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30-03-2006, 06:35 AM posted to rec.gardens

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What have been your worst or most disastrous gardening nightmare
experience/s
you've had so far - not the ones that occur in sleep dreaming, but any
disastrous or incredibly lousy garden work,

Last year I had what I thought was perennial coreopsis (sp?) coming back
strongly in two of my wildflower boxes. I let it grow and grow and it
got really big and took over. No problem, I thought at the time. A
couple of nice swatches of that plant would look interesting. When it
bloomed, instead of yellow flowers it had these tiny white flowers. A
quick search on the Internet revealed that what I had grown into
sizeable plants was common chickweed, a horrible horrible weed which
chokes its competition. I spent the rest of the summer eradicating that
plant from the boxes.