On 16/5/08 22:01, in article nNmUmtPUYfLIFw3E@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"robert"
<robertNews@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 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.
Well, this is interesting BUT the OP wants to know how to be rid of it. I
don't think he's over concerned about its botanical name! So - how would
you get rid of it?
--
Sacha
http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
'We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our
children.'
|
