Regrets ... we've all had a few ...

What do you most regret planting?

For me, it must be Clematis cirrhosa. Graham Rice goes on and on about the virtues of this dainty evergreen Majorcan beauty, with its bell-like winter flowers. He also maintains that it is less vigorous that Clematis armandii and therefore more manageable. Huh! He hasn't seen mine. The damn thing is everywhere, sending up long, layering stems which get everywhere if you don't watch it. It is evergreen, but mostly what you see are its bare, scrappy looking legs. The flowers are pretty but tiny and (at least in my garden) a bit sparsely produced. They're supposed to be scented but I've never exactly been overwhelmed by its perfume. Altogether a garden treasure which I'd quite happily live without. And so would my ninety year old neighbour, who is of the neat, orderly row school of gardening. It's swamping her garden as well. I've just spent hours trying to tame it.

 

For me it is Bamboo......................

for most of the above reasons :dh:

 

Ditto. And foxgloves and Russian Vine and physalis and Japanese anemone, not to mention the poached egg plant. :flag:

 

Prunella and ferns. I introduced them both to my last garden and really regretted it.
They get everywhere and are just about impossible to get rid of.

 

Bamboo nuff said :lollol:

 

Clara, you have REALLY surprised me there, to me,C cirrhosa is a gentle plant.:thumb:

 

So I'm told, daitheplant. I really wasn't prepared for how quickly the thing has grown and how many sturdy, bald stems it has managed to produce. At the moment I'm trying to persuade it not to strangle a Clematis armandii, which is usually described as 'robust'. :flag:

 

Any chance of a pic of this rogue plant, because I don`t think it is Cirrhosa. It sounds more like a Montana.:gnthb:

 

Here it is, diatheplant, doing a good job of stifling a Clematis armandii. I have to admit I have tried to grow far too much in a small space and am now paying the price. Even so, I was surprised by its exuberance!

 

I am amazed and astounded. That looks very much like C. cirrhosa Balearica. A plant which should only grow 13ft to 15ft at the maximum. It should NEVER stifle an Armandii.

 

Maybe I have a rogue, Daitheplant! :lollol: I have to be honest and say that really, my little town garden is not nearly big enough for the plants I'm trying to grow. I'm just addicted to plants; I can't help myself. I always knew that everything would have to be carefully controlled if it were not to become a jungle. However, what has surprised me is that the cirrhosa layers itself very easily where its stems touch the ground. It has therefore managed not only to grow through the fence into my neighbour's garden but also to develop a sturdy root system there. She is not happy about it. She thought all clematis were like Nelly Moser! Oh dear ... I think I'll have to go next door and do something about it ...

 

I have two plants I wish I didn't have ...

1) Passiflora caerulea which I stupidly brought with me from the UK and I cannot get rid of it and if you attempt to uproot it, it shoots shoot everywhere and beyond ... and my Sis (Kedi-Gato from Germany) has this same problem that it comes up everywhere you don't want it.

2) Oenothera speciosa 'Rosea', the pink Evening Primrose that blooms in the daytime ... very pretty, as is the above but an absolute nightmare that seeds itself everywhere with roots going to hell so you cannot eradicate it.

And I brought both of these nightmares here from the UK ........ :flag:

 

My OH thinks he has the answer, Dai. My plant is the result of a brief union between delicate Majorcan beauty Cirrhosa and an uncouth chav called Montana who got blind drunk one night whilst on holiday in the Balearics.