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Liza6
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Dovefromabove
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edited June 2022
Think that’s a Tansy … Tanacetum vulgare.
https://www.prettywildseeds.co.uk/product/yellow-tansy-tanacetum-vulgare-perennial-seeds-1578#:~:text=Tanacetum%20vulgare%20or%20%27Tansy%27%20is%20a%20native%2C%20perennial,giving%20the%20flower%20heads%20a%20button%20like%20appearance.
Do the leaves smell when you crush them?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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nutcutlet
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looks like Ragwort to me. Keep an eye open for the Cinnabar caterpillars
In the sticks near Peterborough
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Liza6
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Is it worth keeping ? Do they spread
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Loraine3
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No and yes. Ragwort is a noxious weed and needs destroying, if it's Tansy it spreads and is not really suitable for a garden.
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Liza6
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Just checked - no the leaves don't smell at all
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Busy-Lizzie
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Then it isn't Tansy. Looks like Ragwort. It's poisonous and a killer for horses. Wear gloves and dig it up. It seeds like mad.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
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Silver surfer
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Agree.....Jacobaea vulgaris
, previously called
Senecio jacobaea...common name Ragwort.
Pulls up easily.
Perthshire. SCOTLAND .
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Bee witched
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It's a great bee plant ..... just saying
https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/wildlife-explorer/wildflowers/common-ragwort
Bee x
Gardener and beekeeper in beautiful Scottish Borders
A single bee creates just one twelfth of a teaspoon of honey in her lifetime
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Slow-worm
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It's our legal duty to dig ragwort up if it's on our land, because it's so toxic - to everything except the cinnabar caterpillars. Horrible stuff.
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bcpathome
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Get rid PDQ
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
In the sticks near Peterborough
https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/wildlife-explorer/wildflowers/common-ragwort
Bee x
A single bee creates just one twelfth of a teaspoon of honey in her lifetime