Malcolm wrote:

In one of the earlier programmes in the series, she visited the new
Yorkshire RHS garden and both she and one of the gardeners there used
the name Mare's Tail when looking at a border full of Horsetail and
saying that it would have to be eradicated by spraying. OK, Equisetum
is, sometimes, called Mare's Tail, though I'm not alone in thinking it
shouldn't be, but the error was doubly confounded by the entry in the
Radio Times which not only mentioned that they would discuss a problem
with Mare's Tail but used the Latin name Hippuris vulgaris :-(

If only all my Horsetail could be replaced by Mare's Tail.....!


The danger of common epithets!-)

Eg bluebells are not always bluebells;-)
//
Jim