Thank you 'Bilje' - I think I could open up a compost factory at the speed in which it shoots up after I've cut it back. I'll keep your advice to hand, as I'll need to find some purpose for all the cuttings I get from it. It is my garden nemesis. haha!
Great advice Nutcutlet...I may need to consider this, but the Rosemary is well established and it is one of my garden favourite along with the Sage plant. It's an unusual choice to many - but I would fill my garden with Sage - it has the most amazing scent and the most beautiful flowers...I don't know why more people don't grow this. I love it...as do all the wildlife.
I do love Thyme...but Sage is one of my absolute favourite garden plants.
This Comphrey loves just about any conditions. I've cut it back, dug out the roots and even placed a roof tile over the top of it...and it still managed to make an appearance. Aside from entertaining the bees and making compost...I see no other positives to having this plant in my garden. They should rename it Comp-fiend!! haha.
Comfrey leaves and stalks can be boiled (stewed) for use as a poultice to put on bruising. It very quickly and effectively reduces the swelling, discolouration and pain (overnight). I used it frequently in my footballing days and would not be without some in the garden.
Its medicinal properties are interesting and given its rapid growth and determination; it's very likely that I could become entrepreneurial and sell it as compost and as an alternative medicine - as I will never be short of supply - haha!
I will tolerate it (despite its continuous mocking!) if only to entertain the bees.
Thank you for all your help and guidance. To visitors - I will now refer to it as Comfrey and refrain from the use of any expletives - haha!
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Thank you 'Bilje' - I think I could open up a compost factory at the speed in which it shoots up after I've cut it back. I'll keep your advice to hand, as I'll need to find some purpose for all the cuttings I get from it. It is my garden nemesis. haha!
I'd move the rosemary
Must be easier than shifting comphrey
In the sticks near Peterborough
Great advice Nutcutlet...I may need to consider this, but the Rosemary is well established and it is one of my garden favourite along with the Sage plant. It's an unusual choice to many - but I would fill my garden with Sage - it has the most amazing scent and the most beautiful flowers...I don't know why more people don't grow this. I love it...as do all the wildlife.
Thyme is another in the same family Daniel, I have a collection of different colours coming up toward flowering. They get covered with bees.
Lovely garden.
You can remove a comphrey plant with weedkillers, the paint on sort if they're in with other plants.
Comphrey does an excellent job on my pond banks, a very variable water level and comphrey puts up with high and dry and inundation
In the sticks near Peterborough
I do love Thyme...but Sage is one of my absolute favourite garden plants.
This Comphrey loves just about any conditions. I've cut it back, dug out the roots and even placed a roof tile over the top of it...and it still managed to make an appearance. Aside from entertaining the bees and making compost...I see no other positives to having this plant in my garden. They should rename it Comp-fiend!! haha.
It's not a plant I'd want if my garden was smaller and less wild.
In the sticks near Peterborough
Comfrey is also used in herbal medicines to heal broken bones and abcesses - however please do your own research if interested.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Comfrey leaves and stalks can be boiled (stewed) for use as a poultice to put on bruising. It very quickly and effectively reduces the swelling, discolouration and pain (overnight). I used it frequently in my footballing days and would not be without some in the garden.
Its medicinal properties are interesting and given its rapid growth and determination; it's very likely that I could become entrepreneurial and sell it as compost and as an alternative medicine - as I will never be short of supply - haha!
I will tolerate it (despite its continuous mocking!) if only to entertain the bees.
Thank you for all your help and guidance. To visitors - I will now refer to it as Comfrey and refrain from the use of any expletives - haha!