Identification Please?
Veggie Offline
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I was pretty sure it was wild garlic but because you'd said it didn't smell of anything, it threw me.
It is very invasive. A friend had it in her garden and it stank! She couldn't weed it all out, every year it came back more and more.
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Vinny Offline
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(06-03-2021, 07:14 PM)Veggie Wrote: I was pretty sure it was wild garlic but because you'd said it didn't smell of anything, it threw me.
It is very invasive. A friend had it in her garden and it stank! She couldn't weed it all out, every year it came back more and more.
I thought so too. Rolleyes You have just put me off buying some fresh Ramsom seed Veggie. I have sowed some old seed that I have and it hasn't grown. Maybe its a good thing in a way. I was going to plant it around my soft fruit bushes as a ground cover but I don't fancy garlic infused gooseberries and blackcurrants now. Cry
I'll just have to go with the original plan of planting out spare strawberries around fruit bushes as ground cover. Big Grin
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(05-11-2020, 04:31 PM)Spec Wrote: Rather than start a new thread, could anyone tell me the name of this shrub
It looks like a cornus dogwood to me - it produces tiny black berries. Im going to google later...
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Veggie Offline
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^^^ Another slow reader. Wink
Spec, what does your shrub look like now?
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Sorry, I haven't been myself and I've got a big project on that's taking over my life! I hope SC fairs better on her house that my 12ft square extension. I hate listed planners. Water table, stee supports and old crumbly stone not to mention dust. I've never had to clean so much in my life. Everything is covered in it....and my phone is also on its way out.

Ok - so that's my Sunday whinge over
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Veggie Offline
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Alright - you're excused!! Whinge to your heart's content - just don't ask me to come and clean for you.Smile
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Scarlet Offline
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OMG! It's horrible fine chalk like dust everywhere. Clouds of it whenever we move anything....I've also had several plumbing issues and a few floods Big Grin
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Spec Offline
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(07-03-2021, 12:31 PM)Veggie Wrote: ^^^ Another slow reader. Wink
Spec, what does your shrub look like now?
Not sure Veggie, it's mixed in with the rest of the compost Smile
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(06-03-2021, 06:53 PM)Broadway Wrote: Firstly apologies to Veggie and Eyren for deleting my previous post after you'd replied!

I decided I wanted to get a better picture and more evidence so I popped back today.

Anyway this time I picked and scrunched a few leaves and god the smell of garlic was unbelievable!

Yay, I was right! Evidently it was worth freezing my toes off all those years ago, as a young graduate working in urban ecology Big Grin
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Veggie Offline
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No qualifications for me - just in interest in wild plants and looking up plants I didn't recognise in a book. i still prefer books to Google.
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