What?

Being northern or the floods?

Ha ha very funny I meant the floods you southerner

Dads a bloody northener!!


No the floods are quite bad, a young soldier from Catterick died in a river, and loads of houses have been flooded.

Oh thats awful (not your dad being a northerner lol). I wasnt that far north but know the area well due to work.

Seems like there's been rain everywhere! The flooding in both Spain and the UK has been very bad.

I think my hay fever is caused by "cow parsley". Matt, is this the correct name? I used to get symptoms many years ago, and noticed a return this spring (with evidence of this plant on the verges). It's twice the size in Spain/Portugal, and I was told it can produce a nasty rash, if touched.

Carol

Cow parsley can be mistaken for a very nasty plant, hemlock, it is scarily similar.

thanks Matt!

Its why you should always leave all Umbelliferae alone, some are absolutely deadly!

I got a prescription off an old doctor once for stomch problems, and the Pharmacist laughed, saying it was the first time he had made it up, it had deadly nightshade in it
It worked though

Its the whole homeopathic theory.

One of the best heart drugs out, Digitalis, comes from Foxgloves, a plant that will kill you.

Matt, I see you are clicking between threads, so here's a google search for cow parsley:
http://www.gardenorganic.org.uk/orga...eed.php?id=115
and, umbelliferae:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umbelliferae

Carol

yeah, thanks. not 100% sure why but thanks

Alos Giant Hogweed is similar, and produces a very severe rash, and makes the area very light sensitive.

Area I used to live was just across the road from a river, and that exact area is now on Flood Watch. It's a very specific area, and has flooded recently.

Yeah, its phototoxic, and will take over very quickly