What's the plant you regret putting in?

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betony Great for wildlife it said, good for dry places....didn't mention it spreads like buggery and it a pain to dig out..not impossible but spreads under ground. Completely unsuited for my small front border....

There's also a rather lovely ceonothus that is rather too big for the spot by the greenhouse door and is making encroachments ....

Clematis - too confusing about when to prune - some flower only on old growth, others only on new so I have two enormous green creepers with zero flowers. No idea what variety they are.

MIL insisted we take comfrey to make homemade fertliser... it's now covering half of one bed. Should have put it in a pot. Also the Lily of the Valley has proved rather more intrusive than I was anticipating, for very little reward.

Years ago in my last garden, Russian Vine. 🌹

Crocosmia in the front garden and then
Mallow and those pendulous sedge things everywhere in the back garden borders. Despite the garden being mainly concrete with some borders in the middle when we moved in and us ripping it all out and replacing with turf and borders (with new soil) around the edge.

Oh no! This thread is making me nervous about the deadnettle and Japanese anemones I planted this year. Gulp.

Bugle or. Proper name Amiga - even grows in the lawn and survives mowing. I have the one wit bronzey leaves.

No,no Ajuga

I've just remembered this plant that I stupidly put in my last garden.

Houttuynia cordata - Chameleon plant.

It was given to me by a neighbour when I moved. I put it into the garden as I thought it was quite pretty with its green, cream, reddish colour leaves and a white flower. What a bloody idiot!

It was everywhere, I tried to get it out but it just kept springing up. I've seen it recommended in gardening articles and just think to myself ... Nooooooooo!! Be warned, it's terrible.

Bastard vinca; thanks MIL for suggesting that as it’s “good ground cover”!

bambo-also bastard stuff thanks to previous occupants

Also be careful of "patio trees".

I bought a cherry and put it in the border thinking it would only grow to about six ft. It was around 15ft. and had to be cut down as it was dripping sap all over my path and next door's path and the end of the branches were thick with blight. Also I couldn't reach the cherries.

I regret nothing that I have ever planted, I am the Edith Piaf of gardeners - however, I inherited some bloody invasive bamboo and hypericum from the previous owners, along with a sodding ground elder infestation, and equally bloody vinca repeatedly forcing its way under the fence from the neighbours.

Our previous owners (or more likely their predecessor as the POs did nothing with the 0.5 acre) also planted pendulous sedge and it comes up everywhere. Bloody awful stuff. Pendulous sedge is a relatively common British wildflower. Are you sure it was planted and didn’t simply arrive by seed?

Try Carex flacca, affectionately known by botanists as “floppy flacca”. Same overall look but only about a foot high and much less of a spreader.

Prune just after flowering. Works as a rule of thumb

I regret Kiftsgate rose, and Clematis montana. Both multi-tree jobs. Vitis coignetiae is another, but I can’t regret that, the pinky-red autumn colour is so glorious

@ClinkyWotsit
sympathy re forget me nots but v easily pulled up.
My worst addition is, as others pp, acanthus.
Spreads everywhere. Flops as soon as sun is forecast . Leaves decimated by slugs.

I have now resolved to adopt Babdoc’s Edith Piaf attitude of je ne regrette rien. From now on, no regret but maybe a rueful shrug (although that reminds me that I did regret planting rue, which was pretty but gave me an awful rash).

A blue flowering vetch-like plant that seeds itself everywhere, has very tenacious fibrous roots and came from a garden centre 5 years ago 🤬
Acanthus is another one and wild arum.

The woman who occasionally helps in my garden grew some nasturtiums from seeds so planted a few of those and they are on steroids! Totally engulfed everything else and are now marching across the lawn. Huge leaves too.

Us, grape vines, we never really got decent yields. Now they're takin over the garden and no grapes even though they're pruned. Previous owner jasmine, it runs rampant in the summer, it smells nice in the warm weather but it seems to have a world domination mentality. It needs cutting back every few days.

@LadyGardenersQuestionTime @minipie Totally feel your pain with the japanese anemone and they are exactly as per minipie's description. I'm still finding random bits popping up everywhere and it was a nightmare to dig out.

Red campion and herb Robert. Why didn't I realise sowing wildflower seeds might not be wise?

Oh rose campion is another one I pulled out. Love it but it just smothered everything. In a large garden with deep beds it would be great but not in my tiny town garden sadly.

I was just going to post something similar, mine grows in shade so doesn’t get the red tinge. I keep the info about it on my phone, if any one questions it, as it looks like mini JKW!
some of the up thread thugs behave nicely in my garden.

There's not much I pull out (our garden is fairly new to us as we only moved in last year) but rose campion goes crazy in one of the beds and I've completely ripped it out of another. Also, Pearly Everlasting is a good workhorse for poor soil but an absolute bugger for spreading everywhere! So that gets yanked out at regular intervals!!!