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Please help identify this plant!
MrsBartolozzi
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HI, I've had this plant in the garden since we moved in and I've never liked it - it smells awful, like something poisonous or dead. I had always assumed, since the previous owners were great gardeners, that it was a bona fide plant and just left it.
I now want to just dig it up, but am not sure whether I need to take precautions (if it's poisonous etc) and, as it spreads by putting roots out sideways whether there are other things I need to be concerned with so it doesn't come back.
So many thanks for your help in identifying this.
It is quite low growing and useful (?) as ground cover if that's a help.
I now want to just dig it up, but am not sure whether I need to take precautions (if it's poisonous etc) and, as it spreads by putting roots out sideways whether there are other things I need to be concerned with so it doesn't come back.
So many thanks for your help in identifying this.
It is quite low growing and useful (?) as ground cover if that's a help.
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Oh god, sorry, it's huge. I am trying to crop it!!
Ok, just joined Photobucket and the pictures of the plant are here:
http://s1239.photobucket.com/albums/ff511/Mrsbartolozzi/plant/
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Houttunia, Hate the stuff, its like mint and will take over if left. I think the think I dislike the most is the vile smell of their roots.I'd rather be an Optimist and be proved wrong than a Pessimist and be proved right.0
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peter_the_piper wrote: »Houttunia, Hate the stuff, its like mint and will take over if left. I think the think I dislike the most is the vile smell of their roots.
Provided you keep in under control, I quite like it! Pretty foliage - and mine doens't smell at all!ELITE 5:2
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peter_the_piper wrote: »Houttunia, Hate the stuff, its like mint and will take over if left. I think the think I dislike the most is the vile smell of their roots.
Thank you, that's it, and I hate the smell too! It might just be the roots but I can smell it whenever I get near it. Right, now to get rid.
I read that it's hard to eradicate because it is rhizomeous (is that even a word?) so manual labour is probably in order
. It smells so bad. I'll give it some glyphosphate and see how that goes.
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That should do the trick. Used to grow a fair bit of it, always got Mother-in-Law to pot up. They're useful for somethings.MrsBartolozzi wrote: »Thank you, that's it, and I hate the smell too! It might just be the roots but I can smell it whenever I get near it. Right, now to get rid.
I read that it's hard to eradicate because it is rhizomeous (is that even a word?) so manual labour is probably in order. It smells so bad. I'll give it some glyphosphate and see how that goes.I'd rather be an Optimist and be proved wrong than a Pessimist and be proved right.0
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