Joined: 28 Oct 2004 Posts: 7100 Location: Morecambe, Lancashire
Posted: Fri May 13, 05 8:33 pm Post subject:
Russian Vine - I detest that stuff
Joanne
wellington womble
Joined: 08 Nov 2004 Posts: 15051 Location: East Midlands
Posted: Fri May 13, 05 9:32 pm Post subject:
mint?
I bought a gardening book recently, which had a page dedicated what shouldn't be grown as it wasn't native and would spread, and semi-warnings about some some plants - it was an american book though so the plants didn't apply - one of them was yarrow, i recall!
gavin
Joined: 10 Feb 2005 Posts: 93 Location: Leeds, W Yorks
Posted: Sun May 15, 05 9:21 am Post subject:
Category C plants???
Russian vine can do a good job of holding a rickety shed together
Mint needs tight control - so does horseradish; and the comfreys (not the sterile Bocking 14). Feverfew?
Rhododendrons. The species that can spread in our woodlands, bloody awful stuff. Pretty, but destructive.
I'd also be careful not to grow plants that look edible but aren't; I took the liberty of uprooting some deadly nightshade from just outside the gates of a local primary school two years ago. Didn't seem the right place for it (and it's common enough locally anyway).
Mint's OK if you either grow it in a pot or cut the bottom out of an old bucket and put that in the bed and then put the mint in it to stop it spreading. I couldn't be without the stuff!
Absoloutely concur on rhododendrons - pointless bloody things anyway/
I cycled past a great big hemlock plant by the Cam yesterday. It's right by a pathway, at one of the bridges. Don't really like it there, but I guess it'll do no harm.
judith
Joined: 16 Dec 2004 Posts: 22789 Location: Montgomeryshire
Posted: Mon May 16, 05 8:42 am Post subject:
gavin wrote:
Feverfew?
That one gets my vote too. I didn't listen to my sister when she told me not to plant it in my garden.
That one gets my vote too. I didn't listen to my sister when she told me not to plant it in my garden.
Ahh, yes. We got it in a 'wild flower' seed mix. That and borage made a concerted attempt to take over the garden. It was only stopped by the lemon balm.
Feverfew is a beautiful plant, but such a thug.
wellington womble
Joined: 08 Nov 2004 Posts: 15051 Location: East Midlands
Posted: Mon May 16, 05 9:16 am Post subject:
I must have black fingers! My mint is struggling, and hanging on by a leaf or two, my lemon balm died, and although I had feverfew for a year or too, its gone now. I've had borage in the past, but it hasn't self seeded, and my boston ivy apppears to have died as well.
Perhaps I should rent myself out as an organic weedkiller!
I have lots of bindweed turning up in unexpected (and awkward) places though!
Joined: 21 Dec 2004 Posts: 24585 Location: mid-Wales
Posted: Fri May 20, 05 9:24 am Post subject:
It's going well: I'm currently imbragnled in a large design for a couple who are 'downsizing' from a stately home (no joke!) to a large farmhouse with several acres. As well as overseeing another big project near here, and, of course, our own garden...
And didn't Treac say he was going to write a nasty plants article? (Says she trying to get out of a job...)
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