Wild grapevine. The battle continues.........but I think I'm winning.........I hope.

Oh oh...I planted some verbascum this year. It is pretty......note to self...keep up with deadheading!

Sierra

Most of my reseeders are happy finds..but I didn't like the borage in everyhting nor the little cutter bees that loved it ..I also have a small euphorbia that reseeds and suckers everywhere in one flowerbed,thank goodness I didnt plant it in any other beds..and every year I have to hack out perennial geraniums that pop up where they shouldnt.. savona

Years ago when we first moved to the acreage a neighbor gave me some perennials from her garden. Now, I wish I wouldn't have accepted the rose she gave me. First of all it has never flowered in the 11 years we have been here. Second, there was grass in it. Now, I have major roundup to do 'cause the grass has spread. Third, the rose was an extremely bad one for suckering. I am still digging out pieces 11 years later. I think that roundup on the shoots may work better than digging. Must be a wild rose of some sort, full of thorns, wow!

Yarrow is the other perennial she gave me. I am still trying to get rid of it too.

Brenda

Amaranthus 'Love-Lies-Bleeding' wins for me. It was gorgeous last year. This year I am still pulling the new sprouts & I'm pretty darn certain that alot of the seed reverted. Quite a few of the ones I left to grow turned out to be nasty things with green heads & a nettle-like stings.

I would have to say Centaurea Montana. I bought one plant several years ago and haven't quite pulling out the seedlings since. I still have the original plant and have given away probably 30 or so and have ripped out hundreds of plants. I love the blue colour so it stays in my bed for now.
I also have an orange daylily that I can't get rid of. It is in my rose bed and got the shovel this summer, but it was very agressive and it suckered all over the place. I have it entwined in some of my rose roots and these I just keep pulling out. But they keep coming back.
Shelley

Vetivert8 from the New Zealand forum - if you read this please don't say "I told you so" LOL I think I have finally had it up to the ying yang with pansies. Yes, pretty little pansies. DH loves them, but even he said this year that our gardens are looking overloaded with them - they have selfseeded everywhere. And I mean everywhere - even 40 or 50 feet away. And Lois Hole was right. Most self seeded pansies revert to yellow or dark purple. I have some that have come back like the mother plant or some other combination of something or other, but for the most part they have reverted. I am going to be ripping them out for years, I know it.

Shauna

Borage for me too. I love the colour and shape of the blooms but hate how it took over one entire flowerbed --they never grew that big last year! Also had some reseed in other flowerbeds too but they haven't gotten as big for some reason. A couple of days ago I decided that I would not grow these again!

I guess I am glad that I ripped out my volunteer verbascum. It had totally flopped over from the wind/rain one time and instead of staking it I decided to rip it out. I was thinking "What did I do???" LOL but maybe I don't regret that after all!

I do have Love-in-a-Mist and Bachelor Button's all over the place this year but I liked where they landed so they got to stay! Also the Johnny-Jump-Ups end up everywhere but at least they are easy enough to pull up when I want to plant something else in its place. Hmmmm.... I predict I'll be doing the same with pansies next year! LOL Now WHY did I let them all self-seed??? LOL

LOL on the pansies and Johnny-Jump-Ups....I think next year I will be doing a LOT of weeding these things out! Poppies too! This year was OK for them because my garden is really in its first full summer, so I have lots of bare spots...but next year look out! I have poppies and JJU's in places where they were never planted! I have been more vigilant in removing the seed heads of the poppies this year but its just way too much work to deadhead the JJU's so I'll be pulling out seedlings by the thousands next spring I guess.

I saved all the poppy seed heads and have gazillions of seeds, but I have a plan! I found a website about a group in Toronto called Guerilla Gardeners...they take empty lots around the city and plant flowers in them to make them look nicer. Well just up the road from me is a large ugly gravel patch that is not used for anything in the summer but is a winter testing ground for Ford over the winter. I think in the spring, I might just sprinkle some of my poppy seeds along the edge of the field. They never mow there and it would be nice to look at some colorful flowers instead of ugly gravel and tufts of hay! I got this idea a couple of weeks ago when I was on my way to work and noticed a couple of poppies among the dandelions and other weeds. I don't think this would be a bad idea...do any of you?

What a good idea, Michele! I was actually thinking of taking some of my verbascum seed heads and shaking them out up the road to see what they would do.

You could probably taking this Guerilla Gardening thing another way - i was just picturing myself sneaking into someone's garden, someone i don't care for :), and shaking the seed heads out there! LOL

Ohhh Marcia...thats just mean....I love it...LOL

Marcia, that's so funny.

In a word, DILL ! Have a small vegetable garden and made the mistake of planting a few dill seeds last year; this year I'm pulling up dill everywhere.

Margaret

At least with dill as you pull it out, you can put it to use in cooking.

I agree with yarrow/achilea. I had the 'summer pastels'. The first thing I noticed how impressively they grew the first year from seed and how nice the blooms were. Then I noticed how 'floppy' the plants would get, falling over onto the sidewalk. Then I noticed how they were starting to take over the spot they were growing in. The next year I noticed how the seedlings were coming up, even in the lawn. I still have some growing in the lawn. It never blooms as the lawnmower cuts it.

