odile Posted June 26, 2008 Share Posted June 26, 2008 sounds like Mullein to me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lavie Posted June 26, 2008 Author Share Posted June 26, 2008 Verbascum Pulverulentum it is!!! Also called Hoary Mullein!This link http://www.kuleuven-kortrijk.be/bioweb/?lang=en&detail=844 has other pics of it.Thank you for identifying it. For those that don't like them, the standard systemic weedkiller (glycosophate) eradicated my neighbours! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooperlola Posted June 26, 2008 Share Posted June 26, 2008 Next time I need to eradicate my neighbours, I know what to use! I cannot use weedkiller on mine as they're in the paddock, so just chop 'em down before they go to seed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lavie Posted June 26, 2008 Author Share Posted June 26, 2008 Apparently their seeds were used in the 1930's to get rid of tapeworm!!! Bring back old medicine and thats a new business idea!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pads Posted June 26, 2008 Share Posted June 26, 2008 http://www.msknursery.com/images/plants/verbascum-olympicum.jpg Is this what you mean ? they start out as plants then self seed them selves and revert back to the weed type that get every where Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tressy Posted June 26, 2008 Share Posted June 26, 2008 Keep up at the back, Pads! [;-)]It's not 'olympicum', but a different Verbascum.[:)]Plenty of plants self seed. It's only when we don't want them to that we call them 'weeds', rather than, say, 'wild flowers'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odile Posted June 29, 2008 Share Posted June 29, 2008 just driven back from Surrey and saw plenty growing by the M25. It's actually a really nice plant. Personally I would enjoyit for the summer then cut it off before it seeds everywhere - and throw the seedheads in a ditch. Also saw lots of lavateras, mauves and teasels - and the roadside ... and the birds, would definitely be the poorer without them. But I wouldn't want one in the middle of the lawn! In Kaui a few years back we were admiring the amazing ginger flowers growing everywhere, but the locals just hated them! And at the Huntingdon Gardens near LA, they were trying really hard to grow dendelions... whilst in Tuscany they just hate their poppies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odile Posted July 2, 2008 Share Posted July 2, 2008 thought about you today Lavie. Saw quite a few Mullein growing in a lovely cottage garden in Wing, Rutland- when I visited a garden sculpture exhibition. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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