One gardener's problem child is another gardener's darling, lol! The only thing I really regret planting so far is forget-me-nots, Myosotis sylvatica. For me, they never quite turned into that gorgeous spring carpet of blue that I had dreamed of. Instead, I got a horrifically weedy, rangy, reseeding eyesore of a mess that chokes out any desirable plant in its path. The seedlings just never seem to end and emerge in thick carpets as soon as I can weed them out. I now have to go through my entire garden multiple times each season specifically to weed out these pests and somehow a few manage to escape my watchful eye and grow to maturity. Right now, they are germinating by the millions!!! That is no exaggeration!! I have dealt with and almost eradicated other pests like garlic mustard and stars of Bethlehem (Ornithogalum) and they are actually pleasant to deal with in comparison. Verbena bonariensis reseeds like mad but is also much easier to remove than those dreaded forget-me-nots!!! A plant that I love but regret planting where I did are the giant globe alliums like 'Globemaster' and especially 'Ambassador'. In my soil, they have been doing extremely well and multiplying like rabbits. Which means that the clumps of huge, strapping leaves are now so large that they are smothering many other desirable plants that would be dead by the time the allium foliage dies back in June. 'Ambassador' is a most gorgeous, tall cultivar with the most exquisite deep purple globes, but it's foliage is the largest and most smothering of all. Because of this, I have been forced to remove a lot of them as they emerge this spring. Either that, or lose most of my desirable geraniums, penstemons and other perennials. Sigh.

Yes, she really planted 5 trees across the front of the house. Since the house is about 30 to 40 ft. across the front, and there are 4 spaces between the trees, I'm estimating 10 ft. between the trees and the same distance to the house. So although Toronado might have started this thread with tongue planted firmly in cheek, I have a front row seat to this slow moving train wreck. When she planted the "hedge" along the road, I stopped one evening when she was at the mailbox. I tried to impress upon her that the trees would soon be in the wires, and offered free advice. She politely listened, declined my offer of help, and about a month later the front of the house was 'landscaped'. Such a waste of money. I'll see if I can get the trees into a shot without photographing her home. I really don't want to post a pic of somebody's house w/o their permission.

They were growing in areas with plenty of sunlight. Some were in locations that had a bit of protection for a few hours during the hottest part of the day, but it was still bright enough to not even count as shade. Our soil is sandy, so they didn't get water logged. It could be just our yard. We have had some tough plants fail in our garden, even though they thrive in the surrounding neighborhood. Much of our yard had a concrete surface for decades, and we have noticed that some species (bougainvillea, salvia, passion vines) will thrive for a couple of years, then quickly decline and die. I call it the three year curse. Other species thrive without missing a beat, but the failure species seem to continue to fail after multiple attempts. The former owner hated plants, so who knows what he did to the soil before resorting to the concrete. It could be the Itts just fall into the fail group, although a number of other Australian shrubs show no ill effects.

Try it. You don't have much to lose! make sure that the roots are moist but not sopping. Carefully dig a trench around the root ball, such as it is, and try to get your spade horizontally under it and slice it free. Slide it onto a tarp and carry it to its new location. The problem with these is that the root ball isn't really a root ball so hard to keep it intact.