Giant Hogweed 2025

2017

  • August 29th One By the boat 50cm high
  • August 5th N1: One on the drain side of the bund some 45yds before the breach
  • July 1st W1:
    Further emails led me to check for the stray plant again. This time I managed to climb some tree to get pictures but still found nought.
    bund south from boat
    bund south from boat
    Picture above.
    I found the common hogweed (heads in bucket below) between the two shrubs; a slight lightening of the reeds from the more forward shrub shows where I passed.
  • June 26th W1:
    Call from Hugh Tyler to let me know someone saw a single giant hogweed, 50m downstream from the boat:

    June 29th W1: I only found a normal sized common hogweed, picture of flower heads taken: to the right.

    hogweed head
  • in willow carr and two along the western boundary with Okel Tor
  • April 22nd NI: Walk length and found none, but see Northern Bund post.
  • April 22nd W1: 11 just north of boat
  • April 26th W2: 0!A little distracted

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