Re: Glyphosate

In message <C4533A01.6D28A%sacha@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Sacha 
<sacha@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes

>>
>> Looks like a white bluebell and smells strongly when crushed. Allium
>> triquetum I think.
>> As I said, I'm working from memory here. Very frustrating :-)
>
>Aka Ransoms or wild garlic.  Dig it up or spray it seems to be the only
way.
>I rather like it so when I had it in a previous garden, I always kept
some
>of it.  But it absolutely fills the verges of some of the lanes round
here.

I don't think that it will be Ransoms (Allium ursinum) as the flowers 
although white are not like those of a blue bell - have a look here
http://www.ukwildflowers.com/Web_pages/allium_ursinum_ramsons.htm

The Ransoms which abound in the adjacent wood and in our front shrub 
border (despite annual applications of glyphosate for the last eight 
years) do not need cru****ng to release their 'perfume' it is just 
omnipresent.  I love wildflowers and try to promote their use in our 
garden and, whenever I get the op****tunity, elsewhere, but Ransoms most 
definitely comes under the heading of invasive.

The probable alternative is Three cornered leek/garlic (A. triquetrum) 
as indicated above.  A non-native plant which I have noticed is present 
in quite large drifts at the sides of a local road but has not yet 
reached here.
-- 
Robert