Plant taking over the world!

Sorry- do you know if it is edible. Will look it up now. We still have about 50cm of snow- so nothing growing ;)

I have cooked and eaten it without problem. I have googled thoroughly and I am pretty sure it is called wild onion. I do not know anyone else who has it or anything similar.

Grass.
Very popular in our borders.

I want some Japanese knotweed, anyone got some, pm me if you have and I will buy it. I will plant it in gardens of people I cant stand and wait till they are overgrown and are struggling to cut it back. Joking!

FlicketyB - we have wild onion here too but it isn't too invasive - yet!
As you say it looks like chives, and smells oniony.

TriciaF Dig it out and throw in the dustbin before it spreads. Do not compost it. It started in one corner of my garden and now the lawn and vegetable patch have it. I am managing to keep it under control because I constantly dig it up with a clod of earth round it and bin it, but it is a constant chore.

When I sold my house I had to sign a form saying there was no Japanese Knot Weed in my garden. I was really surprised

It's illegal to plant Japanese knotweed, it spreds like wildfire through a root system and almost impossible to erradicate.
I understand that it is very difficult to get a mortgage if it is on a property. x

Spreads - x

At the local French/Swiss customs there is a big poster indicating which plants are illegal to import. Of course there is japanese knotweed and Himalyan balsam, but also buddleia and solidago I was surprised.

well, Im not getting rid of my buddleia for anyone. it is so beautiful in the summer and the bees love it.

And the butterflies! Our buddleia is covered with them sometimes in the summer.

Weeds!
Himalayan balsam is rampant round here in all the verges.
Non in my garden so far.

I have several buddleis in my garden, they grow so easily and no they are not weeds, our local garden centre sells them for £7 at plant.
If some consider them weeds ok, but I love mine, along with my giant leylandii and rampany ivy, I love a wild garden not a copy of the local park with neat lawns and a boring flower border.

Well I was surprised about the budleias. I had several huge ones in our UK garden, the normal mauve one, a very deep purple and a massive white one with huge flowers- as said, not only beautiful but great with the butterflies.

I've recently planted a buddleia with orange globes rather than the usual spikes. Well, that's what I bought! I hope to see it blooming for the first time this summer. Love the very dark purple one but the butterflies seem to prefer the lighter purple blooms.

I too have a 'ball' buddleia, it is very pretty but not much interest to bees or butterflies.
What is it with the garden centres nowadays calling them buddleijas, this is a silly way of trying to make a common garden plant more upmarket.
I love the way they grow on the roofs of old houses.

I had a big problem with a creeping violet two years ago. I had a shoulder problem at the time and and as any gardening was causing pain I could not deal with it.

It is pretty but spreads with such a tightly meshed surface root system you could not hand weed it out and when I did get out to tackle it needed a big garden fork to get it out. This was on my very light sandy soil.

I also resorted to Glyphosate to control that and other such pervasive plants.

For such a pretty low growing plant it is viscious, do be careful of it.

Ivy stems are not too hard to saw through with a good pruning saw, but you need to do it regularly.

Buddiea has a wonderful perfume just like honey, I love it!
I just yank out any unwanted seedlings. I love seeing it covered with butterflies and it'll sometimes flower on side shoots if you prune dead flowers out carefully.

It's lucky that I like hellebores because every year they spread along the fence on one side of my garden - both white and pink ones. My theory is that the birds sit on the fence and excrete the seeds to the soil below, otherwise why are they only in that part of the garden?

Ah Nellie- how can a pretty little violet be such an unwelcome guest???

Buddleia is a plant from the Himalayas and likes poor soil, that's why it takes root everywhere. I think for some people born after WW2 it is reminiscent of bomb sites.

Annodomini; i to love hellebores. They produce such interesting seedlings, you never know what colour combinations will appear. I have been nurturing seedings to give away to family and friends.
The only problem is that they do take a while to mature into flowering. x

Another invasive species is rhododendron. I wouldn't have believed it until I saw how it has spread in a forest in Berkshire - can't remember the name, we had a walk there when I last stayed with DD1.
And FlicketyB - I've checked the wild onion near our gate, and it has spread, with several new small plants.

J52. In my last garden, I planted a pale green hellebore which was 'murdered' when my neighbour had men in to reconstruct the fence. I mean to get another one because it's such a good contrast with the pink and white ones, though I think more delicate. It astonishes me when I see how much they cost at the garden centres when they spread freely in my garden.