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Treacodactyl
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 25697
Location: Jumping on the bandwagon of opportunism
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 Posted: Fri May 13, 05 7:41 pm Post subject: Plants that shouldn't be sold or grown. |
 
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Following on from recent post I thought it would be good to write an article making people more aware of what plants have been sold that are real thugs and not only take over the garden but also are a huge threat to our countryside. An obvious example is Japanese knot weed, that can no longer be sold and needs special care to dispose of.
There are however many other plants that cause problems and are still sold so if you have any suggestions of thugs please post details. For example Spanish bluebells, which are legally available but shouldn't be planted.
I'll also look up details of what's being done to try and prevent these plants from being sold, any help and info would be great. |
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thos
Joined: 08 Mar 2005
Posts: 1139
Location: Jauche, Duchy of Brabant (Bourgogne-ci) and Charolles, Duchy of Burgundy (Bourgogne-ça)
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| Posted: Fri May 13, 05 7:45 pm Post subject: |
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My vote goes to the elder. A lovely plant with fantastic flowers, but the devil to dig out when you have too many. |
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joanne
Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 7094
Location: Morecambe, Lancashire
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| Posted: Fri May 13, 05 8:33 pm Post subject: |
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Russian Vine - I detest that stuff
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wellington womble
Joined: 08 Nov 2004
Posts: 14971
Location: East Midlands
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| Posted: Fri May 13, 05 9:32 pm Post subject: |
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mint? 
I bought a gardening book recently, which had a page dedicated what shouldn't be grown as it wasn't native and would spread, and semi-warnings about some some plants - it was an american book though so the plants didn't apply - one of them was yarrow, i recall! |
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gavin
Joined: 10 Feb 2005
Posts: 93
Location: Leeds, W Yorks
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| Posted: Sun May 15, 05 9:21 am Post subject: |
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Category C plants??? 
Russian vine can do a good job of holding a rickety shed together
Mint needs tight control - so does horseradish; and the comfreys (not the sterile Bocking 14). Feverfew?
All best - Gavin |
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cab
Joined: 01 Nov 2004
Posts: 32429
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Rhododendrons. The species that can spread in our woodlands, bloody awful stuff. Pretty, but destructive.
I'd also be careful not to grow plants that look edible but aren't; I took the liberty of uprooting some deadly nightshade from just outside the gates of a local primary school two years ago. Didn't seem the right place for it (and it's common enough locally anyway). |
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Gervase
Joined: 17 Nov 2004
Posts: 8655
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Mint's OK if you either grow it in a pot or cut the bottom out of an old bucket and put that in the bed and then put the mint in it to stop it spreading. I couldn't be without the stuff!
Absoloutely concur on rhododendrons - pointless bloody things anyway/ |
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cab
Joined: 01 Nov 2004
Posts: 32429
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I cycled past a great big hemlock plant by the Cam yesterday. It's right by a pathway, at one of the bridges. Don't really like it there, but I guess it'll do no harm. |
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judith
Joined: 16 Dec 2004
Posts: 22789
Location: Montgomeryshire
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| Posted: Mon May 16, 05 8:42 am Post subject: |
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That one gets my vote too. I didn't listen to my sister when she told me not to plant it in my garden. |
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cab
Joined: 01 Nov 2004
Posts: 32429
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| Judith wrote: |
That one gets my vote too. I didn't listen to my sister when she told me not to plant it in my garden. |
Ahh, yes. We got it in a 'wild flower' seed mix. That and borage made a concerted attempt to take over the garden. It was only stopped by the lemon balm.
Feverfew is a beautiful plant, but such a thug. |
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wellington womble
Joined: 08 Nov 2004
Posts: 14971
Location: East Midlands
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| Posted: Mon May 16, 05 9:16 am Post subject: |
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I must have black fingers! My mint is struggling, and hanging on by a leaf or two, my lemon balm died, and although I had feverfew for a year or too, its gone now. I've had borage in the past, but it hasn't self seeded, and my boston ivy apppears to have died as well.
Perhaps I should rent myself out as an organic weedkiller!
I have lots of bindweed turning up in unexpected (and awkward) places though! |
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nettie
Joined: 02 Dec 2004
Posts: 5886
Location: Suffolk
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| Posted: Mon May 16, 05 6:10 pm Post subject: |
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Vinca major. Bloody nuisance.  |
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mochyn
Joined: 21 Dec 2004
Posts: 24569
Location: mid-Wales
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| Posted: Thu May 19, 05 8:41 am Post subject: |
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And then there's the water plants: from Greater Reed Mace to the native Water-Lily, Fairy Fern... there's a long list! |
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tahir
Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 44229
Location: Essex
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| Posted: Thu May 19, 05 9:21 am Post subject: |
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Mochyn, I don't want to pressure you or anything but you'd be the ideal person to do an article on invasive plants that should be avoided. |
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mochyn
Joined: 21 Dec 2004
Posts: 24569
Location: mid-Wales
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| Posted: Thu May 19, 05 9:26 am Post subject: |
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I'm going to shut up now.
I'll have a think... |
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