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Title: What do you call your weeds?
Post by: caroline7758 on May 30, 2012, 18:14:03

I posted around this time last year that I was finding more and more Herb Bennett (geum urbanum) in my garden and allotment. I have now re-named this the b****rd plant, as I curse it every time I find it popping up somewhere new. >:(
Does anyone else have their own names for weeds?

Title: Re: What do you call your weeds?
Post by: Flighty on May 30, 2012, 18:27:47

Thanks Caroline, I was looking at a plant this morning that I didn't recognise and I'm sure it's Herb Bennet!
http://www.english-country-garden.com/flowers/herb-bennet.htm
At the moment it's in an okay place so I'll leave it be for now.

As for having a name for weeds...!

Title: Re: What do you call your weeds?
Post by: katynewbie on May 30, 2012, 18:34:43

Given that it goes back years: Mare's Tail=sleeper of Babylon...

Title: Re: What do you call your weeds?
Post by: small on May 30, 2012, 19:03:27

I let Herb Bennett get hold the year I thought the seedlings were from some cultivated geums. For some reason I find it a hard name to remember, in my head it's always fake-geum....there is fake-parsley as well, but I don't even know the correct name for that!

Title: Re: What do you call your weeds?
Post by: Duke Ellington on May 30, 2012, 19:17:16

I dont know what it's called but there is a weed in my garden that fires little seeds when you touch it!!
I swear every time it attacks me :o So you can guess what I call it.
Does anyone know what it's called?

Title: Re: What do you call your weeds?
Post by: katynewbie on May 30, 2012, 19:35:04

Lol I have been bleeped out! It was Wh*re of Babylon!

Title: Re: What do you call your weeds?
Post by: Linnea on May 30, 2012, 21:32:32

Quote from: Duke Ellington on May 30, 2012, 19:17:16
I dont know what it's called but there is a weed in my garden that fires little seeds when you touch it!!
I swear every time it attacks me :o So you can guess what I call it.
Does anyone know what it's called?

I have that one. I call it the pingy weed. latin name possibly arabidopsis thaliana

Title: Re: What do you call your weeds?
Post by: Duke Ellington on May 30, 2012, 22:11:57

just found this and my machine gun weeds looks like this
http://www.gardenorganic.org.uk/organicweeds/weed_information/weed.php?id=84
It's horrible!! >:(

Title: Re: What do you call your weeds?
Post by: Jeannine on May 30, 2012, 23:10:48

I call them all interlopers.XX Jeannine

Title: Re: What do you call your weeds?
Post by: Lishka on May 31, 2012, 19:13:50

Quote from: katynewbie on May 30, 2012, 19:35:04
Lol I have been bleeped out! It was Wh*re of Babylon!

So perhaps she'd like to be introduced to my friend...........

Sticky Willy?

::) ;D

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