What plants in your garden have turned out to be major thugs? For me it is chasmanthe and vinca, both of which came with the house and neither of which have I been able to eradicate.

Ditto, chasmanthe and vinca....at least the chasmanthe is favored by the hummers and the vinca really was not too much bother in pulling. When we moved up here, I noticed several stands of what looked to be chasmanthe in bud, but fortunately turned out to be a 'nice' orange crocosmia. I have different nuisances here than I'd encountered before...ranunculus repens, for one...another, what I think is Ox-eye Daisy, lots of rampant growers, but I'm leaving large areas (for my tiny yard)as wild meadow and I will let these grow to a certain extent.

bermuda grass!

One of the greatest joys in my life is that there is no Bermuda grass here.

Oh, yes, I forgot about the Bermuda grass. That came with the house, too. Our yard could be nuclear ground zero and the Bermuda grass would come back.

Another trouble maker is ash tree seedlings, and we don't even have an ash tree and neither do the next-door neighbors.

Oh...well, yes...we did have an ash tree on just the other side of the property line. I loved it, then we noticed that at some point (this was on a several acre piece of grove property) someone had taken an axe to it, but it remained, tall and strong. Once I started watering our property, I found the zillion seedlings coming up in the beds around the ash....I compounded the problem by letting some of them grow...lol..they did self-plant in spots where another would look nice. After we'd been there 17 years, we had some really nice ash trees.....lol..beautiful, tough and strong, turning a multitide of yellows in the fall.....and a gazillion seedlings. We sold the property over a year ago and I think the new owner is not one really big on watering, so they may be more 'controlled' now....

I did appreciate that the trees fed a lot of birds with their seeds all over beneath the first tree...probably carried the seeds waaay away to your house, kelli....

Oxalis, always present. Cute in a way but they just multiply fast. Wish the slugs and snails will favor them first over my other plants.

Oxalis...on a larger, wild property you learn to not sweat the small stuff...and appreciate the yellow....

Each "thug" has their role..just don't like them in my containers.

Yes...I even liked the large stands of chasmanthes when they were flowering in Winter....

I leave the other oxalis in my back flower bed. It's the creeping oxalis that loves to grow in the lawn, and seems to come free in every nursery pot that I hate.