Sweet William Is Not Sweet

It's pretty, right? And you're thinking it would look nice in that bare patch in your garden.

Wrong.

It' goes by two names, Sweet William and cornflower.

Unless you have several acres just begging to be filled, stay away from this little dude.

See, it isn't just one--it's a gazillion before you know it.

I guess I was having one of my senior moments when I bought it at a year-end nursery sale.

Now it's en every section of my garden and believe me, every bit of that ground is already spoken for.

Every morning I try hauling out a batch by their roots and that's hard when we've been short of rain and they don't want to cooperate.

Don't say I didn't warn you.