Where have all the weeds gone?

lying dormant from the fosts. many seeds will sprout once it warms up and we start digging. many seeds germinate when they get exposed to a little light before being re buried. the field poppy is a case in point and thats why it grew so well in the battle fields of WW1.

They are all there just waiting to catch you unaware

Have you both missed the second line? Goypeadia now has a page for weeds do let me know if I have missed yours.

You are joking! If you want Hairy Bittercress and annual nettles, as well as goosegrass and speedwell, just come down here - they are up and doing, and the H,B. has started to flower already! Grrrr....

Do you want new photos of them, Denise - or are you asking us to keep an eye open for existing photos?

Both please Spritz so that we have a lot of named weeds to look at as well. I find weeds interesting because years ago they may not have been regarded as weeds but as medicine or food and what I think of as weeds may be regard by my neighbour as a plant!

As I don't really want to post photos of weeds for eveyone to 'admire' on my page, I might be able to write a mini-blog on them - would that be OK, Denise?

That would be of great interest thank-you Spritz.

Just being ditzy, Drc :~)))

You might get some pretty flowers added to that and plants, as a weed is a plant that is not wanted.lol

There waiting 4 the spring to come ......to spring up again.....LOL

will be interesting to put a name to all the weeds we have to get rid of on new plot ,so i will be taking a good look thanks...

no i didnt mis the sub line but i just felt like sharing my thoughts on those pesky weeds. and there will never be a virtual place big enough for all the weeds :o)

Poor you SBG, I hate weeds with runners

Really when weeding we should all wear gloves as when I first moved here some years ago, I had a poster through my door, which stated if this weed you find report it imediately to the authorities, as just by touching it seeps into the skin and destroys the pancress.

which weed was that then?

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Ragwort.

Could you be thinking of the damage marijuana does to the pancreas thats a weed? Campaign about reporting its being grown some years ago.

Surely that true of lots of plants as well as weeds Sixd I come out in a rash with several plants one is Feverfew.

Of course it is Drc one of the most poisoness plants is Monkwood, as 2 children died just holding the root of it, just by touching can bring on palpatations too, just thought I would highlight, weeds too.

so many plants can prove to be lethal if treated incorrectly. I have never found the article regarding the child deaths from just holding the plant. I suspect it is an urban myth. but the alkaloid in aconites [aconitine] can be absorbed but you have to get quite a lot of sap on the skin. It is an interesting toxin used for centuries in alsorts of rememdies.
Our council asked us to keep an eye out for ragwort mainly to protect grazing animals as it is another one that 'hurts' horses and cattle if eaten. They didnt mention ill effects on humans though. perhaps thats just our council.

the victorians knew that daff bulbs chopped and eaten as onions caused death too. so dont mix them up!!

Us gardeners are a funny bunch really, we have spent years trying to get rid of what we considered weeds, now many people are buying ,begging and dare I say it !!!!!!,stealing (meaning seedheads) flowers and plants for our gardens. Why ?...Because we learnt a valuable lesson and now know that we do need them to help us preserve our home..Mother Earth....It will be good to actually be able to name more and learn about them, ......