Hahaha. You poor soul.

Blackberry is evil.

If it is not native to your country don't plant it! Nothing eats it, grows extremely quickly and is very hard to get rid of.

Blackberries grow in thick brambles with nasty thorns. It also has a hardy root system that allows it to regrow if you just cut it down. They also spread a few feet per year, so keeping them contained is a constant (and often painful) battle. If you go too long without paying attention to it, your entire yard will be a mess of thorny brambles that are nearly impossible to kill.

Make sure to try to find a thornless variety. Blackberry thorns will wreak havoc on your body and your clothes

The bramble types do. They'll spread out a few feet every year and new plants will pop up everywhere. They're hard to prune because of the nasty thorns, and as long as there's roots, they'll grow back.

You can get a thornless variety that's much easier to contain. I have one in my front yard that hasn't spread at all.

Extremely hardy, hard to kill, and spiders love them. But the fruit is delicious!

yes, and they have sharp thorns, makes removal them very difficult. apparently is the himlayin blackberry is the notirous hard to kill weed.

the himalyin blackberry is capable of regenerating from root fragments, even if you pull out the whole plant, a small part of it can regenerate.

Well, good news!

You'll certainly have a lot of blackberries if you plant them.

The bushes down near the river by me are about 20 feet thick and 8 feet high. The only other thing growing near them are nettles. It's a genuinely fearsome plant.

Are you in the US? There are a couple of native blackberries that don't grow in brambles, but they are still quite pokey. This one basically grows as a couple of arching canes, usually on a tree line with a few others.

They are evil incarnate

Do those get replicated or something? Crafted from foam, glue and paint?

Bamboo is native to more places than people think.

The funny part is that clumping bamboo actually makes a great privacy hedge. It’s leafy, grows in thick bunches, very quickly hits like 10-20 feet tall (depending on the variety), and doesn’t rapidly spread. So it can be a great option for people looking for a perimeter hedge or property divider.

The tricky part is that most bamboo isn’t clumping. Most is running bamboo, which rapidly spreads, doesn’t grow very tall, and will break past basically every barrier (like sidewalks and landscaping stonework) that most other plants would be stopped by. It’s also extremely difficult to kill, because it stores nutrients in the (extremely wide) root system. So even if you cut it down, it’ll just grow right back again somewhere else.

And plenty of people have accidentally planted running bamboo, thinking it was clumping bamboo.

Crystal cool - Holly

Touching distance, basically

Yet.

They're not dead yet.

Grass lawns started off as a way for pretentious rich people to flaunt how much of their land they could waste on nothing important, so it’s really not worse at all. Just another dumb trend that caught on.

I planted mint in my yard for this exact reason. I hate grass lawns. However local flowers are probably better for local pollinator and bird populations, so I might add those too.

More shade for flees and tics

I can tell you that 30cm of woodchip will do sod all to stop it. My mint grows under 50cm of concrete. It takes a couple of years to get there, but it does!

Wow this grows really well!

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Okay, I’m going to trim this back now.

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How the hell did the mint get over there

I was promised this when I planted mint in ground at my old house, and sure enough, the mint took hold. Alas, my insatiable appetite for mojitos was too much demand for the mint to sustain and I eradiacted it through overharvesting.

would be the best smelling field tho

Oooh. I knew this but for some reason my brain went from "Th ground? Like soil?" to "if I'm not supposed to grow it in a pot of soil, am I meant to grow it on some sort of trellis setup?"

That's why I only plant horseradish!

It smells awesome when you mow. I will not apologize.

all that menthol mint makes is a part of its defenses against insects specifically, and it works in europe. maybe it's better this way, because australia needs zero extra invasive species

Had mint take over the back yard of a rental in Melbourne. Was there for years before we got rid of it.

My grandma's garden got a mint infestation, and I simply rip some up and make fresh mint tea whenever I visit :)

It's really really, good

Well I know what to do if my gardener buddy ever pisses me off

Only in cold/temperate climates, try planting mint in a tropical climate and the thing will just die for whatever reason. I used to have a planter with it, then I moved it a bit, to a spot where there was less shade, and the thing died in days.

You make that sound like it's a bad thing and not, in fact, free garlic.

Thank you for acknowledging my pain

True, but I credit the environs being just right Enough sun, not too much moisture, decent soil, and also the specific variety. Probably a bunch of tomatoes I wouldn't be able to grow.