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RE: Identification Please? - Veggie - 06-03-2021
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.
RE: Identification Please? - Vinny - 06-03-2021
(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.I thought so too.
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.
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. 
I'll just have to go with the original plan of planting out spare strawberries around fruit bushes as ground cover.
RE: Identification Please? - Scarlet - 07-03-2021
(05-11-2020, 04:31 PM)Spec Wrote: Rather than start a new thread, could anyone tell me the name of this shrubIt looks like a cornus dogwood to me - it produces tiny black berries. Im going to google later...
RE: Identification Please? - Veggie - 07-03-2021
^^^ Another slow reader.
Spec, what does your shrub look like now?
RE: Identification Please? - Scarlet - 07-03-2021
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
RE: Identification Please? - Veggie - 07-03-2021
Alright - you're excused!! Whinge to your heart's content - just don't ask me to come and clean for you.
RE: Identification Please? - Scarlet - 07-03-2021
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
RE: Identification Please? - Spec - 07-03-2021
(07-03-2021, 12:31 PM)Veggie Wrote: ^^^ Another slow reader.Not sure Veggie, it's mixed in with the rest of the compost
Spec, what does your shrub look like now?
RE: Identification Please? - Eyren - 08-03-2021
(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
RE: Identification Please? - Veggie - 08-03-2021
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.