I have about a million new aquilegia plants in my garden

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Last summer while DS2 was hinderinghelping me in the garden, I suggested he took the seed heads off my one aquilegia plant and scattered them on any bare bits of soil he could find. Every single one of them must have come up.
To be fair they are reasonably pretty and we have a few variations of colour, but it is just one more thing battling to take over (along with the bronze fennel, the lupins, the mint and the alchemilla).
Are other people's gardens a bit better behaved?

nope, i have them everywhere, in cracks in the path, growing out from under flag stones, in the herb beds

blooming things are like weeds, so how come they cost £5+ in the shop to buy i'll never know

what colours have you grown, Moomin?

This happened to me last year - I had thousands of the things - but as I never thinned them out, almost none of them flowered so there are only a few this year.

Going by my usual gardening style, I'll forget to dead head them this year, they will go to seed, and I'll have lots of them again next year! hums The Circle of Life from the Lion King

Bronze fennel - I have exactly the same problem - one small plant is now about 4 huge ones! Mine are infested by whitefly - I've tried soap and water - am I going to have to buy a commercial spray for them?

Well the one we started off with was sort of mid purple so we've got lots of varying lighter shades of that really and a few have come up pink with red stems. I was a bit concerned when the the flowers were in bud because they mostly looked grey if anything. Who would want a load of grey flowers?

yep all over the place here too and only two colour variations a pale pinky cream and a white and blue both of which are clashing lovely with the shirley poppies (orange and yellow) which have also seeded themselves everywhere. good job i like the cottage scruffy garden look

Yup, mine are taking over. In rather uninspiring shades of mauve and purple. Am (stupidly) contemplating buying one from the garden centre in a more exciting colour to encourage some more exciting cross-pollination l

I also have geraniums, dead nettle & euphorbia. I have to clear patches with a sythe to get any new plants in...

I must say all my bronze fennel monsters are ridiculously healthy. I am sure the birds will sort out your whitefly soon enough. Fennel seed are rather tasty aren't they, if you can get there before the birds.

There was a garden at Chelsea a couple of years ago with a few 2 foot high wispy bronze fennel fronds drifting artlessly through the delicate planting.
How I laughed.

i've got mainly pink, blue and mongrel hybrid pinky white in the front garden, but a lovely deep purple plant in the back garden

i tell DH to leave them, but they are a bit of a nuisance now

Nigella has taken over my front garden. I must remember to dead-head this year, and the opium poppies too.

I just bought a bronze fennel. I'm going to give it a stern talking to.

Someone gave me their Country Living magazine this month and there's a photograph of someone's garden (or the woodland area of their garden, this garden being bloody massive) and there are just hundreds of aquilegias. I have to say I love it and I would welcome lots of them..... if they turned out looking like the photo. I'm sure in reality mine wouldn't.