Jungle fever
Convolvulus, agapanthus, oxalis, montbretia, legislation. There is no odd one out. Whatever you do to try to control them, they only ever get mightier.
The Resource Management Act (RMA) truly takes the Old Man’s Beard prize for invasive insistence. It started offat 500 pages in 1991, and is now 800 feared, loathed and legal-fee-generating pages long. For its next big push, it’s going to become three Acts of Parliament instead of one.
You know what happens when you try to rip out shouty, orange montbretia: a chain of big, fat bulbs goes on the weed heap, but a few dozen bulblets are still
