I have done a terrible thing

[CruCru]

I have planted mint (black peppermint) at the top of a stepped part of the garden. I haven't told DH - whenever I mention mint, he rants about how it gets everywhere and can never be got rid of. Seriously, you'd think it was Japanese knotweed.

I'd quite like it to spread, we have a horrible weed that is halfway between bindweed and giant Lily pads. I'm hoping the mint will fight with this horrible thing or am I deluded?

Ooooo noooo, not MINT

I had some in a pot with other herbs and it took over, and took me a while to get it all out ( v big pot, half barrel type thing). We have lemon be which I haven't noticed as being invasive!

On the other hand I am currently raging war on wild leek which is bloody everywhere. Even managed to appear in the back garden where it had never been before looks pretty but o my god it's s SEA out there...

weed is celandine, purple flowers and heart shaped leaves, low growing invasive, but quite pretty.

So why did I think celandine was yellow flowered?
Am I confusing it with something else, or is the IOW a micropocket for weird flora?

Celandine does have yellow flowers

The advantage of my lemon balm is that the roots broke up the hard clay soil and it smelled nice at a time when nothing else was growing in the garden anyway. After some time when I wanted to grow stuff I dug the lemon balm out, and it has proved a lot easier to get rid of than celandines.

you are right hag, it isn't celandine.

I was looking at it in Mum's garden this week, and I could have sworn she said celandine.

But I just googled and it is wild violet (at least it looks like it, and is same as the one I was looking at at Mums)
I said how pretty, Mum said don't touch it with a barge pole!

I love wild violets, they disappear in the summer and reappear in spring all over my garden.
Glad I'm not losing what few marbles I've managed to hang on to in my later years.

Ooh I want to move to the IoW.

The weed is butterbur (petasites), not celandine. Celandine has much smaller leaves (I like it, it's a wildflower to me).

The mint I've planted doesn't look like mint, it is much darker, low growing and has different leaves. Mint is quite an ugly plant I think.

I've also planted lemon balm, didn't realise that was off limits too. It's meant to be attractive to bees. There's no hope for me is there?

Ah, I appear to have now planted some basil mint. It can keep the other mint company.