How true!

Yup very true - lol :)

is bamboo a weed then ? a weed is a plant in the wrong place .

Yes and no NP there are plants I would deem as weeds regardless. Giant hogweed being the first and for most along with other 'fancy garden' escapists.

Pull it out breaking off some of the root which remains in the ground. Pot up the plant. If both the plant and the remenant root both grow - it is a weed. If both die - it was a plant!

But surely that goes for lots of plants that aren't regarded as weeds? I'm sorry but I don't support this theory.

I agree Myron weeds are plants of course and they all belong some wear . ironicly a lot of the plants we cherish and think belong in our gardens definatly don't belong in this country like say weeping willows . then theres stinging nettles that nobody in general wants in there garden that totally belong here . a weed is a plant wear both ends grow if replanted . well that makes water cress a weed then or are water plants something else than a weed or a plant ? im confused . I totally respect allen titchmarsh for lots of reasens and I agree with what he and I now say as said above . one mans meat is another mans poison .

i think if you look up plant in the dictionary you will see everything that grows with roots and sometimes without .

Plants, also called green plants (Viridiplantae in Latin), are multicellular eukaryotes of the kingdom Plantae. They form a clade that includes the flowering plants, conifers and other gymnosperms, ferns, clubmosses, hornworts, liverworts, mosses and the green algae. Plants exclude the red and brown algae, animals, the fungi, archaea and bacteria.

Green plants have cell walls with cellulose and characteristically obtain most of their energy from sunlight via photosynthesis by primary chloroplasts, derived from endosymbiosis with cyanobacteria. Their chloroplasts contain chlorophylls a and b which gives them their green color. Some plants are parasitic and have lost the ability to produce normal amounts of chlorophyll or to photosynthesize. Plants are also characterized by sexual reproduction, modular and indeterminate growth, and an alternation of generations, although asexual reproduction is common.

Precise numbers are difficult to determine, but as of 2010, there are thought to be 300–315 thousand species of plants, of which the great majority, some 260–290 thousand, are seed plants (see the table below).[1] Green plants provide most of the world's molecular oxygen[2] and are the basis of most of the earth's ecologies, especially on land. Plants that produce grains, fruits and vegetables form mankind's basic foodstuffs, and have been domesticated for millennia. Plants are used as ornaments and, until recently and in great variety, they have served as the source of most medicines and drugs. The scientific study of plants is known as botany, a branch of biology.

now im know expert but this tells you kind of what i said.

now lets put that to bed shall we lol .

I readthe other day that if you have japanese knotweed (or any invasive species) and do not attempt to control it you will be given an ASBO!!

That's funny Sue ... :D made me laugh.
I tried to pull a weed out of one of my cactus pots yesterday and it did exactly that !

Now you folk who appear to have taken this as serious advice - smile please, you're on Candid Camera...(who remembers that?) Of course it isn't true, it just made me laugh.

Hywel, you chose the wrong plant to try it out on there!

well it wasn't a serious answer from me just the right one as its not the first time its cropped up and theres the same old wives tail answers ya trouble maker sg lol x .

Oh dear. If I'm a trouble maker I'd better try to live up to my reputation! I thought I was telling a joke :((

never a dull moment on here...load of troublemakers when nosey potter was trying to be serious ....lol

Lol Sandra -I did say garden plants, not just plants after all!

The query and the comments made me smile Stera, really like Mr B's response and definitely agree with him.
Leigh you got a bit too technical so going back to read and try to absorb all you have written, brain does not work as good as it used to, takes a while to sink in these days, lol..
Its damp, dark and dismal so do need lots of things to read over the coming weeks and the questions pages has always entertained me in the past, bring it on, lol.....

Ooo Snoop, xx!

Lol Lincs!

lol

Blimey Nosey, have you just got a degree in botony or something? Very serious!

no camomile the internet is a great resource . I did know what I copied just not the big wordsw to expain myself lol .

Good on you Nosey!

thank you mg