I took my camera for a walk around the Sirhowy with Losyn and I this morning

[linda_joyce]

Mainly to ask you if you can confirm or allay my fears about the pictures under the cut. That didn't stop me going bananas with it else where though.



Are these seedling Giant Hogweed? I've only ever seen it full grown towering over a cottage somewhere in Kent 36 years ago but somethong tells me we have been invaded. There are6 of them all together.

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[steverogerson.livejournal.com]

Looking at this picture, it doesn't look that similar:

http://www.gardenorganic.org.uk/organicweeds/weed_information/weed.php?id=109

[linda-joyce.livejournal.com]

That is what I thought too. But that is the adult form and the little I remember of my A level Botany keeps telling me seedlings can look very different from the adult plant.

[tattooedraven.livejournal.com]

If only it were so green here! *iz jealous* But amazed at the all the greeny!

[linda-joyce.livejournal.com]

We pay for it in rain on at least half the days of each month of the year. And should a summer month go by without rain we will have flash floods the next month. What irks me is not the fact that we have so much rain but even though we do have so much rain there are always warnings of water shortage should bore than 6 weeks go by with out it. How do you manage in such a dry land?

[quarryquest.livejournal.com]

That is burdock (as in dandelion and)

http://www.ontariowildflower.com/images/common_burdock_plant.jpg

it does grow very big, and you get nice sticky seedpods you can throw at people (they got the idea for velcro from them!)

[linda-joyce.livejournal.com]

Thank you, I have seen a burdock around here before so it is still an invader but not a poisonous one like giant hog weed. I am much relieved.

[jaxomsride.livejournal.com]

Well if it is burdock this site shows it in most of its stages.
I used to love dandelion and buurdock pop but this is the first time I have found out what it looks like. I've been passing some on my way to work for years now!

[vjezkova.livejournal.com]

I suspected what was it about but checked on the links. Well, I understand your worries about a Hogweed (now I know the English name) as we had it here and it cost a lot of effort and money to get rid of it. Believe me or not, one of our neighbours brought it here "for decorative purposes"! No one noticed but me, I told to my husband and he alarmed a local council ( he is a memeber), so a campaign was arranged and the plant destroyed before speading the seeds...
I believeburdock is among useful herbs too?

[jaxomsride.livejournal.com]

This is a good site for our invader plants.
http://www.languard.co.uk/invasives/giant_hogweed.php

The plant you have looks like a sort of rhubarb plant.