Curse of the (fill in the blank)....

Will be 71 . Bad back , bad knees , short winded , sour disposition .Quit smoking ,gained another 15 lbs. Wanna be and wanna do .If everything worked, I'd be hell on wheels .lol. digger

LOL ~ I hope it's not catchy! At least your mind still works Digger...

I know this is neither flower nor weed, but one of the worst things in my garden is the "Garden Hose", defined as: A rubber or vinyl tube which, when filled with water, becomes indispensible for wiping out entire beds of seedlings and hard to find or replace plants. Thanks for providing me a place to vent. :) Jim

Digger.....congrats on the stop smoking!!

Thank you,Sheila, I'm not 100% yet. I backslide two or three times a week for one . But for all practical purposes, am at least not two or three packs a day .Thank you Chantix . digger

Keep at it digger 9083! You'll get there. I've a few years on you but in '06 I quit smoking cold turkey - haven't had even a puff since then which is now about 2 years. But it doesn't help the stiff joints, sour disposition, etc. but I'm still hell on wheels if only in my mind. The extra weight doesn't help either.

Ann

With all the help from this thread and friends on the Georgia forums , I can't help but win .I went hot and heavy for sixty years . digger

Chantix was how my DH quit about 4 or 5 years ago. He had tried numerous times on the patches with no luck.

Karlae - re: garden hose... LOL!!!

Digger - re: age...OK, you're the older sibling. And I don't believe for a minute that you have a sour disposition.

Guess I need to get back on topic and put in that the wood sorrel oxalis is one of my hated items, but not as bad as horsetail rush or nutshedge!

karlae, LOL!

This thread popped into my mind this weekend while I was cleaning out flower beds and found lots of seedlings for this plant.

The Jewels of Opar (or Jewels of Ophar) is a carefree (read invasive) plant that freely reseeds. Plantlets are easy to pull up and the blooms and seed pods are cheery. It hitchhiked in on another plant I was given.

Easy to pull up?! Boy, that wasn't my experience. Those things turn into tubers and have to be dug up. Maybe when they're teensy, itsy, bitsy, but by the time I noticed them - it was too late. I was given one - just one - after I admired it at someone's home. My mistake was in planting it. It reseeded everywhere. I had to move to get rid of it.

A few years later, my DH won one at a drawing we hold after our MG meetings. Without thinking, I stood up and refused it for him - telling everyone in no uncertain terms what I thought of it. Now - whenever he wins a plant, they ask me if he can have it. It's a little embarrassing, but I acted out of fear! They look so delicate and innocuous....

LOL ~ I agree, the flowers are a delight but now I wonder if I need to call in a backhoe and excavate. Uh-oh!

pod, you probably have not experienced what cj has because they are not considered root hardy in our zone.

Oak trees!! I swear every single acorn that falls into my yard and/or flower beds sprouts!! I cannot tell you how many seedlings I've had to pull up. If I owned a tree lot it would be okay, but I don't and there's only so many of them I can give away!!

But Jewels of Opar still reseeds prolifically in your zone 8a. Be very careful...

It's funny about the Jewels of Opar. I always here that, but of the three times I have put in a plant, only one of those years did I get a seedling to come up - and only one.

I have a gift plant for Larry===it's a chameleon plant, with a side blackberry vine. Can he have it?????????? Or would you prefer a crinum! Or maybe a flowering almond? I know he will love them and give them plenty of superthrive. haha

LOL, Annette!! You're a stinker! I think he drinks that Superthrive! Does your flowering almond do well here?

Cilantro! I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the stuff, but it has re-seeded in my LAWN everywhere. They love the cooler weather, so before it was warm enough for my husband to be mowing regularly, I had cilantro "weeds" everywhere. It was so funny. I could just walk out onto the back lawn and pick some for my salads!

Sunflowers - I have sunflowers growing on the complete other side of my house. Seeded from the wind.

It must have smelled wonderful after he mowed!

CeeJay, the flowering almond did pretty well until the ginger lily took it over. I love the way the flowers show up on the twigs. The plant was "passed" to me about 30 years ago, and we didn't know what it was until about 5 years ago when I saw it in a catalog! For all those years prior, it was known simply as "Stick Bush".

