Sacha wrote:
> 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?
>
It does help to know exactly what it is you're trying to get rid of
though, so I'm grateful for the discussion :-)
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