Green Alkanet. The overview. Spreads quickly via the rhizome or spores and creates dense stands of foliage. You will find plenty of caterpillars there who will feed on their leaves as they contain more juices than other plants.In fact it will keep snails and Slugs also away from your other plants as they will preferably eat these. Green alkanet keeps popping up in my garden - it was there before I converted it to a vegetable garden To date, I have been cutting it off at ground level, leaving the leaves there to contribute to mulching efforts but I have left the roots intact. I do everything I can to get the whole root (and mine were very established due … Hi, I'm helping a friend sort the garden out and we identified a flower/weed? Perennial, member of the Boraginaceae Family. Prefers shaded, damp areas. We want to keep some of it but despite a lot of digging, it keeps coming back where we don't want it. Native to south-west France, and the Iberian Peninsula, but is now naturalised throughout the British Isles. The Forget-me-nots are difficult to tell apart, seeField Forget-me-not, also Green Alkanet which has similar flowers. If you let it go to seed you will end up with a garden full of it. Horsetail is a deep-rooted native perennial with fast growing rhizomes. I think so. Follow these links for further details on Weeds , Weed Removal and Weed Prevention . Give it a nice round 7 or even 8 and watch the horsetail go away. Thank you. It is also rather prickly and can sting like nettles. Most gardeners are aware of the problems caused by weeds, but there are garden plants - readily available to buy - that have the potential to become a nuisance. as green alkanet. (7 Posts) Add message | Report. Common Name: Field Horsetail / Common Horsetail Latin name: Equisetum arvense In Detail. It has long and tenacious roots. No, if you want to get rid of horsetail you shouldn't try to dig it up: that won't work, at all at all. Yes, it's pretty and the bees love it but it's taking over the garden. Your leaves are slightly more pointy than mine but if it's sort of spiky and abrasive then it's geen alkanet. You keep the herbal plant Green Alkanet (considered by many as weed as it is a opportunity plant who loves damp places). We have been trying to get all of the roots out but it keeps popping up. Green Alkanet - recognition and treatment Does anyone have experience of trying to get rid of this? Is Round-up or something similar my only way to get rid of it? It was a terrible problem here, but I dug loads up early last year and it's significantly reduced. Here's a link so you can see a picture Nasty invasive stuff with a long tap root that is impossible to completely remove and fine spiky hairs that go right through my gardening gloves. You want to reduce soil acidity. 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