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Chicapah

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Topic: Genesis was right. It's here.
Posted: August 04 2015 at 15:33

http://www.wilx.com/home/headlines/Dangerous-Plant-Found-In-Calhoun-County-320577442.html

Hide the kids

"Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value" - Mark Twain

Michael678 View Drop Down

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Posted: August 04 2015 at 17:07

LOL hope the people there are going to be alright after this

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Posted: August 04 2015 at 17:30

There's another Hogweed - Genesis thread here somewhere.....can't recall which forum it's on.

oh...it's in the 'just for fun forum'...but the link to there wouldn't work...go figure.

http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=103456"

Edited by dr wu23 - August 04 2015 at 17:41

One does nothing yet nothing is left undone.
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Posted: August 04 2015 at 19:07

I've got sympathy for the kids who have been injured. But I was thinking "Well if you've had listened to Genesis instead of whatever else you listened to..." Tongue

RockHound

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Posted: August 04 2015 at 21:26

They do have an article on what to do , but they omit the most vital information, such as where to buy Nursery Cryme and photos of Peter Gabriel's costumes.

I was further disturbed that the article did not point out the well reasoned case for eradication, not to mention the potentially life saving information in the lyrics.

And Genesis did have the class to include the proper name of the plant at the end of their brilliant discourse.

Edited by RockHound - August 04 2015 at 21:29

Tom Ozric

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Posted: August 05 2015 at 01:00

Heracleum Mantegazziani will kill them with their Hogweed hairs........
They have returned 🍃

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Posted: August 05 2015 at 01:06

Great

It's all the fault of those fashionable country gentlemen.

chopper

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Posted: August 05 2015 at 02:24

Moogtron III wrote:

Great

It's all the fault of those fashionable country gentlemen.

I think you mean the Victorian explorer.

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Posted: August 05 2015 at 03:41

chopper wrote:

Moogtron III wrote:

Great

It's all the fault of those fashionable country gentlemen.

I think you mean the Victorian explorer.

I also blame the Royal Gardens at Kew.

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Posted: August 05 2015 at 03:46

chopper wrote:

Moogtron III wrote:

Great

It's all the fault of those fashionable country gentlemen.

I think you mean the Victorian explorer.

Yes, but Lords collecting plants in their vast properties actually really helped in letting it expand

nothing new... My fave café was across the street from a residential waste land, colonized by the hogweeds. It's now all built up, but the weeding took special care and costed the promoter a fair bit (nothing compared to the building that took place, but still... an unwelcomed surprise cost)

what I don't understand is why they don't from exploring team to exterminate it. Get volunteers or ask people on the dole pay their expenses and a fair supplement, and get rid of that crap

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Posted: August 05 2015 at 04:59

Sean Trane wrote:

chopper wrote:

Moogtron III wrote:

Great

It's all the fault of those fashionable country gentlemen.

I think you mean the Victorian explorer.

Yes, but Lords collecting plants in their vast properties actually really helped in letting it expand

what I don't understand is why they don't from exploring team to exterminate it. Get volunteers or ask people on the dole pay their expenses and a fair supplement, and get rid of that crap

But obviously, get them to strike by night as they are defenceless. Wink

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Posted: August 05 2015 at 05:43

Very interesting indeed!

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Posted: August 05 2015 at 09:06

I now think the Hogweed must be saved. It has rights too, you know. Surely the Royal Gardens at Kew could set aside an entire pavilion dedicated exclusively to hogweed preservation.

Hmmm... What else could be grown in cultivated wild gardens?

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Posted: August 06 2015 at 14:15

We've had the bloody things in England since I was a kid growing up in Yorkshire in the 1950s/60s.

We had a huge one (about 15 foot tall) in the garden near our apple trees. I cut it down with an axe: thank Christ it didn't fall on me because I had no idea how dangerous they were. Next year there were dozens of smaller ones which we annihilated before they could seed.

One of my father's workmen stupidly pulled some small ones up with his bare hands and had no reaction immediately, but a few days later, he went out in bright sunshine and blisters sprouted everywhere. He had recurrent pain for several years.

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Posted: August 15 2015 at 07:00

I was out walking and listening to the song. The Return of the Giant Hogweed. At the same time as I saw a real one. Coincidence?

Master James of St. George.
Of the fields and the sky.
He used to build castles of stone, steel, and blood.
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Posted: August 18 2015 at 01:34

Turn and run!

I like to feel the suspense when you're certain you know I am there.....

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Posted: August 18 2015 at 02:50

RockHound wrote:

I now think the Hogweed must be saved. It has rights too, you know. Surely the Royal Gardens at Kew could set aside an entire pavilion dedicated exclusively to hogweed preservation.

Hmmm... What else could be grown in cultivated wild gardens?

I believe some sort of life must be eradicated , because they bring nothing good to normal life (and I don't buy they help set "nature's equilibrium") . Stuff like tiques and fleas, leaches, bloodsuckers, like most parasites, etc... can easily disppear for all I care. I mean, even if they were to bring something positive, their disadvantages or cons far outweigh the pros, that they can disappear from the face of the earth. Nature will adapt.

Same with plants: poison ivy or hogweed (why give it a capital h). OK, some of the plant's extracts or poison can be used for science or medical uses (anti-poisons maybe), but if it would be the case, than grow it in an closed-off environment where they can't escape anymore

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Posted: August 22 2015 at 17:38

Sean Trane wrote:

I believe some sort of life must be eradicated

This is precisely what Regal Hogweed thinks.

And what Botanical Creature wants, Botanical Creature should have.