Charlie Dimmock Planting Mares Tail?!

[shivvy]

I have just seen a programme called Garden Rescue and Charlie Dimmock planted mares tail into a pond. Is mares tail not highly invasive?

[douglas9401]

I think it is but the whole point of the programme is not horticultural but in fact just a vehicle for inane clichés and the bit where the two pretty boys pretend to hide and have a completely unscripted convo, reprising the standard guff that's transformed a weedy back yard into an oasis of calm.

Or something.

[douglas9401]

Oh, and I know what needs a makeover and it ain't the jardin.

[ummmm]

I'm not a gardener but being in a small pond wouldn't that limit what it invades?

[Mamyalynne]

The aquatic plant is different to the invasive weed you are thinking of.

https://www.puddleplants.co.uk/product/mares-tail-hippuris-vulgaris/

[douglas9401]

I doubt it ummmm, it bursts through tarmac, concrete, "weed suppressing" sheets and finds any gap in paving.

[douglas9401]

Unless it's a different plant of course. :)

[ummmm]

Lol :-)

[shivvy]

Ah, that explains it Mamyalynne! Thanks.

[Tilly2]

Charlie knows what she's doing.

[Chipchopper]

Not all mares tail is highly invasive, in fact the aquatic one that Charlie planted is quite well behaved.

It makes a brilliant pot scourer if you're out camping.

[Mamyalynne]

Glad if I helped.

Common names can cause confusion.