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"Jake" wrote in message ... On Mon, 16 Jul 2012 13:05:54 +0100, "Sue" wrote: Good grief. Can planners just insist that any ridiculous thing they like is written into the deeds of a house? It's one thing to insist that a replacement sapling would be planted by the householder if some special tree dies, but a 25 yr old sized one?! What planners do is attach a landscaping plan to the planning consent when an estate is built and write in conditions to ensure that the landscape "matures". AFAIK, the 25 year bit is because they can't insist on longer for some strange reason. Then the developer writes any necessary conditions into deeds for individual plots. I just happen to have this tree. I think there are about 9 other plots on the development with similar conditions. And I have much dafter things in the deeds relating to cows, chickens, descendants of George V and a woman who died in the 40s. You should see my deeds. I can keep pigs if I want to (that would interest my new bad neighbours, wouldn't it?} I cannot be a manure merchant or a tallow candler maker. That is totally forbidden on the deeds. Damn it ;-) |I wanted to sell my chicken poo. |
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"kay" wrote in message ... Christina Websell;964507 Wrote: Unless you have horses. They will rarely eat ragwort when it is growing but when dried in hay they will and not a lot of it causes severe liver damage up to and including death. I did say a reason for not killing ALL the ragwort. Of course you're going to kill it on or next to grazing land. But it is a british native plant, and therefore I don't think it is reasonable to seek to eradicate completely from the UK. ISTR that ragwort is a notifiable weed and you are obliged to pull it up by law. I might be wrong on this. yes, you are indeed wrong on two counts.[/i][/color] I knew it! 1) It is not notifiable. No plants, as far as I am aware, are notifiable. If someone tells you that a plant is notifiable, try asking them who you are supposed to notify ;-) 2) You are not obliged to pull it up, merely to take measure to avoid its spreading IF you have been served notice to this effect by the Ministry (ie someone else has been able to demonstrate that your ragwort is spreading on to their land). It is covered by two Acts The Weeds Act 1959, which covers spear thistle, creeping thistle, curled dock, broad leaved dock and ragwort, allows MAFF (presumably now DEFRA) to serve a notice on a landowner to take whatever measures are required to stop the weed spreading. The Ragwort Control Act 2003 provides for the Minister to draw up a code of practice on the control of Ragwort. Maybe I was thinking of this Act. I did say I could be wrong about it being notifiable. I've eliminated it from my land. It took a few years. -- kay |
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I suppose that, if there is a dispute about controlling ragwort, and one side says "I have taken all reasonable steps to prevent it spreading", the other side can say "have you taken all the steps described in the Code of Practice?" You are surrounded by grazing land, I believe. I am in the middle of town, with one horse half a mile away as the crow flies, and the nearest cows or sheep a mile away. On the other hand, I do have cinnabar moths and no groundsel - they lay their eggs on species of Senecio, not on grasses - so I don't feel the same need to try to eradicate a native plant.
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On 17/07/2012 01:03, Christina Websell wrote:
"Jake" wrote in message ... On Sun, 15 Jul 2012 22:09:47 +0100, David Hill wrote: It's not notifiable , you only have to look at how much grows along the Motorways where it's left to it's own devices. David @ the showery end of Swansea bay It's merely an "injurious weed" as per the Weeds Act of 1950something (yep, there is such an Act). The Sec of State can serve a notice on someone on whose land common ragwort (among I think 5 weeds in total) is growing to prevent its spread. Indeed Ragwort got its own Act in 2003 I believe. IIRC it's hilarious. You might not find it so hilarious if it killed your horse, eh? For more information on Rabwort then see http://www.ragwortfacts.com/ Not all Ragwort is native to UK "Oxford ragwort gets its name from the Oxford Botanic Gardens where plants were first grown in the 1700s. They had been collected from Mount Etna on the Island of Sicily where they were found growing on the lava fields. By1794 the plant was to be found on the city walls having escaped from its original source. With the advent of the railways Oxford Ragwort, finding the clinker beds of the tracks similar to its original volcanic habitat spread around the country. Oxford Ragwort can now be found all over the UK and is often to be found growing in the gaps in paving stones. Recent research (1) has found that Oxford Ragwort (Senecio squalidus) is actually of hybrid origin. Its parents are two other speicies of Ragwort, Senecio aethnensis and Senecio chrysanthemifolius which are both only found on Sicily. It appears that the occur at different heights on the mountain and in between these points on the mountain the hybrid occurs. It is this Ragwort that was originally taken to Oxford." |
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