A magnificent plant incredible for pollinators but I’ve spoken to people who have touched it and suffered for years 😮

Thanks for the reminder

What month would you harvest the seeds please

Just been on a canoe trip with my son on the River Waveney Suffolk & saw some of this. I had an idea it was hemlock but used Google lens & was none the wiser after to be honest!

Fortuitous timing on this video. I think I may have spotted a giant hogweed in flower on a towpath in outer London last weekend. If I can identify it properly next time I'm up there (probably this coming weekend) I can report it and get it removed before it sets seed.

Thanks.

Really useful thanks - hogweed is delicious!

I used to work on a golf course 20 year's ago and we had to use strimmers to keep the weeds down in the summer. I was always covered in blisters. The head groundsman said I must have been allergic to something. I proved him wrong after other groundsmen started to get the same blisters. Amazing what a bit of knowledge can do. 👍

This made me think, there's a song about giant hogweed i heard back in the day, i'm sure its a Genesis track.

It's all over the UK..

Inadvertently strimmed this once, yeah you don't a second time. Horrible stuff.

Do both species of hogweed hybridize with each other commonly? Atomic Shrimp showcased a strange specimen a while ago (plant identification app video, around 7 minutes and 10 seconds in) which was exceptionally tall for common hogweed, but didn't quite look like giant hogweed.

Just wanted to let people know, ~The Blisters can last longer than 5years!! I got burnt by Giant Hogweed in my Late Teens, ~ I'm almost 60 years now. Since then, every time I allow Sunshine on my skin, the painful Blisters reappear!! Seriously it's a nasty plant, but I'm glad to see that people are learning more about it now!! (*When I got burned, there was no information about it!!) Namasté 🙏🕊️💞🌟 Andréa and Critters. ...XxX...

Recently Spotted this in Cumbria UK!! Will be Reporting it again and have it Professionally Removed!! ~Thank you so much for sharing This, because the Burns can come back every time we are out in the Sun!! Namasté 🙏🕊️💞🌟 Andréa and Critters. ...XxX....

Rhubarb?

Well timed.. Thanks you..

Great video.... shame you didnt put a hand over the giant one. My mum was gobsmacked when i showed pic of it then one with my hand over leaf lol. Its very aptly described. Giant.😊

That explains it. We have this stuff everywhere in Yorkshire and I thought it was Elderflower, so I went up to it, picked it and smelled it. Then later that night I had the biggest head ache and lost hearing in one of my ears for a few hours.

Hi. How similar are the flowers to Elderflowers? Great video, thank you 😁

Very informative, thanks 👍

I have entire fields of this that grow near me, they seem to go from nothing to 6 foot in a week!

Great video thank you I'll be showing my kids this

Wow. I had no idea there were even two kinds. Your videos are so informative and you are so calm. Do you offer in-person lessons either to a group setting or one on one?

Almost looks like hemlock. Are they similar?

I feel for thise using weedwackers that dont know about this xD

😮😮very poisones

Y'all got deadly nightshade, we got tasty poke berries and poke leaves bred for millenia to eat

If we are using the leaves for tea is it ok to use ones from the plants in flower? Wouldn't the boiling water melt the crystals or cause them to end up at the bottom of the cup?

Why is it called cordial, not squash? What is the difference?

Where is that forest and name I want to go?

Had those burns as a child. They came from direct contact with the juice coming from a cut stem (thick one). This is a very strong and invasive plant. Killing it is not easy.

Another reason I always go hiking in long trousers.

This is an excerpt, folks, of Lewis's new documentary, "The Forage of the Triffids", 👀 ... 😂.

It is an impressive plant, like a triffid They do grow to enormous heights, stay well away.

The toxins in giant hogweed inhibit your skins ability to protect against UV rays, which is what causes the blisters. Basically, you are getting second degree burns because of it. This and hemlock are two plants I’ve taught my eldest about in great depth.

In awe at the size of this lad

When I was a kid there was an alert to all the local schools one summer because some kids got severe burns from the sap (it was a very hot summer which apparently made it more potent than usual). Shame they don't teach this stuff in schools. Might have saved those kids from a nasty experience.

Pigeon for scale.

I've had dreams about this plant three times this year so far and I don't know why

As a child I saw 8ft + hogweed all the time. Also seen the results of the blisters.

Yes, a farmer shouted a lecture at me on hog weed when I was walking through a field as a kid and scared the s*it out of me though to his credit I've never forgotten that lecture!!!😅

How often can you water Herb Robert's?

Thank you so much! Lily of the valley is super common here in Finland, and we learn not to touch it as children already. I've been wanting to get into foraging and know we also have wild garlic somewhere near where I live, but I've been too unsure to go looking. This was very concise and simple!

An interesting Fact,,,(*Depending, I suppose!!) Those Wild Strawberries are a New Wild Variety!! The Wild Strawberries we used to pick, have a less rounded fruit. Rather than the more pointed berry, , like the Wild Alpine Strawberry,,, which were very sweet, creamy and much sweeter-smelling,,, than this New Wild Strawberry!! We used to pick the Original, Wild strawberries along the old disused railway tracks, dry,sndy soil. but these rounded fruits are now more common and apparently an unexpected new type, nd can grow in long grass, with much damper conditions. Possibly theyre due to cross-breeding with garden varieties, although not quite s nice,,, ~ they still taste better than them bought from the Supermarkets though!! If I can find the link,to the article later, Ill leave it here. ...XxX...

Have you ever found wild asparagus any chance of a video on that please

I really appreciate your breakdown of the part parts

?- Herbalist here & I Specialize in Parasite Cleansing and am wondering if I could swap clove for Aven Rhizome in my recipe as they both contain Eugenol 🤔 I'd much rather use an Herb I Handcraft vs Cloves I must purchase elsewhere. .thoughts??

My plant's leaves look like barren strawberry, the flowers look like wild strawberry and it makes some average size fruit and some tiny ones. It sprung up by itself from discarded store bought strawberry.

Just found out first milkcaps of the year here in Scotland. I "think" they are false saffron milkcaps, but I'm not 100% sure. Other than the scrobiculations, are there any other defining features?

Do ribwort plantains go really bitter once they're slightly past their best? The ones in my garden started flowering several weeks ago, I just found out they're edible (and that they're not a type of grass, I tried them both raw and cooked, and they're not good. Maybe they would've been lovely a few weeks ago? Or does it just take a while for my palate to adjust to new foods that are significantly different from anything I've had before? Never mind taste. The texture is not good. It's tough and hairy. I feel like I'm chewing on a rat's tail. I know I have sensory issues, but I didn't realise some people tolerate textures THAT bad. I don't think I'm likely to try these again.