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What ever next? - JJB - 27-05-2024
Online the Mirror today was spouting rubbish (no change there then) warning us about a plant more dangerous than Japanese Knotweed. The buddleia.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/lifestyle/gardening/highly-dangerous-plant-could-wreak-32852726
We're told it could reduce house prices, kill off native species by distracting pollinators etc. so we should all kill off our buddleias. What tosh.
RE: What ever next? - Small chilli - 27-05-2024
Really!!
!!! We are talking just the normal purple stuff right? Not some super thug that’s had an accident in a lab , like Dr banner
. Sorry I refuse to click on that link
RE: What ever next? - Vinny - 27-05-2024
I have a single buddleia which was growing in the cement between my brickwork which I liberated
. There are no buddleias growing nearby so it must have come some distance with the wind or a bird?It was a FREE flowering plant, planted in a sunny spot for the butterflies who love it!
RE: What ever next? - JJB - 27-05-2024
I've got several in the garden, orange, deep purple and mauve. None are invasive. I occasionally propagate them unintentionally by using buddleia sticks to support summat. I even gave a big pot of buddleia 'sticks' to a neighbour who wanted to fill gaps in a hedge. I'm not digging mine out.
RE: What ever next? - JJB - 27-05-2024
(27-05-2024, 11:17 AM)Small chilli Wrote: Really!!
We are talking just the normal purple stuff right? Not some super thug that’s had an accident in a lab , like Dr banner
Sorry I refuse to click on that link
Bear in mind it is the Mirror.
RE: What ever next? - toomanytommytoes - 27-05-2024
Why is a company which sells sheds giving horticultural advice? Just seems like an advert for that company, with a link to their website included in the article. Shed company pays The Mirror for an article, The Mirror writes a sensationalist headline, gets it trending on social media, the shed shop gets loads of clicks, The Mirror gets lots of ad revenue. Rinse and repeat. Tabloids are absolute rags. They were bad enough in print form, but online, and particularly The Mirror Group websites, they're just clickbait farms.
There's loads of buddleia growing in strange places in cities all over the country. I've seen it on top of church bell towers and 10 metres up in the old, giant sandstone walls in some of Liverpool's train stations.
RE: What ever next? - Bren - 28-05-2024
I'd rather have Buddleias than the Japanese Knotweed that's growing in the land behind our house.
RE: What ever next? - JJB - 05-06-2024
Marshalls are offering a deal (maybe) leek plants at less than 22p each i.e.40 for £9.99. Is it just me or is that extortionate and definitely not a bargain? Or am I being miserly again?
RE: What ever next? - Veggie - 05-06-2024
When I see offers like that I ask myself "How much would a leek cost to buy in a shop?
Morrisons are selling 5 trimmed leeks for £1.50 = 30p each. Marshalls seedlings are 22p and they need to be grown to edible size and survive all the vagaries of weather, pests, etc. The offer doesn't include P&P either.
Deal or No Deal .............No Deal.
RE: What ever next? - Veggie - 12-07-2024
(05-06-2024, 10:49 AM)JJB Wrote: Marshalls are offering a deal (maybe) leek plants at less than 22p each i.e.40 for £9.99. Is it just me or is that extortionate and definitely not a bargain? Or am I being miserly again?You should have bought them - they were a bargain!
DTBrown are offering 40 plants for £13.90 (39p each) plus £4.95 P&P https://www.dtbrownseeds.co.uk/products/leek-veg-plant-collection?utm_id=01J2DX49CV38XMF09E64FZQ2WJ&_kx=j-ZWRLMwgWIy77eYAcAyNINApgiHOEcXb-QlLPA-K24.SHCV6i