Invasive ground cover plants are the uninvited garden guests that never want to leave. They take root and squat determinedly in your beds, spreading outwards and enveloping your other flowers or running rampant over your lawn. In some cases, these pernicious intruders can even threaten the structure of your house.
When it comes to some of the hardest invasive plants to get rid of, my particular bête noire (or should that be bête vert?) is bindweed, also known as Convolvulus arvensis, which winds its way around plants and bushes and up the trellis on my fences. Some may like its white, trumpet-shaped flowers, but I see them overwhelming the carefully selected and purposefully planted contents of my garden beds.
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