Nuisance plants for me are the b****y weeds that come from thoughtless neighbours' gardens.
If I plant something myself and it becomes a pest, it gets chucked. If something's already there and I don't care for it - pest or not - it gets chucked. That way - I don't really have nuisance plants.
It's a hard school with me!
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Brave of you to post a photo Keen. I think most of us are rather shy. The potty gardener and I have actually met. Some of us live a long way apart.
I have a huge single flowered rudbeckia, I think it's Herbstonne, which is a thug. My daughter once gave some Impatiens Balfouri as I thought it was pretty. It seeds itself everywhere and is related to Himalayan Balsam, not so thuggy as that though, and smaller.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Hi Salino - Busy-Lizzie ( and all). Just a comment abouit that hat. Firstly I thought that you was so astounded at my good looks you could only think to comment on the hat. I am a modest person but well aware of my very personable appearence ( hesitate to say good looks).. I used to have quite a number of folk walk around my first garden and it was quite on the cards to be told on departure -" great to see your lovely garden and also the lovely gardener". - you get used to it. Modesty forbids me from saying more lest you get the impression I am a tad conceited. Now ref that badge - that is the badge of "The Royal Corps of Signals" which I served in years ago -very proud to have done so . Wear it on my "sunhat" for that reason and also its does attract other ex Sigs types to come and have a chat whilst out and about..
Hi all. back to shockers. I mentioned yesterday a plant I have always liked - its a British native I think and its a Euphorbia. Name is Euphorbia lathyris and grows thus - a single stem up to 2 -3 feet - leaves at 90 degs equally spaced up to the top and in due course theres a topknot of greenish yellow flowers. If allowexd to these set large seeds in sectioned pods which in time and in the hot sun explode noisily and send the pea sized seed in all directions - possibly up to 20 feet away. A lovely stately accent plant I think but its seeding habits are the shocking part - they get everywhere although easily recognised and plucked out. It is also called the Caper Spurge but of course has absolutely no connection with Capers at all - believe all Spurges are poisonous and have that very caustic milky sap which is nasty if it gets on you at all. First garden I had Wulfenii, characias and the smaller mirsinites but got rid of them for this reason. Others comments ref these plants pse.
Hi all. Heres another and hopefully this plant may ring bells with someone out there. I cannot for the life of me remember its botanical name but when I bought it from a cottage garden they called it "Flowering Lettuce" which it looked very much like (Cos) except that the foliage was a nice blueish colour. I am going back to the 60's-70's here and had looked it up in books where it stated there was two versions, one a goody and t'other very much a baddy. You have guessed it - I got hold of the baddy. I planted it at the end of a 20ft long mixed border in one spring and all looked well all that year and even to the next summer but then I noticed small bljue shoots coming up everywhere full length of that border.. In due course ( end of season) I had to remove every single plant - comb out and wash all the roots of the lot to get rid of it which fortunately I did. As I sai I cannot remember the full name but I think the second was ---- bourgattii or similar. Any ideas?.
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Nuisance plants for me are the b****y weeds that come from thoughtless neighbours' gardens.
If I plant something myself and it becomes a pest, it gets chucked. If something's already there and I don't care for it - pest or not - it gets chucked. That way - I don't really have nuisance plants.
It's a hard school with me!
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Does it have to be just plants or weeds. I can think if lots of things I would like rid of.
Vinca minor, lilly of the valley, bamboo, some kind of pale pink phlox which is spreading everywhere!
Another one, Dierama pulcherrima. Forgot to dead head 2 years ago and not we have hundreds coming up, despite weeding them out last year.
Don't get me started on plants that spread by other means!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh Tina you've made me chuckle again
The dogs who bark near you must be somewhere on your list
Another seed weed, Roscoea scilloides, the black flowered form. Wish the pink form of this was as prolific.
Brave of you to post a photo Keen. I think most of us are rather shy. The potty gardener and I have actually met. Some of us live a long way apart.
I have a huge single flowered rudbeckia, I think it's Herbstonne, which is a thug. My daughter once gave some Impatiens Balfouri as I thought it was pretty. It seeds itself everywhere and is related to Himalayan Balsam, not so thuggy as that though, and smaller.
Hi Salino - Busy-Lizzie ( and all). Just a comment abouit that hat. Firstly I thought that you was so astounded at my good looks you could only think to comment on the hat. I am a modest person but well aware of my very personable appearence ( hesitate to say good looks).. I used to have quite a number of folk walk around my first garden and it was quite on the cards to be told on departure -" great to see your lovely garden and also the lovely gardener". - you get used to it. Modesty forbids me from saying more lest you get the impression I am a tad conceited. Now ref that badge - that is the badge of "The Royal Corps of Signals" which I served in years ago -very proud to have done so . Wear it on my "sunhat" for that reason and also its does attract other ex Sigs types to come and have a chat whilst out and about..
Hi all. back to shockers. I mentioned yesterday a plant I have always liked - its a British native I think and its a Euphorbia. Name is Euphorbia lathyris and grows thus - a single stem up to 2 -3 feet - leaves at 90 degs equally spaced up to the top and in due course theres a topknot of greenish yellow flowers. If allowexd to these set large seeds in sectioned pods which in time and in the hot sun explode noisily and send the pea sized seed in all directions - possibly up to 20 feet away. A lovely stately accent plant I think but its seeding habits are the shocking part - they get everywhere although easily recognised and plucked out. It is also called the Caper Spurge but of course has absolutely no connection with Capers at all - believe all Spurges are poisonous and have that very caustic milky sap which is nasty if it gets on you at all. First garden I had Wulfenii, characias and the smaller mirsinites but got rid of them for this reason. Others comments ref these plants pse.
Hi all. Heres another and hopefully this plant may ring bells with someone out there. I cannot for the life of me remember its botanical name but when I bought it from a cottage garden they called it "Flowering Lettuce" which it looked very much like (Cos) except that the foliage was a nice blueish colour. I am going back to the 60's-70's here and had looked it up in books where it stated there was two versions, one a goody and t'other very much a baddy. You have guessed it - I got hold of the baddy. I planted it at the end of a 20ft long mixed border in one spring and all looked well all that year and even to the next summer but then I noticed small bljue shoots coming up everywhere full length of that border.. In due course ( end of season) I had to remove every single plant - comb out and wash all the roots of the lot to get rid of it which fortunately I did. As I sai I cannot remember the full name but I think the second was ---- bourgattii or similar. Any ideas?.