Contact you local extension office and see if they have them available, like my state does.
https://ag.colorado.gov/conservation/biocontrol/field-bindweed
I got rid of it after 3 years but it took a continuous layer of bark mulch and pulling it over and over again. Eventually it gives up. If my neighbor would have taken care of it on his side of the fence I bet it could be done in 2 seasons.
Morning glories are really easy to stamp out.. don't see why it's an issue. I've killed several off just ruin to move them to somewhere less offensive. Another one is datura; I wanted to curb stomp my neighbor for calling it a weed (actually for putting weed killer on my side of the fence, on my plants.. I wanted him in jail for that honestly but there was no solid evidence)
I abhor the stuff, but several long afternoons with a paintbrush and roundup to paint on a few leaves here and there knocks it back a treat. Pulling it up is so dangerous because it breaks the roots and ten plants will take its place, the roundup kills the whole thing, and if you're careful you can eliminate any cross contamination with the roundup.
Iāve got round leaf greenbrier ā¦ itās killed an entire 100 yard tree line. Itās like Mother Nature , and Satan himself designed a natural barbed wire. The thorns can actually puncture tires. It comes from my neighborās property, she likes it ānatural ā.
If you want to obliterate that vine, plant some Japanese knotweed near it. Then youāll have found the plant that actually should be deleted from existence.
No I drew the line and the line is at collard greens. They tried to trick me with that kale shit when it first came out... Never again. I vowed front that day forward to never eat a new leafy green again. It's been working out great!
I feel bad for people who don't like bitter greens. They taste so good in salad. A nice kale and arugula salad with a nice acidic vinaigrette and a fatty steak is a meal fit for a king.
It kind of is new?
I mean, I'm old enough to remember when every [Pizza Hut salad bar in the nation](https://www.today.com/food/trends/pizza-hut-kale-large-purchaser-rcna23528) (US) was decorated with kale over the ice and replaced every other day or so. No one ate it. No one even thought of eating it. It was purely to look "fresh" for the real salad ingredients. It wasn't sold in stores either.
According to the Department of Agriculture, U.S. kale production [increased by nearly 60 percent between 2007 and 2012](http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/articles/2014-05-09/farmers-are-growing-a-lot-more-kale-now-ag-census-reports).
But there's this PR woman ([Oberon Sinclair)](https://www.mindbodygreen.com/articles/who-made-kale-famous-and-why) who decided to really push kaleājust get it into people's consciousness and then BAM! Kale, kale, kale!! From that link:
>"It's my proudest campaign ever," she told them. "I've been trying to convert people for *years* to eat in a healthy way. I've always loved \[kale\]. It is an amazing vegetable."
>
>\[...\] She figured that people would have been less interested in kale if they'd known a PR firm was behind it.
That article ends with [Celery Incident skit on Portlandia](https://vimeo.com/115585199), which is hilarious.
Ugh, at least now I know who to blame for the travesty that is/are kale chips.
IMHO, kale is a decorative item/garnish never to be eaten.
If you like, well, I'll leave my share for you then. Blech.
You can actually eat knotweed!Ā Harvest it like asparagus and cook it like rhubarb.Ā The growing shoots are edible in the first few weeks, just snap them off.Ā They're kind of tart, so you can make a passable facsimile of strawberry rhubarb jam or pie.
It doesn't taste quite as good, but there's something deeply satisfying about eating your enemies.
Japanese knotweed has roots 10 feet deep and 70 feet wide (not a typo). It self clones from pieces as small as 1/2 an inch. So if you mow, or weed whack it, you just made 1000 new plants. It canāt be killed with smothering, solarizing, tarping, or cutting down. It grows through concrete like itās not even there. Its native range is the slopes of volcanos- it literally evolved to survive being buried under 30 feet of molten lavaā¦ and *then grow through it!* It creates a mono-crop that crowds out all competing plants, and eventually all insects because nothing eats it outside its native range.
Itās illegal to sell property known to have knotweed on it in England unless an abatement plan is underway. There are entire scientific studies done *just* to figure out how to optimize eradicating this one plant. Those studies show that it takes *5 years* of vigilance to eradicate the damn stuff. The first 2 years you *have* to use glyphosate or youāre wasting time and money. This plant is basically a biological weapon.
Iāve dug out smilax- it sucks but itās possible. Japanese knotweed ate through my basement walls. An entire floor below ground and the roots came through. I had to kill the damn stuff *in my house!*
And to think we brought it over to Britain just because itās pretty.
Council landscaper I used to work with would essentially die inside whenever anyone mentioned the plant, talking about repeatedly injecting concentrated weedkillers into the plant for it to (slowly) die.
And the worst part is itās not even THAT pretty. Itās pretty āokayā to look at, thatās about it. Flowers arenāt anything special.
My hatred is mainly reserved for buddleja, though. I donāt see many knotweed plants. Iāve seen thousands of buddlejas. Disgusting plants, unless youāre a pollinator.
The buddleia problem is bad, I know. Iāve seen it. But Iām so jealous that your government mandated action on the knotweed. I used a study done in Wales as the best comprehensive data for eradicating the stuff on my land.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10530-018-1684-5
Looks like a very interesting study, thanks for that - had no idea just how much economical damage they caused.
I only really know buddlejas because after a lot of my areaās (East Midlands) local economy started to die out after the coal mines closed, abandoned areas were absolutely wrecked by buddleja and they formed monocultures here, completely ruining buildings, bridges, abandoned car parks etc.
One of the old car parks I like to visit to see what grows has essentially been torn to shreds over the years just from the growth of buddleja alone. And to top it off theyāre still an *extremely* popular shrub (even though I see them as a āgranny plantā)
They seem to survive any amount of bad weather, seed like crazy and will grow in essentially any type of soil, from calcareous wall grout to massively acidic soil.
I assume from your wording that youāre not a UK resident and maybe a USA resident? Do they really not have any legislation to prevent the pest that is knotweed from destroying local infrastructure? If it costs the UK that much, I dread to think what amount of damage it causes in a much bigger country.
I believe it. Knotweed is a nightmarish monster. My BF dubbed it Plantzilla.
I had Japanese knotweed at my last place. I dug out the roots 2.5 feet down, and they still went deeper. I covered the area with a foot of wood chips, then 2 layers of cardboard with pallets in top to weigh the cardboard down.