Digger, its nice to meet some one older than me ... and with the same problems. I am a wannabe and a wannado to. I went to doctors a couple of weeks ago andcomplained that I wanted to stop smoking, just sick of it! He gave me a RX for Chantix, I was in the bed for three days with my stomach and I took it after I ate! I was in tears, not because of the pain but because it cost me 158.00! I am going to try taking it with liquid Gavascon ... it was the only thing that helped.
Sweezel, the same with me about the Jewel of Opar, nothing happen and it eventually died.

Ceejay, thats the Cleyra shurb next to the fence. I hope you can see it.

This is from another regional forum but along the same lines "Your Worst Invasive"

http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/973104/

Perhaps some of their's affect us down here?

Not really - they have theirs and we have ours. Hopefully the two shall never meet. We don't need any more!!

I'd have to say there are several listed that I have a problem with up here.

Virginia Creeper is an issue up here. Once you have it, it's hard to get rid of. I am constantly trimming it back from the trees because it grows wild at the back of my lot by the creek.

The wild onion, like what was in the post Sylvia posted, is really hard to get rid of once it's in the yard.

Fruitless mulberry also pop up and are heck to get rid of once over a few inches tall.

Also musk thistle grows all along the sides of the roads around fields up here. I have several pop up in my yard a year and they are hard to dig out.

The white blooming Yarrow is the most invasive thing I have encountered. Never tried backhoe but my yardman has worked on one bed forever and I have finally given up. A friend in Arkansas gave me a start years ago.

Gabriell, and what does your friend think of the plant? Is it not invasive up there?

City , I only get sick to stomach . Not bad , just enough to be bothersome . I drank 10 oz of water , that helped , but a glass of milk or buttermilk a few minutes before taking the pill works fine , especially if I eat a bite afterward . digger

I am going to try it again ... i will be sure my tummy is full, drink with some milk and with somw Gaviscon.
I am so tired of smelling cigarrette smoke in my house.

I bought a new doublewide and redesigned the inside of it eight years ago .Vowed I would never wash yellow walls again and NEVER smoked inside even in the rain . It's paid off, and non smoking friends come over now. This last Valentines day , I told my son that my present for him this year,after years of begging me to quit , was a mother that didn't smoke. He's 52 and his eyes got teary. He lost his dad six yrs , ago to lung cancer.We had been divorced 30 years , so that didn't affect me , only ds pain of losing him . I was hard core and it took me 3 perscriptions to win , but on the third one ,after a coupla months in between , the third one worked after three weeks . I made up my mind that if I could get through the first 24 hrs . that I could beat it , and on the fourth day of that thought , I did it . Now , I kept the Chantix going , to keep the craving down ,until it was all gone and out of my system and have seven pills to go. I think you have to keep them going for that reason . They are expensive , but not in the long run . Smoking is expensive .Just stay with it and don't reward yourself after a day of not smoking ,by lighting one . That was my problem the first two times, and when I saw that , I knew what I had to do .
I know I'm OTopic and am truely sorry , I type with one finger , and should have put this in dmail. I was way into this b4 I realized , just couldn't go back and redo it . digger

Thanks to all who contributed to this thread! It's unfortunate that we will always find more regrets to add to the top post but it will be so valuable for me when out and shopping for plants, this list tucked in my pocket :)

Ajuga!!!! No, I didn't sneeze. It was planted in my mother's flower garden years ago, and it's pushing back her thick St. Augustine grass for about 10 feet from the edge. It had to jump a sidewalk to get into the grass. We just recently bought an older house, and it's all over the back yard.
My other least favorite grass invader is woods violet. It has spread all over the lawn at my last two homes.

"grass invader" that's a good way to describe it!

DIGGER ... that was a great story ... thanks ... never... reward yourself with a ciggarette . :)

TBWMOM ... I will take all the Ajuga you want to get rid of ... I love it. Last year I bought the new Collasol one, but it dont hang around like Chocalate chip. The purple flowers was up six inches. :)

Sylvia, would some varieties of ajuga be a good companion plant for hostas?

JAPANESE HONEYSUCKLE. Yes, I know all-caps means I'm yelling. I had a landscaper decide that a bit of Japanese Honeysuckle was just what I needed as a cascading ground cover down a rock-rimmed terraced embankment.

I spent the next four years pulling honeysuckle and cursing the guy's ancestors - I didn't get it all out after four years - sold the house instead. The honeysuckle wasn't the reason, but it did make it easier to walk away...

Still have some that comes over the fence from the neighbors'. GRRRR