What do you regret planting in your garden?

[MyRabbit79]

Inspired by the current thread about the plants and weeds people are currently battling, what are the plants you've purposely sown or planted in your garden and come to regret?

For me, it's aquilegia and forget-me-nots.

I bought some aquilegia for our front garden when we moved here and it pops up everywhere, looks messy and I don't love the flowers

Forget-me-not - I sowed these from seed two years ago out the front. They're now everywhere including in the pots, gravel and back garden. Planning to pull most of it up after it's flowered this year.

Parsley. I thought it might be nice to put some in my windowbox. The bastard self-seeded and now I get edible weeds coming up everywhere. There's only so much cod in the world...

AchilleaAchillea millefolium New Vintage Violet, lovely brightly coloured flowers which quickly turn very, very dull beigey. We have a teeny tiny garden so everything in it really needs to earn its place. I have also spend a lot of time over the years pulling up crocosmia corms 🙄

Hate ivy and bay. My neighbours have both. One creeps through our fence and the other they seem reluctant to prune!

Stopping the ivy going through the fence to the neighbours garden is one of the battles I have with it. I keep an eye on it and rip it back every time it gets close. It's my garden nemesis, I don't want to make it theirs too!

Bindweed. I thought it looked pretty on the packet. Never again.

phygelius, I bought 2 pots in the reduced section. Several years later they had taken over an entire bed, spread to the neighbours garden under the fence. We had to clear the entire bed and cover in weed suppressant meeting for 2 years to be sure it had gone ....

Oh and Virginia creeper - bloody nightmare. Thought we'd finally got rid of it 5 years ago, I've noticed the 'dead' stump has started to sprout again....

I didn't realise you could buy bindweed, thought it was universally unwanted！

Fucking bamboo. Kindly planted by previous owners along the entire border of our land. Never, ever, ever again.

The furthest we've found it from it's intended 'line' is 4m, it's everywhere

Comfrey

Jerusalem artichokes. Raspberries!

I have spent so much money and time failing to grow this.😆

Russian Vine. A neighbour two houses away planted it. It filled the entire garden of the neighbour between us (30 foot garden) before we moved in, and we have an endless battle stopping it coming over the fence. Unbelievable!

Muscari the devils work! Spreads everywhere.

Winter flowering jasmine. It completely took over one flower bed and it's impossible to get rid of

Lavatera. Planted one two gardens ago and it still haunts me. We spent hours chopping the blasted thing back every year.

Two camellias. Planted seven years ago and the bloody things have never flowered. They’re perfectly healthy plants and growing well but it annoys the life out of me that they won’t flower and I wish I’d planted something else there.

Ooh I love bluebells. Please send any you’ve dug up to me. I bought them in the green to plant on our kittens grave (bit morbid but the DC wanted to mark it) and all the buggers have died - the DC are going to notice this year so I’m going to have to get hold of more and plant them before they do!

I sprinkled one of those wildflower seed mixes. Looked awesome the first year. Now I’m just left with teasel, clover and buttercups. We have self seeded oregano and sage but I find that useful. But my real fight is against the nettle. I deserve it though, I planted bamboo at a previous house we lived in before I knew better.

The previous owners planted a flowering cherry tree. After 40 years, it looked gorgeous and was massive, arching right over the entire driveway.
I was much less thrilled with it when I found it had rooted into the main sewer and broken it. The whole length of the garden path had to be dug up and relaid and the sewer replaced, at a cost of over £3,000.
They also had an enormous pussy willow, which blocked out the view of the hills and cost £600 to have felled and stump treated. Don’t get me started on their invasive bamboo…

Vinca major. Romps through the shrub border getting everywhere and looking s straggly mess.

Acanthus. Bears breeches. Took them ages to get going but they have now rooted through to New Zealand. Nightmare!

Raspberry canes

Bamboo, what were we thinking of?
Also pampas grass 😂

Bloody pampas grass

Mint. Never ever plant mint in the ground. It’s a great present for an enemy tho!