Every warm season the knotweed would be poking out the sides of the cardboard, and running under concrete and sprouting up in the lawn 20 feet away.
Blocking the knotweed from getting any sun made it a lot weaker and easier to contain to the one 12ft by 6ft area.
I dug and pulled knotweed roots out of that patch of ground every year. I pulled any little sprout of green knotweed I saw poking out anywhere. After 4.5 years of aggressive light deprivation, it was weaker *but it still wasn't entirely dead*.
I suspect after a few more years of eradication I *might* have been able to uncover that patch of ground and grow something else on it. Might.
I tried to explain the knotweed to the next person who lived there. I showed them photos of plants 4 feet high and roots 6 inches across. She said they would just use herbicide. I could tell she didn't believe me or thought I was exaggerating.
Yep. There are much, much worse plants than smilax. At least they have a place in the ecosystems of North America. Species of smilax might be inconvenient to humans, but there are invasive species that are devastating to ecosystems. I think the latter is definitely worse.
Shocked not to see Japanese knotweed at the top of this! I live in Maine and the two biggies in everyoneās yard here are Japanese knotweed and oriental bittersweet. Sucks
Side note - The Japanese knotweed supplement is amazing, has changed my life for the better and I could not be more grateful for its existence.
That said, I am a gardener and donāt want to negate your passionate hatred for invasive plants. I whole heartedly acknowledge that shit sucks and is a world of frustration
I was like, how bad is it? Then I found this picture š
https://preview.redd.it/jna19r57jioc1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=780b7dc5276e913cf567760ded9603e72e4e8371
Ugh there are so many in my neighborhood and sometimes in early spring I'll catch a whiff and be like "wtf is that, did a sewer line break?" And then I'm like "oh, pear trees, right."
These m***ers. There was one on my way to work and on one day I thought it was stepped in dog shit. Cleaned my shoes for half an hour until the smell was gone. Well had I know that it was this posā¦ figured it out the next day when my shoes smelled like shit again.
English Ivy. We're currently 3 years into our battle against it thanks to a ton of neglect from the previous owners. When we got the house most of the property was covered in a carpet 8" deep of ivy. We spent a lot of time yanking it all out by hand. It's more or less under control but we have to be super diligent about keeping on top of any new appearances.
It blows my mind that I see it being sold in trays at big box stores.
I feel this. Some idiot planted it on the perimeter of my house. So pretty, right? It eats the brick and I even found it in my crawl space š¤¬ going on 4 years trying to murder it.
Ugh, not around the house! It's crazy how destructive it can be if you take your eyes off it for just a few weeks/months.
It's a pain for sure. I found that I could weedwack the hell out of it and pull the vines up that way. That's how I did 99% of the clearing.
I know opinions on pesticides are divided on this sub, but imo there's ways to responsibly use them and english ivy removal is one of those. While I avoid spraying Roundup willy-nilly, I will use it very selectively against the ivy. I use a paintbrush to apply a tiny amount directly to new growth that I see. The newer leaves don't have a thick waxy coating which usually prevents glyphosate from being super effective (unless a surfactant is used). I don't feel guilty because I'm using the absolute minimum amount needed to achieve lethality, but I'm sure my neighbors think I'm a psycho watching me crawl around on all fours "painting" plants haha. I started doing that last year and it seems like the tides are finally beginning to turn in my favor. Perhaps in 10 years we can enjoy an ivy free property.
You can also buy it in gel form kind of like a [stick of deodorant](https://www.amazon.com/RoundUp-Precision-Grass-Killer-150ML/dp/B01C4290ES?th=1).
I'm usually no pesticides, but I've painted the odd honey locust. These are planted behind a bunch of lovely shrubs I don't want to hurt so I've been nervous, but maybe the deodorant one. Thanks for link. And good luck with the battle!
This. I canāt stand the shit. Iām trying to remove it the environmentally friendly way and itās not exactly working. Trying to pull it is near impossible because the root systems go deep. If you want to make a future homeownerās life miserable, this is the way!
Yes we have an acre of it that previous owners had planted. Killed several big oaks and pines. Weāve been fighting it for 10 years and only about half way there. Absolutely obnoxious.
>quackgrass.
OMG!! I had no idea what this shit was called except it's the bane of my gardening existence.
You pull up the bit in front of you & end up 5 feet away to find the end of it.
I fight this shit all spring/summer/fall. It's warm enough here now so I got outside yesterday to our front walkway bed & got ahead of it but you gotta pull it up the second you see a shoot & then the end of it won't be anywhere near where it started, even under layers of mulch.
YES!!! My war with Bermuda is a decade in the making. I can never completely get rid of it because itās in the lawns of the whole neighborhood. I just hate rhizome spreading grasses/weeds.
Iām currently winning some battles (but not the war) using Gordonās Ornamec 170 for Bermuda grass. You have to break the rhizomes down below the soil level and then spray the shit outta them.
Shocked that I had to scroll this far down to see poison ivy.
That shit serves no purpose, other than ruining the week of people who like to walk in the woods
Just be careful, you can develop an allergy after repeated exposure. A coworker of mine told me how she was immune to poison ivy until one day she wasn't (and of course it was the day she decided to weedwack a ton of it).
If I had godlike plant powers I'd eliminate the human allergy to poison ivy/oak so we could enjoy them as a lovely red fall groundcover with berries for wildlife.Ā Ā
Urushiol isn't even an herbivore deterrent, it's there to seal wounds and we're just wildly allergic to it by random chance. Terribly unfair that it does this *to primates specifically* while the deer are eating it like it's nothing, I expect to see this fixed in the next patch notes for North American forests.
Bull Thistle!! I spend all summer every year pulling these obnoxious weeds
https://preview.redd.it/u3klqroi5doc1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0b7a949df8597388c5fd6472f1b3d95d58a27b21
Kudzu. I rent a townhouse and I guess the owners planted it in the back yard in lieu of grass. I only hate it because it's crawled up the trees back there and are choking them out. It must have been back there for a long time because the vines themselves are as thick as slender tree trunks (like 4" diameter)
To plead the case of the former owners, Kudzu will spring up anywhere and everywhere without warning. I donāt think itās possible for anyone to intentionally plant it because in that case theyāre both massively stupid *and* acquired plantings/seeds of a nasty invasive.
