Would you avoid planting a variety you heard is banned in some places?

If they are non-native species to your area and are known to cause problems, why do it? You might be able to control them on your property but wind, birds, and other animals will pick up the seeds and spread them to your neighbor’s.
Let me know when you have the mary jane plot put in. I’ll help with the harvest.

If there’s a good reason for not planting something, I won’t.

No I most certainly wouldn’t.
However privet hedges are quite common in the UK, and many people use these as a screen. They are kept in check by regular pruning.

I don’t think I would do that.

Want a few sprigs of kudzu ?
How bad can it be?

Scary , very scary

@worriedguy That’s the plant I was thinking of. I lived in Atlanta for two years. It’s a constant battle to keep everything from being covered in that stuff.

@worriedguy I actually did ask a friend of mine for some kudzu to plant on my hillside property in Southern California. I probably would have been arrested if I had done.

Yes, I’d avoid it. Ha ha about Kudzu, that’s what you turn loose in the yard of your worst enemy or if you’d like to see a business fail.

That kudzu is frickin’ everywhere down here. People plant it on purpose to make their gazebos look like the back wall of Wrigley Field – and it only takes a few weeks, and then it’s finding its way to the power lines… pain in the arse, to be sure.