GIANT HOGWEED

@smar: Added!

ahem.

you forget that Scotch Broom is an invasive plant, working its way –southward– within Cascadia, as witness the annual spring flowing of the damned stuff as it overruns the roadsides of Mill Valley.

yeah, I know, who cares about Mill Valley.

we used to say “who cares about Nanaimo” and now look at the damn stuff, it is creepy everywhere aaaargh the tendrils! khsklhlsslsnlnsn.mmwmsa/. s ; iu

What are you complaining about? You’re too far north for kudzu.

So far…

Wisteria! It nearly ate my carport and was starting to weave it’s tendrils up the front of the house.

@elane: I think Scotch Broom is pretty and I’m not allergic to it. Muah ha ha ha ha ha ha!

I’m not sure how there can even be a contest. Blackberries grow everywhere, invade everything, are impossible to eradicate and have thorns. When the nukes land and only the cockroaches are left, they’ll be living in the blackberry brambles.

I tell people who aren’t from around here that in Cascadia blackberries are a noxious weed, really only good for anything about three weeks out of the year when they’re bearing fruit. Most of them think I’m crazy that anything that produces fruit that good could be such a bother. They haven’t looked out my back window, where the neighbors took out a lot full of blackberries and planted a raised bed garden last year. So far they’ve had to go in and cut down, rip out and otherwise try to do in the blackberries twice since then, and they’re coming back a third time.

English Ivy is my worst in that it creates biological deserts inwhich only it remains, overwhelming trees as well as understory plants. Blackberries are fast and thorny, but is ‘relatively’ easy to eradicate, at least in comparison to ivy. Goats will happily go after blackberry vines but only grudgingly work the ivy.

@Creede: For me, genuinely, the hardest thing to get rid of in place is horsetail. Blackberry, you can at least dig out the roots. Horsetail doesn’t even care if you do that.

@stevegallacci: Something must stop it, or eat it, or something.

I mean, I agree, it’s a noxious weed, but I haven’t had the trouble getting rid of ivy that others have reported. But I haven’t had to try to dig it out of rockeries. So maybe that’s it?

We already **knew** that you were an eeevul mutant, but now it seems quite likely that you’re the one who went back in time and dropped the original seven Scotch Broom plants on Vancouver Island.

Fie upon you!

@UrsusCelticus: I totally forgot to comment that I added your entry! Sorry for the late. ;_;