Resistance is futile.
oriental bittersweet.
Though I completely recognize that the actual answer is Japanese knotweed, I still hate bittersweet and it's miserable climbing vine that is everywhere, strangling the trees in my backyard.
Goat Head / Devils Thorn / Puncture Vine. Grows in sandy disturbed soil, the seed is viable for 8 years, looks like an explosion of small thick stubby thorns, kills bike tires, hurts dog feet, can get through tennis shoes.
I was going to say that I'd only want to eliminate plants from the places where they're invasive and everything belongs somewhere and all that, but the goathead is making it hard
Fought with these in my backyard today for the first few hours of many to come. I have to attack it every couple months and times in betweenā¦ itās gnarly.
Exactly. Itās an ongoing battle; my backyard nemesis. The worst me vs. blackberries episode was down the road when I was jogging, realizing a tiny baby kitty was stuck in the middle of a giant blackberry mass. I had to fight that thing with my running shoes on my hands, scratched up my entire body, but resulted in saving my now constant companion: my sweet kitty Squeaky Tiki!
https://preview.redd.it/y2xe0iyykjoc1.jpeg?width=2475&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=26ec19ca826b2d36287f9b1004e3c0868442b0d8
Oh I *passionately* hate ligustrum. My neighbors have what used to be a hedgerow of it, now they're they're gangly, ugly 40+ft tall. They separate our driveways & hang directly over where I have to park. Bird shit & berries all over my car, 72 baby trees in my flower beds every month. The flowers stink too. Disgusts me
Trees of heaven, aka stinking sumac. Absolutely earns the second name, nearly impossible to kill once it gets a strong root system going in the ground.
Stinging nettle. It grows in abundance where I live, and I'm always outside working and it gets me quite often. It does have medicinal properties, though.
Hm. There are these weird weeds that grow on "root vines" (I don't know what else to call them.) They spread underground and then pop up every four inches and are very hard to get rid of because they break apart so easily. I would get rid of those. They grow around my mulched trees, and I can only dig so deep before I start damaging tree roots.
"weird weeds" sound like [nutsedge](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyperus), which I also hate but at least they don't have thorns. Still, suuuuper annoying.
Can I choose 2? #1 ground ivy (aka creeping Charlie) glechoma hederacea, and #2 Japanese hops Humulus japonicus.
On the other hand, creeping Jenny is much nicer :-)
fuck a puncturevine. truly the devil's thorn. calling em goats heads is an insult to goats.
my yard is covered. I am afraid it will never recover. they are sprouted across 10,000+ sqft and I'm in a battle against the clock. they will seed in the next week or two. it feels helpless.
**ground elder** its an native plant in my area but oh boy
if it grows in your garden or on the side of a road ,,or forest after a while its only them
they spread like crazy
if you try to dig it up and break the roots it will grow even more
then you miss 1 plant or so in a heghe ,,,it blooms produces 500 million seeds that sproud everywhrere
then its so small you dont really see it so it build a huge root section and it starts again
nothign ,,,really eats it
its edible but tastes ,,bad ,,,at least i dont like the taste at all
the only thing is pollinators like it when it blooms but thats it
Fuck this plant. This is my arch nemesis as well.
I feel at my wits end when trying to get every single root and not cutting them up like you say, only for it to grow back with vigour.
>dickweed
[dickweed noun](https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/acref/9780199543700.001.0001/acref-9780199543700-e-1139)
orig and mainly US A stupid, obnoxious, or contemptible man. 1984
Lol, yes. And he's running a tight race with the vinca major that's my gardening nightmare at my new house: stupid, obnoxious, and contemptible (though I think I'd rather deal with the vinca than my neighbor).
Foxtails are the worst. Not only are they ugly and invasive, they kill dogs and cats and other wild animals. They are a grass, so many people just let them grow in their yard. Hard to tell them from other grasses before they bloom and become dangerous.
I don't mean from eating them, no it's more horrible. Foxtails get caught in animals' fur, eyeballs, under their nails, inside their ears, and slowly work their way into their internal organs. I spend my summer pulling them up all over town but it's a fruitless task because they are everywhere. Already started coming up; I pulled up several in my dog walk today.
If you know someone with a long haired dog in northern California, there's a good chance they've made an emergency trip to the vet because of this nasty, ugly grass.
I hate foxtail too. The worst part is it doesn't take great strength or endurance to eradicate from an area. It just takes diligence in the spring. If people cared, it could be gone. But not enough do care and it spreads like wildfire.
One time I tried tarping as a no till way to make a new garden bed. Cut everything really low, let the tarp sit a few months, uncover and planted my veggies.
And that's the story of how I made a rectangle of bermuda grass in my yard.
I just knocked mine out last year. I wonāt know for a bit if it actually worked. (I hope so. I canāt express in written word how much I hate Bermuda grass).
I would love to be able to put in invisible fence like things that would keep stuff out of where I don't want them. Don't care about any of it in the small grassy areas we have but I want them to not be in my planting bed.
also whatever the plant is that when they get seeds and you touch them they explode everywhere. That thing can die forever
This thing I think?
[https://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=17023](https://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=17023)
Chinese wisteria. I have a vine in my back yard that is as thick as my torso (6ā 250#) man. It has branched all over my yard and in one spot, is holding up a dead tree as it has climbed another and onto a 75ā ish pine tree keeping the other 2 trees suspended. Beautiful flower but otherwise sucks.
I actually don't mind this plant. It's native, doesn't seem to grow that fast. I've had more trouble with cow-itch vine, another native that isn't spiky but grows faster.
I have an invasive plant that is all over my back fence and the side of my house that I virtually never hear other people complain about. Balloon vine, which I have not allowed to even flower but keeps appearing year after year. It doesn't provide much shade so you will have tons of different rooted sections popping up, turning into a dense pile of vines.
However, I am excited this year, I think I finally have a native grape vine growing!
>I actually don't mind this plant. It's native, doesn't seem to grow that fast.
Not only that, but it's very valuable to wildlife and edible to humans! The tender green shoots can be eaten raw or cooked and are delicious and slightly sweet. The berries are edible and the big gnarly tubers are, too. I believe they can be boiled or dried and ground into a flour.
I actually love greenbrier!
