You see them in the garden centre or by the roadside looking quite benign with their pretty blooms and unusual foliage but don’t be fooled as some of the plants we come across can be extremely invasive and that’s bad news for your garden and for our wider environment.
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00:08 So I'm going to show you here today is some Japanese animal which I planted in the ground about, well, maybe 12 years ago now.
00:19 And a few years later I tried to pull it out and it's just spread everywhere and I'm still digging on, still getting parts of it here.
00:30 I can just show you, didn't get the root. Let's see.
00:38 This is it here and it just keeps growing and growing and I'm still digging parts of it up.
00:49 Trying to get the roots out too, along with these flagstones here.
00:53 You can see there's so much of it.
01:02 There's some in the back here too which I'm going to be digging up again later on.
01:09 I'm hoping it will die back eventually.
01:17 I can't get that root out either.
01:25 If I don't let it go to seed it should be out of here in a few years. This part of the garden is very overgrown.
01:34 That should all change in the next few weeks when I get it all dug up.
01:41 Just waiting for the ground to dry out a bit first.
01:45 There's another part.
01:48 And this is where it was planted up round here. It took over this entire section of the garden so most of it is out.
01:55 But this is just a heap of mostly compost with grass growing over it.
02:01 And then it will all be cleared and levelled out, ready for planting other things in.
02:12 You can see here too there's some blackberry that is spreading from outside the garden.
02:23 So just be careful what you plant.
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