What have been your worst or most disastrous gardening experience/s?

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.

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.

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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 access.

Bill

On the day of Wed, 29 Mar 2006 13:28:30 GMT... "Lynn" typed these letters:

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

Devonshire

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.

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.

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.