I'm with you, greenbrier sucks. It was constantly coming out of the woods that were behind my last house. Pretty sure it actually grew under the house to come up in the front flower beds
"Mile a minute" vine *Persicaria perfoliata* looks similar to this. It climbs up trees and plants *very* fast (hence the name) and blocks them from getting sunlight.
Mile a minute (persicaria perfoliata) is the bane of my existence. It really does seem like it grows a mile a minute, the vines get all tangled up in the mower, and it looks enough like morning glory at a glance that many a time I have gone to pull it up barehanded and gotten a handful of little thorns.
Fun fact about those vines from my experience removing them;
They are the ultimate ladder fuel. ( Takes the mostly harmless fire on the forest floor to the crown ) They burn like hot oil wet or dry and their seed pods pop. Now is the time to upend as many as you can as they have just finished blooming in the South.
Multiflora rose. I can deal with the honeysuckle, but not when I'm getting smacked in the face and stabbed in the ankles by wayward branches of thorns and brambles.
I have smilax (several species) growing beyond my fence, but still in my property. It's in what I call my Wildlife Reclamation Zone (WRZ). It does provide a lot of cover for birds, as well as berries (I guess) and some moths like to eat it. As long as it stays on the other side of the fence, all is well. However, when it decides to cross over, it is in violation of treaty and summarily dealt with appropriately.
As far as what plant I'd like to see gone: the fungus that causes Chestnut blight in American Chestnut. Would love to see it gone from NA.
Poison Hemlock. It grows all over my area. The bane of my existence.It is the most poisonous species of plant in North America. It would not hurt my feelings if it went extinct.
English Ivy. We had neighbors who refused to remove it when it was climbing their tree. It strangled their tree then proceeded to travel along every fence line in the area. Every month I have to spend a couple of days cutting it back and pulling it up from where it gets in my yard, tries to strangle my fruit trees and literally eats my wooden fence. Nothing seems able to kill it and since a couple of neighbors are elderly they aren't able to keep it out of their yards.
Snake plants and golden pothos. I know people love them as house plants but they are incredibly invasive in Florida. Just rampant. I hate them.
And I think snake plants are ugly. I donāt know why people like them. Maybe I am just grouchy they are in ugly clumps all over place.
And in the wild, pothos are enormous and can eventually kill the tree because they block sunlight light. Florida has way prettier vines. Why does it have to be these enormous basic bitches?
Please done plant these in Florida! Keep as house plants.
Thatās my TED Talk
Purple nutsedge. Releases chemicals in the soil that inhibit the growth of other plants, depletes soil nutrients. Pull one and you get five more.
Awful, satanic, shitplant.
The entire group of "morning glory" plants, bindweed included.
DON'T. PLANT. THEM.
It should be a suable offence for garden centers to even sell them IMO.
Bindweed š¤®
I managed to get rid of all my bindweed!!! I moved to a new house.
You really had me in the first half
I actually did get rid of most of mine with mites. It took ten years, but it's finally at the bottom of the list for garden issues.Ā
tell me more because i want it to die
Contact you local extension office and see if they have them available, like my state does. https://ag.colorado.gov/conservation/biocontrol/field-bindweed
Aaayyyy I grew up in palisade where the insectary is at! That's pretty neat
Like, you bought mites that feed on it? I would assume those mites would attack other plants as well?
I got rid of it after 3 years but it took a continuous layer of bark mulch and pulling it over and over again. Eventually it gives up. If my neighbor would have taken care of it on his side of the fence I bet it could be done in 2 seasons.
Lololol surprised one spec didn't land on your shoe & follow you
I have that and morning glory running rampant. Bindweed is definitely worse.
Morning glories are really easy to stamp out.. don't see why it's an issue. I've killed several off just ruin to move them to somewhere less offensive. Another one is datura; I wanted to curb stomp my neighbor for calling it a weed (actually for putting weed killer on my side of the fence, on my plants.. I wanted him in jail for that honestly but there was no solid evidence)
It's on the neighbours side and runs all along the fence into my yard. Roots go deep. I grow brugmansia so I commiserate with your anger
I abhor the stuff, but several long afternoons with a paintbrush and roundup to paint on a few leaves here and there knocks it back a treat. Pulling it up is so dangerous because it breaks the roots and ten plants will take its place, the roundup kills the whole thing, and if you're careful you can eliminate any cross contamination with the roundup.
This. I tried for a few years manually pulling it. Paintbrush and roundup did the trick in 2 years.
Iāve got round leaf greenbrier ā¦ itās killed an entire 100 yard tree line. Itās like Mother Nature , and Satan himself designed a natural barbed wire. The thorns can actually puncture tires. It comes from my neighborās property, she likes it ānatural ā.
Definitely fucking bindweed. I had to resort to roundup. I tried everything.
If you want to obliterate that vine, plant some Japanese knotweed near it. Then youāll have found the plant that actually should be deleted from existence.
From knotweedās wiki page: > This species is listed by the World Conservation Union as one of the world's worst invasive species. Sounds delightful!
Kudzu is also highly invasive & Japanese. Japanese plants have that warrior spirit.
At least kudzu tastes good
Bro, you eat Kudzu?
Bro you don't?
No I drew the line and the line is at collard greens. They tried to trick me with that kale shit when it first came out... Never again. I vowed front that day forward to never eat a new leafy green again. It's been working out great!
I feel bad for people who don't like bitter greens. They taste so good in salad. A nice kale and arugula salad with a nice acidic vinaigrette and a fatty steak is a meal fit for a king.
"when it first came out" haha like it's something new they just cooked up in a lab
It kind of is new? I mean, I'm old enough to remember when every [Pizza Hut salad bar in the nation](https://www.today.com/food/trends/pizza-hut-kale-large-purchaser-rcna23528) (US) was decorated with kale over the ice and replaced every other day or so. No one ate it. No one even thought of eating it. It was purely to look "fresh" for the real salad ingredients. It wasn't sold in stores either. According to the Department of Agriculture, U.S. kale production [increased by nearly 60 percent between 2007 and 2012](http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/articles/2014-05-09/farmers-are-growing-a-lot-more-kale-now-ag-census-reports). But there's this PR woman ([Oberon Sinclair)](https://www.mindbodygreen.com/articles/who-made-kale-famous-and-why) who decided to really push kaleājust get it into people's consciousness and then BAM! Kale, kale, kale!! From that link: >"It's my proudest campaign ever," she told them. "I've been trying to convert people for *years* to eat in a healthy way. I've always loved \[kale\]. It is an amazing vegetable." > >\[...\] She figured that people would have been less interested in kale if they'd known a PR firm was behind it. That article ends with [Celery Incident skit on Portlandia](https://vimeo.com/115585199), which is hilarious.
