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Mystery weed
Any ideas what this is? Seems to have appeared on a freshly (last year) cleared slope. Large leaves, some are 10" across and it's quick spreading.
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Petastites? (Butterbur)
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You seem to be spot on, thanks! Just checked Google images and there are some that are bear a clear resemblance.
Benign or baddy? I don't really like the way it shades out the ground it covers with overlapping leaves and feel if I don't at least contain it then the current diversity of weeds will suffer. This is a wild slope below my garden that's part of an extensive and happily undeveloped area that's scrubbed and wooded over. I removed a lot of Clematis and dead bramble brash in the immediate vicinity and I'm now happy to let volunteers appear. I don't want to preclude a natural plant from it's chosen environment but it's a bit keen. May just bash it back a bit each season. |
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John Grimshaw's Garden Diary: Petasites japonicus
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Mystery weed
In article , mogga
writes You don't know anything that smells like sour cherry drops? Or one that tastes of Lindt chocolate (she says hopefully) I have some seed from jekka McVicar of mustard that tastes (the plant) exactly like new potatoes It's called Red Frills -- Janet Tweedy Dalmatian Telegraph http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk |
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Yes that's another name for Petastites.
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I was driving down to Newquay recently for work and really enjoyed the great banks of Foxgloves you have. Stunning colour. |
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Mystery weed
"Slopegardener" wrote in message ... kay;927230 Wrote: Like you, I'd be inclined to leave, but I've never tried removing it so I've no idea how difficult it is to keep in bounds. I can remember seeing a stately home garden with bank with cascading stream , and a large proportion of the bank covered with its bigger and more aggressive cousin Petastites japonicus - interesting article about t hat species he 'John Grimshaw's Garden Diary: Petasites japonicus' (http://tinyurl.com/68carla) I shied away from weedkilling it as the leaves are in, under, and over so much else until they dominate and I don't want a scorched earth policy. As the conspicuous leaves are easy to pop off I'll just do that either until maybe it discourages spread are simply in perpetuity. You can clear square meters in minutes. Frost might knock the colony back so really it's a wait and see thing. I've planted hawthorn, blackthorn, holly, yews, a couple of Spanish gorse and wild rose along with the ever present brambles and nettles, so bigger competition will eventually limit it also. I do not contribute all that much to this newsgroup but I do learn a great deal :-) I have a bank down one side of the drive and would like to cover it with wild plants, some would call them weeds but not me/us. I have comfrey going well all over the place and use it to make liquid plant feed, but this thread has given me some more ideas, 3 cheers for uk.rec.gardening :-) kate |
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