Why Oh Why Did I Sew Tansy?

[GILL B]

I sewed some tansy seeds - it was something to do with companion planting. I can't even remember what now - but it is a surviver and is springing up all over. Does anyone else have a regret about introducing a plant?

[oldherbaceous]

Evening GILL B, Theres two, when i used to live at home, it was that dreaded Russian Vine, and in my own garden it was Red Campion.
Lukily they have both been eradicated now.

[Weed]

Three years ago...poached egg plants...still trying to get rid of 'em

[Bren]

Macleaya, polygonum, Meadow rue, Opium Poppy,Spiderworth, Lords and Ladies, a few of the ones that keep popping up all over the place, I grew them some years ago when I was going to Flower arranging classes and needed lots of flowers and foliage.

Bren

[Jenny Green]

Creeping Jenny Crept everywhere. Geraniums are a weed in my garden. Petasites.
I think plants should come with warnings - this is a thug!

[Chantal]

Periwinkle

[lizzie]

Several of the above i've planted. In my defence all i'll say is I thought it was a good idea at the time. Next time I say "oh, I know what i'll do...." Grock has the authority to stop me bby any method open to her

[Monika]

I think I've planted or sown most of the things mentioned above, successfully got rid of ome of them and still suffer from others. I can particularly sympathise with Weed about the poached egg flower. I saw it mentioned as a "green manure" recently but Ican't imagine how you would be able to dig it in and thereby killing it because I am still trying to get rid of a patch which I sowed (and dug in and dug in and dug in) about three years ago! Honesty is another one, but they all look so lovely and do attract lots of insects, so I think I'll just let them live!

I recently planted some lily of the valley in an otherwise unused part of the garden under an ivy-overgrown dry stone wall and a neighbour said, I must be mad because it will take over the garden! So I am now hoping he is wrong.

[Mike Vogel]

Salsify is my most noticeable plant-cum-weed. Saves buying seed and sowing, but it only becomes worth digging about now, when the root has started to go woody. It has taken me a few years to realise that it's getting out of control [my control, that is].

mike

[Chantal]

Belinda, I've had Lily of the Valley in my garden for over 20 years and it's not spread much at all. It's actually moved about 2ft South but that's hardly a take over.

[Johnboy]

Hi Gill,
Tansy makes wonderful compost so if you cannot get rid of it keep cropping it to prevent is going up to seed and eventually it will die out. In the meantime reap the benefit!
JB.

[GILL B]

Johnboy - You star! That is wonderful advice which I will most certainly follow.
It's strange how the things you want don't do well. I have planted lilly of the valley and poached egg plant and both have died out on me.