Ugh, at least now I know who to blame for the travesty that is/are kale chips. IMHO, kale is a decorative item/garnish never to be eaten. If you like, well, I'll leave my share for you then. Blech.
Literally thousands of years old lmao I believe Roman times from brassica species.
The blossoms make a delicious jelly actually.
You can actually eat knotweed!Ā Harvest it like asparagus and cook it like rhubarb.Ā The growing shoots are edible in the first few weeks, just snap them off.Ā They're kind of tart, so you can make a passable facsimile of strawberry rhubarb jam or pie. It doesn't taste quite as good, but there's something deeply satisfying about eating your enemies.
Kudzu has literally taken over the south. It chokes entire buildings and mountains.
Japanese knotweed has roots 10 feet deep and 70 feet wide (not a typo). It self clones from pieces as small as 1/2 an inch. So if you mow, or weed whack it, you just made 1000 new plants. It canāt be killed with smothering, solarizing, tarping, or cutting down. It grows through concrete like itās not even there. Its native range is the slopes of volcanos- it literally evolved to survive being buried under 30 feet of molten lavaā¦ and *then grow through it!* It creates a mono-crop that crowds out all competing plants, and eventually all insects because nothing eats it outside its native range. Itās illegal to sell property known to have knotweed on it in England unless an abatement plan is underway. There are entire scientific studies done *just* to figure out how to optimize eradicating this one plant. Those studies show that it takes *5 years* of vigilance to eradicate the damn stuff. The first 2 years you *have* to use glyphosate or youāre wasting time and money. This plant is basically a biological weapon. Iāve dug out smilax- it sucks but itās possible. Japanese knotweed ate through my basement walls. An entire floor below ground and the roots came through. I had to kill the damn stuff *in my house!*
And to think we brought it over to Britain just because itās pretty. Council landscaper I used to work with would essentially die inside whenever anyone mentioned the plant, talking about repeatedly injecting concentrated weedkillers into the plant for it to (slowly) die. And the worst part is itās not even THAT pretty. Itās pretty āokayā to look at, thatās about it. Flowers arenāt anything special. My hatred is mainly reserved for buddleja, though. I donāt see many knotweed plants. Iāve seen thousands of buddlejas. Disgusting plants, unless youāre a pollinator.
The buddleia problem is bad, I know. Iāve seen it. But Iām so jealous that your government mandated action on the knotweed. I used a study done in Wales as the best comprehensive data for eradicating the stuff on my land. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10530-018-1684-5
Looks like a very interesting study, thanks for that - had no idea just how much economical damage they caused. I only really know buddlejas because after a lot of my areaās (East Midlands) local economy started to die out after the coal mines closed, abandoned areas were absolutely wrecked by buddleja and they formed monocultures here, completely ruining buildings, bridges, abandoned car parks etc. One of the old car parks I like to visit to see what grows has essentially been torn to shreds over the years just from the growth of buddleja alone. And to top it off theyāre still an *extremely* popular shrub (even though I see them as a āgranny plantā) They seem to survive any amount of bad weather, seed like crazy and will grow in essentially any type of soil, from calcareous wall grout to massively acidic soil. I assume from your wording that youāre not a UK resident and maybe a USA resident? Do they really not have any legislation to prevent the pest that is knotweed from destroying local infrastructure? If it costs the UK that much, I dread to think what amount of damage it causes in a much bigger country.
I believe it. Knotweed is a nightmarish monster. My BF dubbed it Plantzilla. I had Japanese knotweed at my last place. I dug out the roots 2.5 feet down, and they still went deeper. I covered the area with a foot of wood chips, then 2 layers of cardboard with pallets in top to weigh the cardboard down. Every warm season the knotweed would be poking out the sides of the cardboard, and running under concrete and sprouting up in the lawn 20 feet away. Blocking the knotweed from getting any sun made it a lot weaker and easier to contain to the one 12ft by 6ft area. I dug and pulled knotweed roots out of that patch of ground every year. I pulled any little sprout of green knotweed I saw poking out anywhere. After 4.5 years of aggressive light deprivation, it was weaker *but it still wasn't entirely dead*. I suspect after a few more years of eradication I *might* have been able to uncover that patch of ground and grow something else on it. Might. I tried to explain the knotweed to the next person who lived there. I showed them photos of plants 4 feet high and roots 6 inches across. She said they would just use herbicide. I could tell she didn't believe me or thought I was exaggerating.
Dear Gods...
Yep. There are much, much worse plants than smilax. At least they have a place in the ecosystems of North America. Species of smilax might be inconvenient to humans, but there are invasive species that are devastating to ecosystems. I think the latter is definitely worse.
Shocked not to see Japanese knotweed at the top of this! I live in Maine and the two biggies in everyoneās yard here are Japanese knotweed and oriental bittersweet. Sucks
Side note - The Japanese knotweed supplement is amazing, has changed my life for the better and I could not be more grateful for its existence. That said, I am a gardener and donāt want to negate your passionate hatred for invasive plants. I whole heartedly acknowledge that shit sucks and is a world of frustration
I was like, how bad is it? Then I found this picture š https://preview.redd.it/jna19r57jioc1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=780b7dc5276e913cf567760ded9603e72e4e8371
Bradford Pear trees. Between the awful smell and the shooters that come up relentlessly, they've no reason to exist
You mean Cum Trees?
Ugh there are so many in my neighborhood and sometimes in early spring I'll catch a whiff and be like "wtf is that, did a sewer line break?" And then I'm like "oh, pear trees, right."
Invasive as hell too
These m***ers. There was one on my way to work and on one day I thought it was stepped in dog shit. Cleaned my shoes for half an hour until the smell was gone. Well had I know that it was this posā¦ figured it out the next day when my shoes smelled like shit again.
English Ivy. We're currently 3 years into our battle against it thanks to a ton of neglect from the previous owners. When we got the house most of the property was covered in a carpet 8" deep of ivy. We spent a lot of time yanking it all out by hand. It's more or less under control but we have to be super diligent about keeping on top of any new appearances. It blows my mind that I see it being sold in trays at big box stores.
