Houttuynia cordata...... Also known as fish mint, fish leaf, rainbow
plant, chameleon plant, heart leaf, fish wort, Chinese lizard tail, or
bishop's weed.
Thank You! The invasive thug bit I'd figured out 🙄. It's growing up behind a huge raised planter on the border with a neighbour. (In between the planter and a concrete fence base so completely impossible to get to it to dig it out and there is only ever a couple of stems which come through each year as I keep trying to pull it out. I garden organically but am considering reaching for a weedkiller for this one. Any suggestions on other measures I could try first?
I inherited some when I bought my house and quickly realised it was horribly invasive. I spent 2 years trying everything I could think of to get rid of it and nothing worked. I dug out the entire raised bed it was in and sifted through the soil THREE times but it just kept coming back. It was the bane of my existence. I decided to try and live with it but this year it has started spreading into my lawn so I’ve started to spray it with weed killer. I don’t like using it either but unfortunately, that’s all I have found that kills it.
Ive now looked it up and can't believe it's something you can purchase!!!!!!! How awful.
Thanks for sharing your experience - weed killer it might have to be then, at least it is only a tiny space between the planter and the concrete fence base. Hopefully it won't upset anything else in the garden.
Lisawebb47
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An invasive thug.
Thanks for sharing your experience -
weed killer it might have to be then, at least it is only a tiny space between the planter and the concrete fence base. Hopefully it won't upset anything else in the garden.