A friend gave me a few of these plants from her garden before she moved back to the states. I soon grew to rue the day I planted them as within a year they had started to take over my garden. They formed borders around the gazebo and the back wall and the studio, but soon they started to spread to potted plants and every single inch of the yard where they could find a foothold, so . . . .(Click on first photo and then each in sequence to read the rest of the story.)

At first I reached to pull this one out of the pot,

but when I did, I noticed something I hadn’t noticed before.

They actually had mildly interesting little blooms–

very austere,

This will give you an idea of how tiny they are, and how it pays to look closer, sometimes, to even your annoyances.