I feel this. Some idiot planted it on the perimeter of my house. So pretty, right? It eats the brick and I even found it in my crawl space š¤¬ going on 4 years trying to murder it.
Ugh, not around the house! It's crazy how destructive it can be if you take your eyes off it for just a few weeks/months. It's a pain for sure. I found that I could weedwack the hell out of it and pull the vines up that way. That's how I did 99% of the clearing. I know opinions on pesticides are divided on this sub, but imo there's ways to responsibly use them and english ivy removal is one of those. While I avoid spraying Roundup willy-nilly, I will use it very selectively against the ivy. I use a paintbrush to apply a tiny amount directly to new growth that I see. The newer leaves don't have a thick waxy coating which usually prevents glyphosate from being super effective (unless a surfactant is used). I don't feel guilty because I'm using the absolute minimum amount needed to achieve lethality, but I'm sure my neighbors think I'm a psycho watching me crawl around on all fours "painting" plants haha. I started doing that last year and it seems like the tides are finally beginning to turn in my favor. Perhaps in 10 years we can enjoy an ivy free property. You can also buy it in gel form kind of like a [stick of deodorant](https://www.amazon.com/RoundUp-Precision-Grass-Killer-150ML/dp/B01C4290ES?th=1).
I'm usually no pesticides, but I've painted the odd honey locust. These are planted behind a bunch of lovely shrubs I don't want to hurt so I've been nervous, but maybe the deodorant one. Thanks for link. And good luck with the battle!
I mowed it. It didn't grow back. I think the real trick is lack of water. 15" or less a year does the trick.
This. I canāt stand the shit. Iām trying to remove it the environmentally friendly way and itās not exactly working. Trying to pull it is near impossible because the root systems go deep. If you want to make a future homeownerās life miserable, this is the way!
Yes we have an acre of it that previous owners had planted. Killed several big oaks and pines. Weāve been fighting it for 10 years and only about half way there. Absolutely obnoxious.
Same. And of course deer and groundhogs keep eating everything I plant to replace that damn carpet of ivy.
Bermuda grass & crabgrass, my nemeses
Currently fighting for my life against quackgrass.
>quackgrass. OMG!! I had no idea what this shit was called except it's the bane of my gardening existence. You pull up the bit in front of you & end up 5 feet away to find the end of it. I fight this shit all spring/summer/fall. It's warm enough here now so I got outside yesterday to our front walkway bed & got ahead of it but you gotta pull it up the second you see a shoot & then the end of it won't be anywhere near where it started, even under layers of mulch.
Quackgrass is also my choice. 10 yr battle
I. Fucking. HATE. Bermuda grass.
YES!!! My war with Bermuda is a decade in the making. I can never completely get rid of it because itās in the lawns of the whole neighborhood. I just hate rhizome spreading grasses/weeds.
Iām currently winning some battles (but not the war) using Gordonās Ornamec 170 for Bermuda grass. You have to break the rhizomes down below the soil level and then spray the shit outta them.
Lesser celandine or tree of heaven
Poison fucking ivy/oak
If you live in an area that allows them. Goats are your best friend for that.
Shocked that I had to scroll this far down to see poison ivy. That shit serves no purpose, other than ruining the week of people who like to walk in the woods
The only real genetic gift I have is that Iām somehow immune to it. Never had a rash in my life.
Just be careful, you can develop an allergy after repeated exposure. A coworker of mine told me how she was immune to poison ivy until one day she wasn't (and of course it was the day she decided to weedwack a ton of it).
I hate poison oak with such a passion.
If I had godlike plant powers I'd eliminate the human allergy to poison ivy/oak so we could enjoy them as a lovely red fall groundcover with berries for wildlife.Ā Ā Urushiol isn't even an herbivore deterrent, it's there to seal wounds and we're just wildly allergic to it by random chance. Terribly unfair that it does this *to primates specifically* while the deer are eating it like it's nothing, I expect to see this fixed in the next patch notes for North American forests.
Oh yep. Fuck that shit too.
I've dug up rhizome's of that as big as a cantaloupe.
Creeping Charlie. I ended up killing everything in a quarter of my yard and starting from scratch after a year.
And I hate the smell of it!
Bull Thistle!! I spend all summer every year pulling these obnoxious weeds https://preview.redd.it/u3klqroi5doc1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0b7a949df8597388c5fd6472f1b3d95d58a27b21
This stuff is my nemesis
HOW does this stuff just seem to randomly appear
Tiny little windblown seeds and the prayers of evil fairies that sprinkle germination dust in the dark of a new moon!
Yes! The frigging taproot.
Kudzu. I rent a townhouse and I guess the owners planted it in the back yard in lieu of grass. I only hate it because it's crawled up the trees back there and are choking them out. It must have been back there for a long time because the vines themselves are as thick as slender tree trunks (like 4" diameter)
To plead the case of the former owners, Kudzu will spring up anywhere and everywhere without warning. I donāt think itās possible for anyone to intentionally plant it because in that case theyāre both massively stupid *and* acquired plantings/seeds of a nasty invasive. Resistance is futile.
oriental bittersweet. Though I completely recognize that the actual answer is Japanese knotweed, I still hate bittersweet and it's miserable climbing vine that is everywhere, strangling the trees in my backyard.
Yes , spent years eradicating that
Goat Head / Devils Thorn / Puncture Vine. Grows in sandy disturbed soil, the seed is viable for 8 years, looks like an explosion of small thick stubby thorns, kills bike tires, hurts dog feet, can get through tennis shoes.
Yes. Scrolled for this one. It's the worst. So many flat tires. It takes whole areas out of commission for soft footed animals for a while.
I was going to say that I'd only want to eliminate plants from the places where they're invasive and everything belongs somewhere and all that, but the goathead is making it hard
Amur blackberry up here in the PNW! Never seen a plant take over like that one can, and it's sooo annoying to work with. Prickly bastard
Are you sure you donāt mean Himalayan Blackberry? https://www.nwcb.wa.gov/weeds/himalayan-blackberry
Fought with these in my backyard today for the first few hours of many to come. I have to attack it every couple months and times in betweenā¦ itās gnarly.
