The Auckland Regional Council is seeking public views on adding 51 plants to the list of those that cannot legally be sold, including agapanthus, bangalow and phoenix palms and english ivy.

To those gardeners who wrote earlier on my 5 most hated plants that agapanthus would certainly be on their list, this is probably comforting news. But to gardeners seeing any plant listed as a weed would be devastating, especially if you had a few in your garden.

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