didn't realise it was a rambler and the flowers don't die pretty.
The only thing I regret planting is a cercidiphyllum which, despite regular deep waterings in its first two summers has turned up its toes this winter. Sad.
Cambridgeshire/Norfolk border.