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Glyphosate
In message , Sacha
writes Looks like a white bluebell and smells strongly when crushed. Allium triquetum I think. As I said, I'm working from memory here. Very frustrating :-) Aka Ransoms or wild garlic. Dig it up or spray it seems to be the only way. I rather like it so when I had it in a previous garden, I always kept some of it. But it absolutely fills the verges of some of the lanes round here. I don't think that it will be Ransoms (Allium ursinum) as the flowers although white are not like those of a blue bell - have a look here http://www.ukwildflowers.com/Web_pag...um_ramsons.htm The Ransoms which abound in the adjacent wood and in our front shrub border (despite annual applications of glyphosate for the last eight years) do not need crushing to release their 'perfume' it is just omnipresent. I love wildflowers and try to promote their use in our garden and, whenever I get the opportunity, elsewhere, but Ransoms most definitely comes under the heading of invasive. The probable alternative is Three cornered leek/garlic (A. triquetrum) as indicated above. A non-native plant which I have noticed is present in quite large drifts at the sides of a local road but has not yet reached here. -- Robert |
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