Mine are morning glories. I know they are only annuals but I can't get rid of them. I planted 3 different kinds 15yrs ago. what was I thinking?
:)Laura

I really cant think of anything that I havent been able to get rid off, maybe common h fulva, but I was able to weed that out as well...

However Laura, how does your morning glories set seed? Ive been growing them for years and years, I can barely get them to flower before first frosts here, Ive never seen a seed pod on them!

silverkelt
mine are grandpa ott and 2 other no named devils.
trust me you don't want these. they reseed the best in hot dry areas like my herb garden. they grow 10ft a day! well not really, but it seems like it.lol
:)Laura

I always pay attention to these kinds of posts, looking for things that might actually grow in my yard!

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Most of my tobacco plants didnt make a garsh darn seed before they got frost bit. Hopefully the pink ones did, didnt see any seedlings yet tho.

My worst enemy is Campanula glomerata (bellflower) or as it is known at my house--purple s#!+. Last year I completely tore out 3 beds because of it. It not only takes over a bed but also goes crazy in the lawn. I resorted to using Round-up on it and it seemed to love it. I just cringe when I see it in garden centers.
Judi

Orange trumpet vine. It never blooms, it just grows and grows.

Mint...in the ground...and not in a container where it should be imprisoned. But, is it really my enemy when I love it so much? Should I complain when I need to make a good mojito or flavor my ice tea and all I have to do is go out my front door, even blindfolded, and reach my hand out? I am guaranteed to find mint no matter what direction my hand takes.

Maybe it's just friendly, and enjoys snuggling up with the root systems of every other plant in the garden, popping through the earth to keep them company.

deanna, lol, that was too funny!

:)Laura

Poison ivy. And it's out to get me. It hides in all my best beds, and grabs my hands when I work in the roses it brushes my ankles when I smell the honeysuckle in the winter its dry brown camouflaged twigs will slap an unexposed cheek if I am not careful when I play with the dog.

So far I have not created any franken-plants that I regret... but I got 156 kinds of seeds to try this year so I may meet one yet...

Ditto so many of these for me. Will never plant another morning glory, and though we have a 20' long trellis of trumpet vine that blooms beautifully (it was here when we bought..) it does invade everywhere in it's reach. My nicotinia has been a well behaved reseeder but I have a feeling this years tall batch (the white kind with the drooping trumpets) may reseed too much - we'll see.

A plant I battle in "spread" every year is gooseneck loosestrife (white flowers). I've given up on ever trying to be rid of it, but want it to keep to it's "patch", about 4'by 3'. It would like to be 3 times that and I have to be vigilant in the spring, digging up underground runners.

Verbena bonariensis. I've been trying to get rid of it for 2 years but it pops up new seedlings all over the yard all summer.

I also dug out a bunch of nicotiana which had perennialized across the back of my house. Roots were huge, fat, and long, reaching to hell and back.
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Karen

I usually walk around the garden in flip flops or clogs, comfy but not much protection against anything prickly touching the exposed parts of the feet.

I don't find them too often but every now and then the dandelion from hell appears and I only find it because I've stepped on it. This is a plant that looks very much like a dandelion, and is probably a close relation, and it has thorny prickers on its leaves. Youch, yoiks, ouch, grrrrr. I step on it and I am retired for the day. I go soak my foot and drown my sorrows in a vodka and tonic.

Gooseneck Loosestrife and Lemon Balm,I almost croaked when I went to a Master Gardners plant sale and they were selling Lemon Balm... nuff said!

Vinca minor...ugh! Grows like the the Energizer Bunny of plants in our yard. Didn't even plant it myself...but it's everywhere and just keeps growing and growing.

Lemon Balm, I call it Lemon Beast.

It makes a lovely round ball if you prune it down to nubbins a few times a year month, or every other week, or heck just mow it down when you cut the grass every week.

But it always comes back for more. It ALWAYS comes back. Always.

lol, Trudi, it not only comes back it re-seeds like the dickens!!!!! I do prune mine and as much as I hate it, I love the scent when I brush it in the garden...I give away lots and lots of Lemon (Beast) Balm and Gooseneck, I do warn they are very invasive.

Lemon balm and Hops! Oh how I rue the day I planted those w/s hops seedlings. Removed the mother vine, but now I have shoots coming up on the other side of the house! It's taking over English Ivy..and that's a task! Never, never plant hops as a fast growing cover vine..you'll be sorry.

Cleomes. I wouldn't mind the billion seedlings if I could move them where I want them but they never seem to survive transplanting.

Yes, I was culling out a million cleome volunteers last year, too. Pretty as the flowers are, I just can't take that nasty odor. No more cleome for me for a while either.

It smells like BO

Karen

All I can say, is what a difference a zone makes sometimes!

Or even if not different zones, different climates.. There are a few things that will grow beastly and survive, but for the most part becuase I have such a short growing season, Im FRETTING that any of my annuals will produce seeds before the first frosts. I can have my first frosts around august 30th but have had it as late as oct 20th here. Last year it was around sept 15, or normal.

BTW I like both lemon balm and mints, peppermints and spearmints, My wife loves them as a tea mixture... the shakers used that mix and its still a lovely one.

Laura, Ive grown grandpa otts.. no seed pods here..

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I wish my nicotinia would do that LOL! That was beautiful!

This was a mixture of grandpa otts and heavenly blue I think, This was at my old home, but I had to start these every year. This last year I just did some bedding type and let it ramble into a nikko blue hydrangea plant.

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Silverkelt

My morning glories go nuts, too. Have seedlings every where. Zone does make a difference! I will say that you can more or less keep the seedlings pulled if you wish in our area. More or less. :- )

The real enemies are/were wild honeysuckle (I marvel that anyone would intentionally plant that tree-strangling beast!) and bermuda grass (which truly does have roots all the way down to hell). I know there are different types of honeysuckle, but I just can't get over trying to control it in a wooded area with lots of young saplings at our old house!