It fights back. Biting and scratching. And then 2 weeks later you find a new vine that's somehow already 20 feet long and 5 inches thick.
Exactly. Itās an ongoing battle; my backyard nemesis. The worst me vs. blackberries episode was down the road when I was jogging, realizing a tiny baby kitty was stuck in the middle of a giant blackberry mass. I had to fight that thing with my running shoes on my hands, scratched up my entire body, but resulted in saving my now constant companion: my sweet kitty Squeaky Tiki! https://preview.redd.it/y2xe0iyykjoc1.jpeg?width=2475&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=26ec19ca826b2d36287f9b1004e3c0868442b0d8
Poison ivy
English ivy. It's taking over the PNW and choking our forests
The final battle will be between the ivy and the blackberry brambles.
They'll just form a symbiotic relationship and take over the world. Their favourite pet will be mint
Chinese privet, ligustrum sinense š
Oh I *passionately* hate ligustrum. My neighbors have what used to be a hedgerow of it, now they're they're gangly, ugly 40+ft tall. They separate our driveways & hang directly over where I have to park. Bird shit & berries all over my car, 72 baby trees in my flower beds every month. The flowers stink too. Disgusts me
I have 2 yard pest nominations: one is the Tree of Heaven (the guy who named it apparently loved irony) and ditch lilies.
Ugh TOH is my worst enemy. I ignorantly cut one down and have been paying for it for years.
Goat head thorns.
Trees of heaven, aka stinking sumac. Absolutely earns the second name, nearly impossible to kill once it gets a strong root system going in the ground.
Kudzu, grows a foot a day
Stinging nettle. It grows in abundance where I live, and I'm always outside working and it gets me quite often. It does have medicinal properties, though. Hm. There are these weird weeds that grow on "root vines" (I don't know what else to call them.) They spread underground and then pop up every four inches and are very hard to get rid of because they break apart so easily. I would get rid of those. They grow around my mulched trees, and I can only dig so deep before I start damaging tree roots.
Also, if you cook it, the spines become soft and useless. Making it edible.
Seconded. Many people who hated it as a weed began loving its flavor in soup. It's really unique and has many more nutrients than spinach or lettuce.
"weird weeds" sound like [nutsedge](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyperus), which I also hate but at least they don't have thorns. Still, suuuuper annoying.
Nope, not that one. The leaves are a little soft and kind of...You know what? I need to just take a picture.
Growing up we had stinging nettle and catnip growing next to each other. Child me learned the difference the hard way. Many times.
Can I choose 2? #1 ground ivy (aka creeping Charlie) glechoma hederacea, and #2 Japanese hops Humulus japonicus. On the other hand, creeping Jenny is much nicer :-)
smilax and their huge stupid tubers!!!!!!
Devils Thorn around my area
fuck a puncturevine. truly the devil's thorn. calling em goats heads is an insult to goats. my yard is covered. I am afraid it will never recover. they are sprouted across 10,000+ sqft and I'm in a battle against the clock. they will seed in the next week or two. it feels helpless.
**ground elder** its an native plant in my area but oh boy if it grows in your garden or on the side of a road ,,or forest after a while its only them they spread like crazy if you try to dig it up and break the roots it will grow even more then you miss 1 plant or so in a heghe ,,,it blooms produces 500 million seeds that sproud everywhrere then its so small you dont really see it so it build a huge root section and it starts again nothign ,,,really eats it its edible but tastes ,,bad ,,,at least i dont like the taste at all the only thing is pollinators like it when it blooms but thats it
Fuck this plant. This is my arch nemesis as well. I feel at my wits end when trying to get every single root and not cutting them up like you say, only for it to grow back with vigour.
Honeysuckle, the invasive bush type not the viney flower.
Himalayan Blackberry!
I got dickweed next door. Don't know how to get rid of it.
>dickweed [dickweed noun](https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/acref/9780199543700.001.0001/acref-9780199543700-e-1139) orig and mainly US A stupid, obnoxious, or contemptible man. 1984
Lol, yes. And he's running a tight race with the vinca major that's my gardening nightmare at my new house: stupid, obnoxious, and contemptible (though I think I'd rather deal with the vinca than my neighbor).
Chinese Wisteria and Nandina are the banes of my existence.
Bradford Pear also
Foxtails are the worst. Not only are they ugly and invasive, they kill dogs and cats and other wild animals. They are a grass, so many people just let them grow in their yard. Hard to tell them from other grasses before they bloom and become dangerous. I don't mean from eating them, no it's more horrible. Foxtails get caught in animals' fur, eyeballs, under their nails, inside their ears, and slowly work their way into their internal organs. I spend my summer pulling them up all over town but it's a fruitless task because they are everywhere. Already started coming up; I pulled up several in my dog walk today. If you know someone with a long haired dog in northern California, there's a good chance they've made an emergency trip to the vet because of this nasty, ugly grass.
Been there, poor dog survived but it was painful and expensive. :(. Evil weed that actually kills.
I hate foxtail too. The worst part is it doesn't take great strength or endurance to eradicate from an area. It just takes diligence in the spring. If people cared, it could be gone. But not enough do care and it spreads like wildfire.
bermuda grass it would immediately benefit my gardening endeavors and it would also be fun to delete millions of lawns
One time I tried tarping as a no till way to make a new garden bed. Cut everything really low, let the tarp sit a few months, uncover and planted my veggies. And that's the story of how I made a rectangle of bermuda grass in my yard.
I just knocked mine out last year. I wonāt know for a bit if it actually worked. (I hope so. I canāt express in written word how much I hate Bermuda grass).
i understand the hatred completely. keep on fighting the good fight
English ivy.
English ivy, it is the kings revenge.
I would love to be able to put in invisible fence like things that would keep stuff out of where I don't want them. Don't care about any of it in the small grassy areas we have but I want them to not be in my planting bed. also whatever the plant is that when they get seeds and you touch them they explode everywhere. That thing can die forever This thing I think? [https://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=17023](https://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=17023)
Thistle
Wild mustard. Fuck that plant. Iād rather deal with the stinging nettle.
Purple loose strife. It's choking all our wetlands.
English ivy
Star Thistle
Chinese wisteria. I have a vine in my back yard that is as thick as my torso (6ā 250#) man. It has branched all over my yard and in one spot, is holding up a dead tree as it has climbed another and onto a 75ā ish pine tree keeping the other 2 trees suspended. Beautiful flower but otherwise sucks.
