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Worrying stuff! https://www.theguardian.com/environment ... tiful-home
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Nimrod103 wrote:Yes, sale in the UK should be banned, along with several other invasive plants. But surely glyphosate would deal with the problem?
bungeejumper wrote:Nimrod103 wrote:Yes, sale in the UK should be banned, along with several other invasive plants. But surely glyphosate would deal with the problem?
I suspect that the time for a ban would have been in the Victorian era. (When there were crazes for other deadly colonial exotics such as thorn apples, whose seeds can survive for 100 years. As I once found out.)
The article points out that not all bamboos are suspect. We had a clumping Victorian bamboo in our garden which was easy to dig up and destroy. But the running varieties are destructive, and apparently too deep and vigorous for most weedkillers.
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DrFfybes wrote:Our problem here is Aspen shoots from the council woodland next door. They planted them about 10 years ago, there must be clumps of 30-50 in places, and large ones off runners 20m from the original planting. We're getting shoots all over our lawn no, up to 50m from the woodland and approaching the house. We have informed them.
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