tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5223294603002782762.post1412334682265754824..comments2024-03-04T20:37:43.516-08:00Comments on Noel's Garden Blog: The aliens might be coming Noel Kingsburyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09443137231998907024noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5223294603002782762.post-31876196917315830022014-07-30T05:59:07.838-07:002014-07-30T05:59:07.838-07:00Do you know this song?
The Return Of The Giant H...Do you know this song? <br /><br />The Return Of The Giant Hogweed<br />Genesis (1971)<br /><br />Turn and run<br />Nothing can stop them<br />Around every river and canal their<br />Power is growing<br />Stamp them out<br />We must destroy them<br />They infiltrate each city with their thick dark warning odour<br />They are invincible<br />They seem immune to all our herbicidal battering<br /><br />Long ago in the Russian hills<br />A Victorian explorer found the regal Hogweed by a marsh<br />He captured it and brought it home<br />Botanical creature stirs, seeking revenge<br />Royal beast did not forget<br />He came home to London<br />And made a present of the Hogweed to the Royal Gardens at Kew<br /><br />Waste no time<br />They are approaching<br />Hurry now, we must protect ourselves and find some shelter<br />Strike by night<br />They are defenceless<br />They all need the sun to photosensitize their venom<br />Still they're invincible<br />Still they're immune to all our herbicidal battering<br /><br />Fashionable country gentlemen had some cultivated wild gardens<br />In which they innocently planted the Giant Hogweed throughout the land<br />Botanical creature stirs, seeking revenge<br />Royal beast did not forget<br />Soon they escaped, spreading their seed<br />Preparing for an onslaught<br />Threatening the human race<br /><br />Mighty Hogweed is avenged<br />Human bodies soon will know anger<br />Kill them with your Hogweed hairs<br />Heracleum Mantegazziani<br /><br />;)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5223294603002782762.post-4452272786597037022014-07-22T09:22:22.053-07:002014-07-22T09:22:22.053-07:00Poor Jen, I guess some idiot used sodium chlorate ...Poor Jen, I guess some idiot used sodium chlorate to try and kill the knotweed. There are plenty of excellent herbicides such as glyphosate that leave NO residues.<br />I am ahead of you Noel I read Ken Thompson's wonderful book last month, could not put it down,.It helped to consolidate a lot of my own feelings which are ones of increasing sympathy for none native plants.<br />Loved the superponticum pics, almost identical to my own when I posted about this lovely plant- or weed depending on your point of viewRoger Brook - No Dig Gardenerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16210160273591839142noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5223294603002782762.post-2982816682995031582014-07-22T08:16:23.339-07:002014-07-22T08:16:23.339-07:00I'm currently trying to rescue a garden I plan...I'm currently trying to rescue a garden I planted last year where half the plants are suffering from herbicide injury, most likely from something persisting in the soil after knotweed treatment 3 years ago. I'm sure the treatment was necessary, but it's still bloody depressing. Ironically, considering Ken Thompson's hatchet job on permaculture (perhaps he should have stopped at "I just don't get it"), I first came across the idea that our attitude to invasive plants would benefit from reconsidering the ecological reasons for why they establish so aggressively and what useful functions they may have, in the permaculture movement, particularly Masanobu Fukuoka. Here's a book from that side of the divide http://www.invasiveplantmedicine.com/<br /><br />It may alienate some because the guy has a scruffy beard and talks about gaia, but look past that and he's making a lot of the same points. I have sympathy and find a lot of use for both the scientific/ academic approach to things, and the intuitive/ mystical/ hippy tendencies. Ever hopeful that plant(and planet)loving people can get past the distractions of cultural differences.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13935336969182722359noreply@blogger.com