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, or project/s done on either
your own current or former
garden (or someone else's) by either yourself, or done by someone else.

well, I once planted what I thought was caroline lupine (thermopsis) and it
turned out to be a related-but-much-more invasive western version of the
same plant. By year two, it was sending out runners 10 feet away (under
sidewalks, for instance) by the dozens. It took about 2 garden seasons of
constant pulling to eradicate it. (On the other hand, it would be a great
plant for some wild meadowy garden on big acreage, but not in my
postage-stamp size garden)
"Brian" wrote in message
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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, or project/s done on either
your own current or former
garden (or someone else's) by either yourself, or done by someone else.

My aunt was sharing some of her plants with me and when she showed me this
little creeping one that had tiny blue/purple flowers on it I said I wanted
it too. Well six years later I am still trying to get this weed out of my
flower beds and lawn.

--
Lynn


"Brian" wrote in message
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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, or project/s done on either
your own current or former
garden (or someone else's) by either yourself, or done by someone else.

Paying $350 for a bristle cone pine in memory of my mother and planting it in her
garden and despite TLC it died. Now there is a weeping something replacement and I
am told it too is browning out. Now everything else in that garden is flourishing
and the garden center has a great rep.
2nd worst is letting wild geranium hitchhike in on something. I am battling that for
2 years. Ingrid

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What have been your worst or most disastrous gardening nightmare
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disastrous or incredibly lousy garden work, or project/s done on either
your own current or former
garden (or someone else's) by either yourself, or done by someone else.



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Planting mint by my garden beds, it grew better than anything else and
tried to take over.

Planting Lamb's Ears in the flower bed, because I thought it was
pretty. Until it tried to over-run everything else.

But the best one was my first rock wall around a tree. When I was done
and stepped back to look at it I laughed until I cried. It was the
funniest looking thing I've ever made. Then I had fun demolishing it
and started over. Third time was the charm!

Ajuga (SP) and hops. Both VERY invasive. I planted the hops ;((.
Otherwise planting too close to foundations or other plants even if my
father in-law warned me about how plants grow. Keeping house
foundation clear helps with termites here. They like secret hidden
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On the day of Wed, 29 Mar 2006 13:28:30 GMT...
"Lynn"
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My aunt was sharing some of her plants with me and when she showed me this
little creeping one that had tiny blue/purple flowers on it I said I wanted
it too. Well six years later I am still trying to get this weed out of my
flower beds and lawn.

--
Lynn


Sounds like periwinkle. If it is you aren't alone in your battles
against it

Devonshire

In article says...
My aunt was sharing some of her plants with me and when she showed me this
little creeping one that had tiny blue/purple flowers on it I said I wanted
it too. Well six years later I am still trying to get this weed out of my
flower beds and lawn.

That must be creeping charlie. My officemate had it so bad he used
gasoline and torched his entire yard, replaced a few inches of dirt, and
replanted grass. The creeping charlie returned. To honor this plant, I
have one container set aside for creeping charlie. It can't do any
damage in a container garden and it turned out to be a rather nice
looking dangly vine. It also requires no care and comes back every
year.

In article says...
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.

No that's not it, but it is pretty.
--
Lynn


"Devonshire" wrote in message
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Sounds like periwinkle. If it is you aren't alone in your battles
against it

Devonshire

That's it!!!
frigging stuff! I weeded it from my front flower garden (where I orginally
planted it) and just tossed it on the ground. then it grew there and spread
like wild fire. it wraps around other plants and is the most miserable
stuff. I don't mind it too much in the grass but in the flower beds I cuss
it daily.

--
Lynn


"Mark Anderson" wrote in message
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That must be creeping charlie. My officemate had it so bad he used
gasoline and torched his entire yard, replaced a few inches of dirt, and
replanted grass. The creeping charlie returned. To honor this plant, I
have one container set aside for creeping charlie. It can't do any
damage in a container garden and it turned out to be a rather nice
looking dangly vine. It also requires no care and comes back every
year.