On 4/8/06 08:03, in article ,
"Charlie Pridham" wrote:

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I got my infestations trying to be kind to the Humming bird hawk moths which
lay there eggs on it! down here its mostly called cleavers although I grew
up calling it goose grass, a lot of books refer to it as bedstraw so that
presumably is another use for it

Didn't know that about the Humming Bird Hawk Moth, Charlie, so thank you.
We have had those here for a couple of years and they seem to like feeding
on the Salvia involucrata, particularly. I'll look a little more kindly on
the cleavers now. I pulled literally yards of it out of the hedge between
us and the churchyard but I'm quite sure there's plenty more where that came
from! And I don't know about anyone else but this is a bumper year for
Convolvulus in our garden. It's become a sort of obsession with me to pull
it up wherever and whenever I can.

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