How do I get rid of it and hopefully stop it coming back please? The house
next door is vacant and it has spread under the fence to my property.

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Rocket wrote:
:: How do I get rid of it and hopefully stop it coming back please? The
:: house next door is vacant and it has spread under the fence to my
:: property.
::
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:: Rocket
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Read the thread below entitled, 'Horsetail on Allotment'

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Rocket wrote:
:: How do I get rid of it and hopefully stop it coming back please? The
:: house next door is vacant and it has spread under the fence to my
:: property.
::
:: --
:: Rocket
:: =====

Read the thread below entitled, 'Horsetail on Allotment'

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Thank you kindly. I was unaware it went under other names.

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/mare's tail/

Thank you kindly. I was unaware it went under other names.

Properly, it is horsetail, though locally it is often called 'mare's
tail'. (We've had all this before!)

Mare's tail proper is Hippuris vulgaris, and is a still or
slow-moving-water plant

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In article ,
Jaques d'Alltrades wrote:
The message
from "Rocket" contains these words:

/mare's tail/

Thank you kindly. I was unaware it went under other names.

Properly, it is horsetail, though locally it is often called 'mare's
tail'. (We've had all this before!)

We have, so PLEASE don't say that the name "horsetail" is any more
"proper" than "mare's tail". The former is merely the most common
of the common names for it - there really isn't any difference in
the use between "harebell" and "bluebell" for Campanula rotundifolia.

Mare's tail proper is Hippuris vulgaris, and is a still or
slow-moving-water plant

It's certainly rarely called horsetail :-)


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

"Nick Maclaren" wrote in message
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In article ,
Jaques d'Alltrades wrote:
The message
from "Rocket" contains these words:

/mare's tail/

Thank you kindly. I was unaware it went under other names.

Properly, it is horsetail, though locally it is often called 'mare's
tail'. (We've had all this before!)

We have, so PLEASE don't say that the name "horsetail" is any more
"proper" than "mare's tail". The former is merely the most common
of the common names for it - there really isn't any difference in
the use between "harebell" and "bluebell" for Campanula rotundifolia.

Mare's tail proper is Hippuris vulgaris, and is a still or
slow-moving-water plant
~~~~~~~~~~#
And is a nut producing flowering plant. More closely related to Chestnuts
or any other FP. Brian.

It's certainly rarely called horsetail :-)
~~~~~~~~~~
Middle ages there was confusion and Mare's-tail was so called as it
looked a more feminine variety. Brian.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

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Mare's tail proper is Hippuris vulgaris, and is a still or
slow-moving-water plant
~~~~~~~~~~#
And is a nut producing flowering plant. More closely related to Chestnuts
or any other FP.

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In message , Brian
writes
Mare's tail proper is Hippuris vulgaris, and is a still or
slow-moving-water plant
~~~~~~~~~~#
And is a nut producing flowering plant. More closely related to
Chestnuts or any other FP. Brian.

Hippuris belongs to Haloragaceae, which is one of a group of families
related to Crassulaceae (stonecrops, houseleeks, etc), and is part of
the Saxifragales order, which is one of the major lineages of the core
eudicots (with rosids, asterids, Caryophyllales and some smaller
groups); the sweet, horse and water chestnuts belong to different
branches of the rosids, respectively being closish to oaks, maples and
(purple) loosestrifes.
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