too true about being careful with invasive plants ,I am still 20 years on trying to eradicate a ground cover plant my mother gave me saying it was pretty ,pretty invasive although the yellow nettle like flowers are sweet.
I've remembered the name of that fuchsia-like perennial. Phygelius. Never again!! It was quite tall for a phygelius, about 4', so I think it must have been phygelius x rectus. Apparently it has a 5' spread but it looked to me as if it would go on spreading indefinitely and getting more and more messy and invasive.
I realised last year - their first year in the garden, that monarda & achillea were trying to elbow all of their neighbours out of the way. They look as if they can fairly easily be controlled though. ( I hope !!)
I planted a bamboo several years ago, thought it would look quite nice, kind of oriental and cover the neighbours high fence. It did for a while, but I realised it was invasive when it began to sprout through a slate bed several feet from the original plant. About the same time I noticed it had migrated to the said neighbours garden .
Absolute nightmare to get rid of and it still tries to grow back through the wall from neighbours plant. The said neighbour hasn't realised it grew from my garden , I over heard him last summer telling a visitor how much he liked it but said it had just sprung up one year and he didn't know from where, the fence is a high one
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too true about being careful with invasive plants ,I am still 20 years on trying to eradicate a ground cover plant my mother gave me saying it was pretty ,pretty invasive although the yellow nettle like flowers are sweet.
I've remembered the name of that fuchsia-like perennial. Phygelius. Never again!! It was quite tall for a phygelius, about 4', so I think it must have been phygelius x rectus. Apparently it has a 5' spread but it looked to me as if it would go on spreading indefinitely and getting more and more messy and invasive.
I realised last year - their first year in the garden, that monarda & achillea were trying to elbow all of their neighbours out of the way. They look as if they can fairly easily be controlled though. ( I hope !!
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I planted a bamboo several years ago, thought it would look quite nice, kind of oriental and cover the neighbours high fence. It did for a while, but I realised it was invasive when it began to sprout through a slate bed several feet from the original plant. About the same time I noticed it had migrated to the said neighbours garden
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Absolute nightmare to get rid of and it still tries to grow back through the wall from neighbours plant. The said neighbour hasn't realised it grew from my garden
, I over heard him last summer telling a visitor how much he liked it but said it had just sprung up one year and he didn't know from where
, the fence is a high one
Verdun. We aren't on speaking terms due to a dispute over the fence
they say, whats goes around comes around 
A lot plants mentioned I have , ohhh well so far garden can take them .
Chinese lanterns!