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    weed ID please: horses are eating it




    For a friend. I said it was dock, she doesn't think it is. She says it's not like the other docks growing in the field.

    I haven't seen it in the flesh, I'll be taking a look tomorrow. Just wondered if any of you has a 2nd opinion?


    (I suspect it looks different to the other docks, because they're flowering and this one isn't yet)
    Last edited by Two_Sheds; 13-06-2013, 02:57 PM.
    All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.
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  • #2
    Looks like a dock to me
    There are one or two different types...
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    • #3
      Looks like dock to me, too.

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      • #4
        I'd have said dock too. Its hard to think of other wild plants with big leathery leaves apart from the docks, sorrels and horseradish.

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        • #5
          Yeah, I'd discounted sorrel and horseradish, the leaves are too dull & matt
          All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.

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          • #6
            Looks like dock to me too. There's the beginnings of a flowering shoot in that picture.

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            • #7
              I wonder if there are any nettles close by?
              Last edited by Mikey; 13-06-2013, 03:22 PM.
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              • #8
                I'd say Dock, too.
                All the best - Glutton 4 Punishment
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                • #9
                  Another vote for dock but it is a little different from the usual one with those pointed leaves.

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                  • #10
                    Pretty sure we've got some just like it on the part of our lottie that we haven't yet got to.

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                    • #11
                      A selection of dock leaves from the garden. All shapes and sizes - some pointed, some rounded, some coming to flower, others not.

                      I think the originals look different because they are wilted and have darkened.
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                      • #12
                        A vote for dock from me too.
                        Gardening requires a lot of water - most of it in the form of perspiration. Lou Erickson, critic and poet

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                        • #13
                          I guess that's decided then!
                          All the best - Glutton 4 Punishment
                          Freelance shrub butcher and weed removal operative.

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                          • #14
                            thanks all

                            I'll show this thread to my new friend, put her mind at ease.
                            All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.

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                            • #15
                              I agree, it looks like dock, but I've never known a horse eat dock before. Are they definitely eating it?
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