The offending plant has now been trimmed within an inch of its life.
While the front of my villa is quite nice and leafy, it’s ill-disciplined, overgrown and overrun with plants and trees which haven’t been touched for almost a year and the weeds are beginning to have the run of the place.
I almost filled a green otto bin with the branches I cut off this daisy plant.
A very therapeutic morning activity!
Ahh... Serenity 
Sounds good. In my case one tree down, about 20 to go!
I’ve done most of my weeding and pruning over 2 weekends. I’ve still got one more lot to do.