Plants you regret planting

Do you mean the Mile A Minute is dying or you want to get rid of it?

 

Love alchemilla mollis but it does seed too much. Beautiful after rain or morning dew when the foliage sparkles. Name escapes me but there is a more compact, non seeding variety

 

Hi luciusmaximus no its not dying mile a minute is very invasive, i put it in for a quick fix for privacy while other climbers catch up, with the intention of removing it at a later date when plants i want give me privacy,

I have cut it back the last two years, this year ive cut it right back, the old growth that is now dead is providing support for climbers i want to keep,

Next year i will loose it/kill it as my climbers will be doing the job the mile a minute has been doing providing privacy,

I hope that makes sense.


Most of the above is mile a minute that is now dead but among it are various climbers including roses that's still alive,

Ive cut it to the ground this year.

 

I will admit it did look a bit bare once the ivy had gone, but I don't like empty spaces, so I planted this.




It's completely replaced it now.

 

I cut mine right back to soil level a couple of years ago to try and remove it from its pot. When I couldn't get it out I dragged the pot into a corner out of sight and sort of forgot about it. Over the space of several months it sneakily regrew and entwined itself around the nearest trees and bushes . I have to admire its tenacity.

 

There was one in a pot when I moved here - someone on here even ID'd it as Japanese knotweed!
I gave it a weed killer treatment (roots and all) and it never recovered Tenacious it may be, but, it hadn't bargained taking on an "M"

 

Thats what ive done this year, i want it to send some shoots on the lower part of my fence i will direct them low when it starts growing again and poison it in autumn,


The climbing roses are starting to get a good hold, i cant wait for them to start covering the fence, ive been bending them horizontal so they throw vertical shoots up.

 

I've been attempting something similar with fence between ours and next door's drive. It was a 4ft fence but I replaced it with 6ft panels and put some trellis on the top. There's five roses and two mayleen clematis.


This was just a couple of months growth last year. I'm quite pleased as it gets very little sun.

 

I regret having curry plants in our garden...the air here was blue at times

As soon as the sun hit them and especially when they was in yellow flower, you could have swore you had a crowd of junkies on your back smoking ... here's the horrible plant

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Looks good DR , yes looks like we are both trying to achieve a similar thing, mine looks untidy atm i broke my secateurs and need to replace them and trim last years growth,

I notice you using wire as supports, i bought these hangers and some wire but not got round to installing them, there used for electric fences ideal for the job.
Wolseley Screw-In Ring Insulators 25 Pack

 

We had a conifer on the drive, not my favourite tree. And to my mind an eyesore. The tree surgeon soon ended its days , 2 years back Amazing amount of wood and branches came of it , he was shredding for half an hour.

 

I use wire supports on my fence panels for Clematis , Sweet peas etc. I use zinc plated screw eyes placed into some 2 x 1 tanalised timber , then screw this to the panel. I then wire up using Gardman heavy duty coated wire 2.0 Dia . I have tried a cheaper make and the plastic coating is poor .

 

This is the best way of supporting plants on fences.

However I'd have drilled the concrete posts and screwed the eyes into them, regardless of is intended to support. This facilitates replacing a panel if necessary without disturbing the planting, as long as you can get your neighbour to do the same. If you can't, when a panel is replaced, your stuff will be OK, they'll have the problem. It also reduces the likelihood of losing a panel due to combination of the weight of the plant and the action of the wind on both the panel and the plant. The wires will also be able to take a greater weight of plant, without the eyes being pulled out of possibly deteriorating wood in the panels.

This wisteria is very heavy. You can the weight of the branches pulling down on the wires.
The panels on their own would not be able to take the weight. I've used quite big screw eyes in the posts.





I use the bottom wire later in the year to attach and loop retaining wires for the dahlias, to give them some support.





Eyes and screws cost a fortune these days. I get mine "pick n' mix," from Wilkos. You can fill a bag with a big assortment for about three quid.

 

I regret having planted 'temporarily' a Comfrey plant and now I keep finding shoots appearing in precisely the wrong place! I know it's good as a 'tea' but anyone know how I can get rid of this plant in the wrong place?

 

No idea I'm afraid but hopefully someone will be able to advise