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Need Help Identifying, NOT Cannabis!

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  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    Sticky Willy and cleavers are one and the same. It's shallow rooted and easy to pull up. I could understand it if the housing association was concerned about the garden being overgrown with weeds. Maybe they're mixing up weeds with weed :p .
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    As already said - that's willowherb in the pic, not Cannabis. Best removed or it'll be everywhere if it sets seed. 


    I've always called cleavers sticky willy. I didn't know it by any other name till I was quite old! Easy to pull out though. 
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    I’d never heard Sticky Willy until I joined this forum. We always called it Goosegrass. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • LiriodendronLiriodendron Posts: 8,328
    Definitely rosebay willowherb.  Not that easy to remove because it has thick, spreading roots which will regrow if broken.
    Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
  • dr.davidericwilliamsKtvR3U7Ydr.davidericwilliamsKtvR3U7Y Posts: 2
    Thanks you all, It really does look like rosebay willowherb, so thanks again! And this patch grows back like mad as it was only last cut back on the 29/ March, and when the investigation is over it will be time to dig them roots out.
  • Papi JoPapi Jo Posts: 4,254
    Has that housing association officer been smoking weed?
  • CeresCeres Posts: 2,698
    Dovefromabove said:
    I’d never heard Sticky Willy until I joined this forum. We always called it Goosegrass. 

    I call it "bollock weed" on account of the seeds.
  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    Ceres said:
    Dovefromabove said:
    I’d never heard Sticky Willy until I joined this forum. We always called it Goosegrass. 

    I call it "bollock weed" on account of the seeds.
    That's a new one to me :D
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • CeresCeres Posts: 2,698
    I doubt Linnaeus would approve.
  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    I always called it "goosegrass" too. Also heard "sticky willy" for the first time on this forum. I agree with willowherb, not cannabis.
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
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