Please help identify

Posts

• Silver surfer Posts: 4,719

  March 2020 edited March 2020

  Arum italicum.
  
  https://www.google.com/search?q=Arum+italicum.&rlz=1C1CHBF_enGB785GB785&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjMu7nts8XoAhUeQEEAHTBxBXMQ_AUoAXoECBcQAw&biw=1920&bih=888
  

  Perthshire. SCOTLAND .

  0
• StillLearning Posts: 261

  March 2020

  Thanks Silver, I really don't like it, years of trying to get rid of it! but will learn to live with it, as it is quite a thug and very resilient!
  

  0
• amancalledgeorge Posts: 2,736

  March 2020

  If you use a weeder you should be able to remove the whole plant including the bulblets @StillLearning ...it's slow work but definitely brings down spread. I find this design (many brands available) seems to work: https://www.tooled-up.com/spear-and-jackson-elements-hand-weeder/prod/162281/

  To Plant a Garden is to Believe in Tomorrow

  0
• Papi Jo Posts: 4,254

  March 2020

  @amancalledgeorge or see this discussion: https://forum.gardenersworld.com/discussion/1036143/dandelion-weeder
  

  1
• StillLearning Posts: 261

  April 2020

  Morning George, thanks for the link but I have one of these and unfortunately some of the bulbs are so deep it cannot reach before the white stem snaps. Papi Jo the dandelion-weeder looks about the same length I have looked at links in north America and it appears to be quite a problem, so now a little concerned.  I have always prided myself on non-chemical usage but will now purchase weedkiller as I have previously tried vinegar with no luck.....
  

  0