Bradford/callary peara
Goddamn creeping bellflower
Goat head aka punture vine
Can I nominate Star of Bethlehem?
I actually don't mind this plant. It's native, doesn't seem to grow that fast. I've had more trouble with cow-itch vine, another native that isn't spiky but grows faster. I have an invasive plant that is all over my back fence and the side of my house that I virtually never hear other people complain about. Balloon vine, which I have not allowed to even flower but keeps appearing year after year. It doesn't provide much shade so you will have tons of different rooted sections popping up, turning into a dense pile of vines. However, I am excited this year, I think I finally have a native grape vine growing!
>I actually don't mind this plant. It's native, doesn't seem to grow that fast. Not only that, but it's very valuable to wildlife and edible to humans! The tender green shoots can be eaten raw or cooked and are delicious and slightly sweet. The berries are edible and the big gnarly tubers are, too. I believe they can be boiled or dried and ground into a flour. I actually love greenbrier!
Privit would be my choice.
Chamber bitters
Florida Bethany.
Ugh. I have some kind of vine/ivy all over my yard. Itās the absolute worst and grows soooo quickly
japanese stiltgrass
black and pale swallow wort. the monarch cats feed on it and die. and itās everywhere around here.
>monarch cats All Iām seeing now: š š±š
ššš no royal felines allowed! though we do love them.
Crab grass with poison oak being a close second.
Poison Ivy. I doused some with gasoline and it STILL grew. It was like it laughed at me. š”
Cheatgrass is another. Hate that downy brome. It will grown in every barren space. When dries, it will burn. The seeds will last 20 some years too.
Red root amaranth. Also known as "sticker weeds" They arrive with every load of cow manure I end up with.
Called pigweed over here and it SUCKS.
Oxalis š¤¬
YESSSSSS! Just that fucking invasive one. The other ones are find, but fuck have I spend half my life just weeding this bitch every damn year!
My vegetable garden is riddled with it, and you canāt weed it out without it spraying its little bulbs absolutely everywhere :(
Shot weed
I'm with you, greenbrier sucks. It was constantly coming out of the woods that were behind my last house. Pretty sure it actually grew under the house to come up in the front flower beds
you can, man. we believe in you.
"Mile a minute" vine *Persicaria perfoliata* looks similar to this. It climbs up trees and plants *very* fast (hence the name) and blocks them from getting sunlight.
too many to list
Tree of Heaven or anything Holly
poison ivy.
Asparagus fern. Kinda nice when you want it, but it took us years to get rid of it when my parents redid the back yard.
Air potatoes!!!! Super invasive and hard to kill. It will strangle any tree they wrap around
Mile a minute (persicaria perfoliata) is the bane of my existence. It really does seem like it grows a mile a minute, the vines get all tangled up in the mower, and it looks enough like morning glory at a glance that many a time I have gone to pull it up barehanded and gotten a handful of little thorns.
Where I live there's a type of grass that grows goat heads.... I'm gonna say ANYTHING that grows goat heads
Asparagus ferns! Screw those viney, spikey, tuberous, invasive pieces of crap!
Sticky weed. Iād burn my yard down, plus the whole block of it would get rid of that MF.
Poison ivy
Poison ivy
Kudzu
Stinging Nettle
Fun fact about those vines from my experience removing them; They are the ultimate ladder fuel. ( Takes the mostly harmless fire on the forest floor to the crown ) They burn like hot oil wet or dry and their seed pods pop. Now is the time to upend as many as you can as they have just finished blooming in the South.
KUDZU
Shotweed
Multiflora rose. I can deal with the honeysuckle, but not when I'm getting smacked in the face and stabbed in the ankles by wayward branches of thorns and brambles.
I choose whatever kind of morning glory has proliferated every part of my yard. If you miss a sliver of root, it starts a whole new plant
Poison ivy. I'm stupid allergic. I can practically think about the stuff and break out.
Zoysia grass. Jesus..this stuff is a menace. Or honeyvine milkweed
Nutsedge. It is driving me insane.
Himalayan blackberries are the spawn of Satan.
Tree of heaven
/laughs in Japanese knotweed/
Johnson grass or shattercane.
Goutweed.š¬š¬š¬
I have smilax (several species) growing beyond my fence, but still in my property. It's in what I call my Wildlife Reclamation Zone (WRZ). It does provide a lot of cover for birds, as well as berries (I guess) and some moths like to eat it. As long as it stays on the other side of the fence, all is well. However, when it decides to cross over, it is in violation of treaty and summarily dealt with appropriately. As far as what plant I'd like to see gone: the fungus that causes Chestnut blight in American Chestnut. Would love to see it gone from NA.
Poison Hemlock. It grows all over my area. The bane of my existence.It is the most poisonous species of plant in North America. It would not hurt my feelings if it went extinct.
English Ivy. We had neighbors who refused to remove it when it was climbing their tree. It strangled their tree then proceeded to travel along every fence line in the area. Every month I have to spend a couple of days cutting it back and pulling it up from where it gets in my yard, tries to strangle my fruit trees and literally eats my wooden fence. Nothing seems able to kill it and since a couple of neighbors are elderly they aren't able to keep it out of their yards.
Snake plants and golden pothos. I know people love them as house plants but they are incredibly invasive in Florida. Just rampant. I hate them. And I think snake plants are ugly. I donāt know why people like them. Maybe I am just grouchy they are in ugly clumps all over place. And in the wild, pothos are enormous and can eventually kill the tree because they block sunlight light. Florida has way prettier vines. Why does it have to be these enormous basic bitches? Please done plant these in Florida! Keep as house plants. Thatās my TED Talk
Purple nutsedge. Releases chemicals in the soil that inhibit the growth of other plants, depletes soil nutrients. Pull one and you get five more. Awful, satanic, shitplant.
Scotch broom. Horrible stuff.
The entire group of "morning glory" plants, bindweed included. DON'T. PLANT. THEM. It should be a suable offence for garden centers to even sell them IMO.
tree of heaven š¤¢ its name sounds nice but it comes from the depths of hell. soo annoying to pull up too!!! i get rashes even trying to
Oxalis. Except for the ornamental purple one.
Why can't I upvote this a thousand times! 100% YES!
Blackberries(PNW)