PPP Posted May 13, 2018 Report Share Posted May 13, 2018 Hi Guys Any ideas? It’s not in any of my plant books.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
figgy Posted May 13, 2018 Report Share Posted May 13, 2018 Watch out it’s killer triffids need JDogs expertsise Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happy.plinker Posted May 13, 2018 Report Share Posted May 13, 2018 Looks a bit like the weed Horsetail? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garjo Posted May 13, 2018 Report Share Posted May 13, 2018 (edited) Horse tail or sometimes called maretail, it's a weed and difficult to get rid of Edited May 13, 2018 by garjo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PPP Posted May 13, 2018 Author Report Share Posted May 13, 2018 Just now, garjo said: Horse tail or sometimes called maretail, it's a seed and difficult to get rid of Brilliant, thanks, it’s all over the woodland trust land here and has spread onto the estate... The kids wanted to plant it in the garden...guess not! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TIGHTCHOKE Posted May 13, 2018 Report Share Posted May 13, 2018 Horse tail or Mares tail. once you have it, it may well stay for a long time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GingerCat Posted May 13, 2018 Report Share Posted May 13, 2018 As above. Pain to get rid of . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
panoma1 Posted May 13, 2018 Report Share Posted May 13, 2018 (edited) Mares tail! By all accounts the roots go very deep (up to 7 feet I have read?) as others have said, hard to get rid of! Edited May 13, 2018 by panoma1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDog Posted May 13, 2018 Report Share Posted May 13, 2018 Yes horse tail or mares tail, Hippuris vulgaris. As has been said very difficult to get rid of. It is an ancient plant, fossils of which are often found in coal deposits. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PPP Posted May 13, 2018 Author Report Share Posted May 13, 2018 10 minutes ago, JDog said: Yes horse tail or mares tail, Hippuris vulgaris. As has been said very difficult to get rid of. It is an ancient plant, fossils of which are often found in coal deposits. Makes sense, it does look quite cool (on someone else’s land) very Jurassic Park... Almost as cool as the huge Rhubarb looking stuff that we also have... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDog Posted May 13, 2018 Report Share Posted May 13, 2018 The 'rhubarb looking stuff' may well be Gunnera. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mice! Posted May 13, 2018 Report Share Posted May 13, 2018 dug some up last week, about a foot of root came up, between the drive and neighbours garden wall. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PPP Posted May 13, 2018 Author Report Share Posted May 13, 2018 (edited) 3 minutes ago, JDog said: The 'rhubarb looking stuff' may well be Gunnera. Yep, that’s the stuff! , it’s flipping huge and spiky... good for sheltering under when it rains.. Quite the botanist me! Edited May 13, 2018 by PPP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Konnie Posted May 13, 2018 Report Share Posted May 13, 2018 Found Depitox seems to make it very poorly, I think it's 2-4d that it contains (used it in paddock for mares tail) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AYA117 Posted May 13, 2018 Report Share Posted May 13, 2018 Only thing I found that kills it is Finale 150 it contains Glufosinate-ammonium Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDog Posted May 13, 2018 Report Share Posted May 13, 2018 17 minutes ago, Mice! said: dug some up last week, about a foot of root came up, between the drive and neighbours garden wall. You should kill it before trying to sell your house. Some Surveyors and Building Societies consider it only just behind Japanese Knotweed in terms of problems with surveys. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walshie Posted May 13, 2018 Report Share Posted May 13, 2018 Glyphosate seems to kill mares tail. Young ones are easily pulled up roots and all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
islandgun Posted May 13, 2018 Report Share Posted May 13, 2018 Horsetails can have roots that will go down metres, they also have a silica coating that shrugs off weedkillers, best thing is a lot of mowing. if in a lawn or hoeing elsewhere Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mice! Posted May 13, 2018 Report Share Posted May 13, 2018 27 minutes ago, JDog said: You should kill it before trying to sell your house. Some Surveyors and Building Societies consider it only just behind Japanese Knotweed in terms of problems with surveys. Didn't know that, its never really spread, it pops up amongst some stones at the side of drive, but the misses was having a tidy, have to see if any come back? talking about knotweed, someone had wrote in to the paper last week saying they had sprayed it when in flower even though it should have been done earlier but nothing had come up the next year? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mossy835 Posted May 13, 2018 Report Share Posted May 13, 2018 one of the farms has had it for years.all along the head land. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cuffy Posted May 13, 2018 Report Share Posted May 13, 2018 Marestail . Spread round ours like mad , New stuff grows from the broken bits as well . Roseate did the job but you need to bruise the plants before/during spraying every 2 weeks . Took the best part of 2 years to clear and still the odd bit pops up . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happy.plinker Posted May 13, 2018 Report Share Posted May 13, 2018 Jim McColl of the Beechgrove garden put on rubber gloves then put a sock on each hand and dipped them into a bucket of round-up and gripped each plant and stroked upwards, he said the gloves rub of the waxy stuff and the round-up goes in then. I really saw this it was not a dream!? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
figgy Posted May 14, 2018 Report Share Posted May 14, 2018 Bet that brings back some memories for a few , now wheres Davyo's young lad he liked socks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ditchman Posted May 14, 2018 Report Share Posted May 14, 2018 (edited) 19 hours ago, JDog said: Yes horse tail or mares tail, Hippuris vulgaris. As has been said very difficult to get rid of. It is an ancient plant, fossils of which are often found in coal deposits. horse tail...an indicator of poor drainage.......and as jdog says a relation of what formed most of our coal deposits...except that genus was belived to be 30-50ft high...the reason why coal formed (so im told) is because the flora grew fell down and laid there but didnt rot away as fungi and stuff wernt present to rot away the fallen flora as the bugs and stuff wernt sufficantly advanced to deal with it EDIT just checked my plant book and as i said previous 30-50ft tall (some genus)...described as a "living fossil" (like me)...growth height 30metres ...not 30ft.. Edited May 14, 2018 by ditchman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mickyh Posted May 14, 2018 Report Share Posted May 14, 2018 18 hours ago, JDog said: The 'rhubarb looking stuff' may well be Gunnera. Im sure I caught that when I was a Teenager ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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