Well, I'll be taking you up on your kind offer of assistance with identification. I was watching a Time Travellers Guide tonight. Quite by chance, I caught a gimpse of a plant called Sweet Woodruff. I'm gutted, because I'm pretty certain that this evening, I pulled up a whole load of it thinking it was cleavers. If only I'd have waited for my books, or posted a pic here. I'm sure I didn't manage to clear it all, so I'll take a pic tomorrow and get confirmation.
No more pulling anything up until I know for sure what it is. What an idiot
Caroline you won't have pulled up woodruff. Elimination of woodruff is a major job. It's lovely though, I wouldn't be without it.
what you pulled up was most likely cleavers, if your hands and arms were red and sore when you got in the shower that was cleavers. it sprawls all over other plants, woodruffis a low grower.
OK - do I hang my head in shame for ripping out woodruff? Or, can I celebrate clearing out the cleavers (although not all of them, as the pic clearly shows);
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Well, I'll be taking you up on your kind offer of assistance with identification. I was watching a Time Travellers Guide tonight. Quite by chance, I caught a gimpse of a plant called Sweet Woodruff. I'm gutted, because I'm pretty certain that this evening, I pulled up a whole load of it thinking it was cleavers. If only I'd have waited for my books, or posted a pic here. I'm sure I didn't manage to clear it all, so I'll take a pic tomorrow and get confirmation.
No more pulling anything up until I know for sure what it is. What an idiot
Hi CarolineCB, welcome and nice to meet you
Caroline, we all make mistakes like that
Caroline you won't have pulled up woodruff. Elimination of woodruff is a major job. It's lovely though, I wouldn't be without it.
what you pulled up was most likely cleavers, if your hands and arms were red and sore when you got in the shower that was cleavers. it sprawls all over other plants, woodruffis a low grower.
In the sticks near Peterborough
It's nice to meet you too, Paula
OK - do I hang my head in shame for ripping out woodruff? Or, can I celebrate clearing out the cleavers (although not all of them, as the pic clearly shows);
that looks like woodruff. I wonder if you pulled cleavers off the top of it which is what I have to do most years.
In the sticks near Peterborough
Hi Caroline CB. Not sure about woodruff but it definately not cleavers. Cleavers is the stuff that sticks to you.