When I first learned of it, I had one that I had just planted in my front yard. Beautiful dark purple variety, "Black Knight", or something.

Then, the very day after it went in the ground, aequitaslevitas and I volunteered at the LGNC the first time.

We ripped one Japanese barberry out of the ground and maybe one or two hundred butterfly bushes...

Boy, did I feel guilty when I got home and looked at that one I had just planted.

When we had a cookout a few years after that, it got trampled during a football or baseball toss, and that was that...

I feel much less guilty now. =)