Of course I think at one time or another we've all been 'swindled' by those garden catalogues marvelous descriptions and pictures of plants. I can't think of an exact example of a plant at present, but I now realize that some of the pictures of the blooms are extreme close ups and that the blooms are actually tiny and few and far between. Plus, some plants bloom for one week and that's it.

Glen

I regret planting Centaurea montana, too. And there was some Catmint from hell that I actually paid for the seeds which would eventually invade the garden. Some days I regret planting Lamium and Rock Soapwort. One of these days I'm gonna regret planting Verbascum by the sounds of it, and Dianthus cause I just know it.

Now I am still quite enamored with Spartina pectinata (an ornamental grass). It has big arching leaves and seed heads that this year hit over 6', and any big grass that proves hardy in my yard is bound to be a keeper. I started it from seed 2 years ago, I think. But judging by how the roots travelled this year, I think it's going to eventually give me grief.

Climbing nightshade- It was sold to me as 'American Bittersweet' and it looked not too bad when they sold it too me last year. It grew and climbed up an arbor that I made very well and looked great. The stems did not winter and it died back to ground level last spring. I was happy when it started to grow and was training it up the arbor, until I found it starting to come up everywhere, in other flower beds, between sidewalk blocks and in the lawn. I am going to dig it this fall and chuck it,( hopefully it is not like gout weed) if I can, and replace it with a clematis. Hmmmmm- a nice red one would look nice there!!!!!

Cheers Al

Gout Weed has been my worst nightmare. Had planted some the whole length at the end of my house years ago. It kinda made a nice hedge almost, until it started growing into the lawn. It took me a whole summer to dig down about a foot to try and get all the roots that seem to be trying to reach the opposite side of the earth. JJU's and bachelor buttons and poppies reseed freely, but are easy to pull up if you have too many.

Errrr how bad is Variegated Goutweed to get rid of? My new house seems to have rather a lot of it. It also features a lot of Solomon's Seal. :I don't actually regret planting anything, but nicotianas and morning glories show up persistently for years afterwards. The nics are so hard to get tough on because they grow under my bedroom window and they brainwash me in my sleep with their nice smell. LOL

The one thing I will never plant again is a fruit tree on a rootstock. There are plum tree suckers 30 feet from where the tree used to be, and they haven't quit after I cut it down last year either.

I really regret planting Hops, as you can see in the photo, it has completely taken over the beautiful white wrought iron trellis that I canÂt even walk thru now, as well; poor John Davis on the right is being intimidated and nothing to cling on to. It will be dug up and moved over by one of the acreage fences, whatever roots remain will be tackled with RoundUp.

Sharon

Sorry to tell you Gil but variegated goutweed is hard to get rid of. It would make me not want to buy a house it can be so hard. The green variety is worse but they are both pains.

For me I'm starting to regret planting mint in my new flowerbed. It has stayed pretty good in one bed so I thought I'd plant it in another one that has lots of horse manure. Boy has it now gone to town. :(

Syreeta

As darling as these little guys are when they're blooming, they are driving me around the bend! I'm not even sure what they're called... viola *&$*#^#@ or something like that. It seems they bloom for about 5 minutes in the spring and spend the rest of the summer/fall merrily tossing out seeds in a bid to take over the planet. I tried lopping off the seedheads as they appeared, pulling the plants out by the roots, stripping the leaves as they regrew... they are obviously more determined than I am. LOL I just hope they don't follow me to the new place. ;)

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Wow, a lot of regrets here! LOL

For sure, dill is another one. I planted some about 10 years ago and have been totally inundated ever since. Most of my yarrow has not been so bad, but is slowly spreading. I'm going to dig out a couple of clumps to give away and maybe move some to a bed where it can do whatever it wants (that bed isn't built yet, so that remains to be seen).

Marcia - 10 YEARS? oh no!
Going to be pulling up every little dill I can find.
Margaret

Margaret, It's too late. You will have it for life!
There was dill here when we moved in eons ago, and I weed it out every year and never let it go to seed. Still it comes up. To add insult to injury, I can never actually use it because it is always infested with aphids.
I'm starting to get tired of the sea of forget-me-nots I originally planted. Also, I only planted zebrina malva one year and it also comes up all over the place.
Pudge, my lamium has seeded itself around this year, but I still love it. Marie

Margaret, plants LOTS of pickling cukes from now on! LOL

North53, i just found aphids on some of my dill. That's never happened before and i was really surprised. In fact, i was thinking of starting a thread about it entitled "Pickled aphids, anyone?" LOL

Yes, for sure, malva is another thing that just keeps coming back. For some reason this year (maybe i was more aggressive pulling it and deadheading last year) there are only three plants coming up, and in three different places. Weird. I don't doubt that it will be back, though. :)

Dill's not that bad.i eradicated all of mine in about two years. Of course, I also spaded the garden two or three times during that perious between prepping for new veggie plantings and then finally turning the veggie garden into a perennial bed, but even without mulch, I haven't had a dill sprout this year.

Violets are my nemesis. I moved some into a full shade garden and am in year 3 of removing them. I'm starting to win, but they're tenacious. They also have taken over a section of adjacent lawn.

I planted a Snowberry last year that I just ripped out and replaced with a Dwarf Balsam Fir today. The Snowberry was covered in aphids last year, had some serious dieback from winter, and was coated in powdery mildew this year. And it's not all that attractive to boot. The Dwarf Balsam Fir is much nicer and cuter.