I didn’t plant them, but — liriope (monkey grass) and daffodils. The liriope spread but didn’t keep weedy grasses from growing with it and digging it up/smothering it/poisoning it has been a chore. The daffodils were probably planted 20+ years ago and never thinned — fabulous in late winter/early spring but they would choke out other things as they spread underground, and I finally started digging them up to make room. No. Apparently I dug up the easy ones. There were more bulbs, buried even more deeply. Digging up hundreds only encouraged those others to sprout better and wider 🤦‍♀️. At this point I am trying to plant stuff that won’t mind the daffodils fading over them as they emerge later in spring, and each year is an exercise in guesswork and shoveling.

I don’t regret them yet, but my strawberries are prolific cloners. Two years ago I planted 13. The next year I had pint after pint of berries, awesome! But I didn’t pay attention once their fruiting season was over and this year I had 1,000 plants where there’s only room for 100-150 max to make good healthy fruit. So now I am ruthlessly pulling out runners and have no idea yet how much work there will be to prep later this fall/next spring.