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Common ragweed

didywdidyw Posts: 3,573
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Three new plants popped up in my bed.  I was hoping they would turn out to be something useful as they look so healthy and lush. But my investigations show them to be common ragweed.  So I won't 'wait and see if it flowers' as its pollen is a harmful allergen apparently.  Shame they have to come out.  I rather liked them.

Gardening in East Suffolk on dry sandy soil.

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  • Balgay.HillBalgay.Hill Posts: 1,089
    Why take it out if you like it?
    Sunny Dundee
  • didywdidyw Posts: 3,573
    I might leave it a bit @Balgay.Hill and whip them out at the first sign of flowering.
    Gardening in East Suffolk on dry sandy soil.
  • Balgay.HillBalgay.Hill Posts: 1,089
    didyw said:
    I might leave it a bit @Balgay.Hill and whip them out at the first sign of flowering.
    Plants are plants. There was a beautiful giant hogweed next to my garden last year, and i never reported it to the council for removing.
    Our gardens are for plants that we like.  :)
    Sunny Dundee
  • arneilarneil Posts: 313
    Ragweed has a very potent pollen causing severe allergies
  • arneilarneil Posts: 313
    Hogweed has sap that can be very painful on the skin 


    Both of these plants are not native and very invasive
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Giant hogweed is potentially problematic, not the ordinary one  :)
    I don't know ragweed, so looked it up. The flowers aren't particularly noticeable. 
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • Balgay.HillBalgay.Hill Posts: 1,089
    arneil said:
    Hogweed has sap that can be very painful on the skin 


    Both of these plants are not native and very invasive
    If you use a strimmer in bare feet you might lose a toe or two.
    Sunny Dundee
  • arneilarneil Posts: 313
    Sigh ….
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    edited October 2023
    Highly invasive and a worry, it seems 


  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    arneil said:
    Hogweed has sap that can be very painful on the skin 


    Both of these plants are not native and very invasive
    To clarify … Giant Hogweed Heracleum mantegazzianum is the non native and dangerous plant. 

    Common Hogweed Heracleum sphondylium is a UK native plant, not dangerous, and an important wildlife resource. 

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





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