Why on earth would anyone plant.....

I remember my mother planting Japanese knotweed……early sixties. Luckily it didn’t like damp/wet mid Wales!

Rampant honeysuckle. It didn’t flower so I cut it right back to get rid of it. Instead it has grown all over my rockery and is actually flowering. It has put roots down everywhere and is growing up through plants. Today I have been cutting it as low as I can inside a large Hebe and ripping it out. I have a sore spot on my finger now - awwww! The revenge of the Honeysuckle.

Vinca and green alkanet. They have got to go. G Alkanet is coming up eveeywhere.

Nothing worse than the wild variety of monbretia
Interestingly for those who hate pampas’s grass. We interested more clumps than I have couteted Having hacked it right back and it is done regularly it surprising how many people have said positive things.

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What an interesting topic. I wish my Japanese Anemones would live a little and become rather more adventurous & promiscuous!
I had 3 but now I have just the one! Its still lovely though & the white petals are the purest of whites, beautiful. One day it might spread it's wings a little or I could move it to a shadier spot, if I dare!

Beware what you wish for. We bought a house with an untended garden last year where Japanese anemone ran riot.

It got between a cement plinth running along the side of our property and the house wall. It split the plinth away and rain got in between plinth and house walls causing damp problems inside and that has left us with an expensive repair job, and endlessly digging up the great woody rhysomes. We have dug up at least one dustbin's worth and I dig more up every week.

Oh, M0nica, that sounds dreadful!
My particular Japanese Anemone is very passive. It was perfectly polite in my old town front garden & now its out-in the shady back garden in the suburbs & has hardly spread it's petals in more than 20 flipping years alas! Obviously a timid, cautious late- developing sort! 🙃