Thugs..you know you’ve got them

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And now is the time to dig them up, but I always feel bad about killing any plants and I keep leaving it. At the moment I am thinking I should dig up acanthus mollis, bear breeches, as it keeps popping up in other parts of my bed. Deep rhizomes. Has anyone successfully kept this under control?

And any other thug stories... my garden is home to too many of them creeping across their boundaries!

@MereDintofPandiculation no, the firecracker is a lovely plant but is shooting up all over the place. Had issues with a cranesbill geranium in the back garden but have just foolishly planted two in the front shady north facing garden and will just let them thug away for now

They should have dealt with it years ago but the only thing in their garden is grass and ivy so they haven't. A neighbour had a rather nice bush/small tree Viburnum in their front garden, semi evergreen, bright red berries in autumn. And an Ash growing from underneath it and already reaching first floor level.

Given that their garden is about 6ft above the pavement and these two are about a foot away from the already leaning retaining wall, when they came to remove one of them, which do you think they kept? Yes, the Ash. Which is now at ridge tile height.

You need to move, @MereDintofPandiculation. You deserve less stupid neighbours.

@LakieLady they're not my adjacent neighbours, they're further down the road. We just amuse ourselves by assessing the lean of the wall everytime we go past. It gives us something to do in lockdown.

Poached egg plant. Never again. It stated with one plant 2 years ago and its now in at least three different spots including in the potatoes with massive clumps of it.

I have just spent the afternoon digging out vinca that comes thorough from next door. Then to made it worse I found some self seeded carex pendula which has also seeded from next door.
Every spring I have to dig out the vinca but I thought I had seen the last of the sedge after digging it out two years ago.
But on the plus side after getting rid of the vinca I did find my tree peony trying valiantly to try to try to caver out a bit of space for itself.

Welsh buggering poppies. The last owner wasn't able to tackle them, and I inherited hundreds and hundreds and hundreds. Everywhere.

I'm down to about my last 100 now, but some are so deep into the walls I'll never get them.

Otherwise, vinca and ferns.

@Pandoraslastchance I bought some poached Egg seeds 6years ago..they are fab, self seeding, with soooo many bees. I was debating transplanting some of it..but you have a point, it is a sortof a thug, just of the bright yellow beautiful type!

Top top thug for me is Acanthus. I could dig it out every weekend a little ruddy leaf would have popped up by the next. Drives me crazy. I wouldn't mind as much if it didn't look awful when left to it's own devices - the slugs love it, and then it get mildew. Nice ...

Smiled at lots of the other posts too. Woodruff, tick (including pls ting it deliberately - what was I thinking)! Crocosmia. Japanese anemone.

Not sure anyone has mentioned Violets. They would take over the garden if I let them.

I don't count euphorbia or foxgloves because I can never have enough of them. :)

African basil, I planted it in a bed of flowers thinking it would add some nice foliage and interest. It got huge and took over the whole thing.

Similar story with mint

There's a huge raspberry at the end of the garden, I keep cutting back the canes but it just goes wild and chokes out anything near it. We went on holiday one year and came back to a cane growing a metre and a half away from the plant, out of the grass.

Nepeta 6 hills giant is an absolute thug. Grows inches in a week. Prefer it's smaller cousins

Forgot about this one, I made the mistake of planting out a pot of this for the cat and it will not die. I spied some leaves popping up last week but that may be the mint budlea which is also failing to be exterminated.