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.

I love the flowers but they're so tiny compared with the mass of ever-spreading leaves

I grew some variety of big daisies last year from seed and bloody hell, they have taken root so damn hard in the pots that I can’t get them out. To top it off they were covered in ants all summer so they didn’t even look nice!

Agree with the grape hyacinths but they are wonderfully pretty. Also Love in a mist... in our new garden I thought it was gorgeous the first year and the old owner told us to pull it up after flowering... We left some because the seed pods are so pretty... big mistake! Also goldenrod which is glorious but so so invasive!

My insane gardener planted a eucalyptus and a paulonia in my tiny front garden and they have to be constantly coppiced to not turn into massive 12 metre trees. I have no idea what he was thinking. I asked for country garden.

A rambling rose. It's savage. It does have very pretty rustic flowers for about 4 weeks a year but the rest of the year it's a total menace and is trying to overtake the back garden.

A Wisteria, not planted by me andnot sure what variety it is but it grows like an absolute demon and I can't contain it despite attempted pruning and just hacking it back.

The wild garlic is trying to take over too.

Yup, I did this about 5 years ago and very much regret it.

Shasta daisys, or a form of. Got some seeds from plants growing wild nearby, thought they would grow in the same way, nice flowers not too much foliage and a gentle spread through the border. Nope. Seeds have gone everywhere and taken over the border and are trying to do the same with the grass.

Verbena - saw them at a national trust property garden and a volunteer nearby warned me not to plant them at home when I mentioned it to my husband. How right she was - I dug them up a few years ago but every spring we still get them sprouting everywhere.

I have muscari on half a bed, looks like before long I’ll have a full bed!

Echoing Euphorbia. Bastard ate a nicer less vigorous variegated one I had beside it.

I have inherited gaura ( I think). They come up everywhere.

Thank you for warning me off forget me not. I was thinking how pretty they are this morning.

I'm wondering if I will regret sowing Briza Maxima. It hasn't come up yet on this thread!

I like my forget-me-nots, I get a good amount of flowers on them - some pink. Just have to do a lot of pulling up when they go over. Similar with the honesty, in that case pull out seedlings that aren't in suitable places.

I've regretted Labrador violets and the low rampant campanula which infested my rockery ... we've just dug everything out and heavily bark chipped and are hoping to regain control as it's a small area.

Definitely regret the red campion and herb Robert, such charming plants in a woodland, such invasive thugs in a flowerbed.

We have dug out the poxy bluebells that were here when we moved in, several times, because I wanted to replace them with English bluebells which are much nicer and more delicate to look at. We still have poxy bluebells all over the place. And poxy daffodils that never bloom. They will not give up.

Mint. The panted it in a small border and I can't get rid of it for love or money

Achemelia mollis from previous occupants. Been in this house 10 years, dug it all out finally 5 years ago (roots are soo tight & hard to get through) & it's still popping up everywhere. It is pretty though!

Fucking periwinkle 🙄😂

Ivy. Grrrrr....

I didn't plant mine, but it's bloody everywhere

Wild strawberries - they get everywhere!

I inherited a beech hedge.

Hate it.

It's brown for longer than it's green, it's see through when it's brown and my garden, drive and garage are permanently covered in leaves.

We didn't plant it, but we had bamboo that was very difficult and time-consuming to eradicate

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Erigeron, mint, forget-me-nots, bluebells etc etc just will not thrive in my garden. I’ve tried for several years before I gave up. Big leave Ivy, now that’s a different story! I was told it would help screen the garden and several years later and I’m still hacking it away at the first sight of a leaf.

Cosmos. Didn't realise they grew so tall and gangly and took over the whole bed. Flowered - eventually - but choked everything else. Also forget-me-nots and bluebells... have tried to dig those buggers out for 20 years but they keep coming back!

I have inherited rampant euphorbia, wild garlic and grape hyacinths in this garden, but didn't plant them myself.

Previously, my biggest regret was physalis - the orange lanterns were pretty but the leaves are nothing special and it sent runners everywhere.

Sodding fennel

Valerian. I had one small plant in a pot. I now have Valerian in random places in the gravel covered, weed suppressed borders where I keep potted plants and popping up in every pot I have. I also have a huge plant between the aforementioned borders which I now just cut back every year. Ladybirds like the aphids that it attracts so I buy ladybird larvae every year so I can watch them grow.

Apart from invaders like Spanish Bluebells I tend to keep plants that pop up as they are usually pretty, and have some lovely pink Hellebores that seeded from the neighbours garden, unfortunately they seeded in the lawn rather than the borders.

Marjoram. My goodness it is invasive - it spreads underground and seeds itself everywhere as well. We have dry sandy soil and it seems to love it here, the dratted stuff.

We'll have to start eating more of it.