Gunnera manicata and the RHS Defra ban

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  • Опубликовано: 2 фев 2025

Комментарии • 39

  • @patrickswan4537
    @patrickswan4537 11 месяцев назад +15

    Totally agree. Of all the issues in horticulture for the RHS to put their weight behind, this beaurocratic absurdity isn't one of them.

  • @DebbieinNWiltshire
    @DebbieinNWiltshire 10 месяцев назад +10

    Totally agree and great clarity provided Charles.. it is complete madness. Mine has not spread.. and the advice on the leaves just doesn’t make sense.

  • @brocktoon8
    @brocktoon8 11 месяцев назад +9

    Absolute madness!!!! But I am relieved you don't have to destroy these marvellous plants and they can carry on where they are. Couldn't agree with you more about this complete nonsense!

  • @bloggalot4718
    @bloggalot4718 10 месяцев назад +5

    I also agree, I have grown this plant for many years and it is not invasive in my garden. Are they going to ban bamboo which is more invasive?

  • @EverydayKindaGuy
    @EverydayKindaGuy 11 месяцев назад +4

    A fine example of bureaucracy.

  • @johnlord3374
    @johnlord3374 5 месяцев назад

    Very informative and practical. Just shows you exactly what you need to know and no beating around the bush, except for the hacking of the Gunnera of course.

  • @TheFloorface
    @TheFloorface 10 месяцев назад +2

    im very thankful i managed to get hold of one right before the ban but i hope they'll rethink it soon. its an amazing plant and there really doesnt seem to be any risk to keeping them.

  • @matt_powell_gardener
    @matt_powell_gardener 10 месяцев назад +2

    Well said. You are quite right. I've grown then all my life and they've never spread. The ban is a load of rubbish

  • @GeorgesJungleGarden
    @GeorgesJungleGarden 11 месяцев назад +6

    Great to the point vid and echoes many of the points I made in a vid before Christmas. I’m happy to be enlightened further but as a gardener, this certainly seems a case of a complete overreaction without sufficient evidence or research. I take on board the hybridisation and also acknowledge the genuine invasive problems caused by tinctoria but like you, haven’t seen any evidence of the x cryptica hybrid actually causing any problems. Not a single one of the 100 ish comments on my video have either!

    • @RichardABW
      @RichardABW 10 месяцев назад

      From what Charles says it sounds like this is the mechanism (banned parent) by which the EU will ban a child hybrid plant. In the EU every decision made seems to be the result of a mathematical formula, without any pragmatism.

  • @mark25964
    @mark25964 10 месяцев назад

    I recently tried to buy the floating plant water hyacinth but couldn't find them anywhere,when I looked it up I found the sale of them has been banned for the same reason.Its indigenous to the amazon and many growers in britain have unsuccessfully tried to overwinter them, this was an eu blanket ban.

  • @plantrevelations
    @plantrevelations 10 месяцев назад +3

    Madness! I think it will probably be reversed in 10 years time. Hopefully along with the need for plant passports within the UK!

    • @RichardABW
      @RichardABW 10 месяцев назад +1

      Fingers crossed.

  • @DJSupaflyguy
    @DJSupaflyguy 10 месяцев назад +4

    Exactly it’s a joke, they’ve probably found THC in them.🤔😂

  • @DJ-uk5mm
    @DJ-uk5mm 4 месяца назад +1

    lol. It always makes me laugh when bureaucrats decide to legislate against plants. I remember all the fuss about opium been grown in Afghanistan and seeing pictures of poppy fields being trashed, by American and British forces… in order to allegedly, stop the dreadful international heroin trade. It’s always surprised me, as without it there would be no morphine for cancer,patients or operations. or people in the pain of the last stage of life. secondly, you could walk into any garden centre in Britain and buy the seeds of the opium poppy to plant in your garden with no problems. The fact that all of these prescribed plants have been around for many millions of years before humans even existed, seems to be lost on these bureaucrats, what a crazy world we live in

  • @cherylsapcote7327
    @cherylsapcote7327 11 месяцев назад +4

    I had no idea that it was invasive ? I have never seen it invading a. A chance would be a fine thing for it in a suburban garden? Needs space. Children will be broken hearted about this. Always special to them in parks and large gardens and places open to the public. RHS not making sense here. The leaf advice also makes no sense.

    • @brocktoon8
      @brocktoon8 11 месяцев назад +1

      It's not invasive. He's had the same patch since 1902 and it hasn't spread anywhere.

    • @Tminus89
      @Tminus89 10 месяцев назад

      Indeed, he explained why it isn't, yet here you are 😋

    • @cherylsapcote7327
      @cherylsapcote7327 10 месяцев назад

      @@Tminus89 Rude?

    • @Tminus89
      @Tminus89 10 месяцев назад

      ​@@cherylsapcote7327 Not listening to the man? Indeed 😋

    • @cherylsapcote7327
      @cherylsapcote7327 10 месяцев назад

      @@Tminus89 I totally agree with Charles here.

  • @EddyFeyen
    @EddyFeyen 8 месяцев назад

    Totally agree

  • @RichardABW
    @RichardABW 10 месяцев назад

    So we haven't yet properly left the EU. Divergence on this and other madness needed.

  • @WoodlandT
    @WoodlandT 5 месяцев назад

    Ridiculous over regulation, I don’t understand it

  • @sams6484
    @sams6484 10 месяцев назад +4

    Giant gonorrhea😂😅😅😅😅

  • @christianrieben3142
    @christianrieben3142 9 месяцев назад +3

    (grumble, grumble, blames Europe) You voted for Brexit, ostensibly to free yourself of Brussels bureaucracy, yet here you are still subject to absurd bureaucratic vagaries, albeit £140 billion worse off

    • @DecimusTheThinker
      @DecimusTheThinker 8 месяцев назад +2

      Get over it Christian.

    • @mn4169
      @mn4169 7 месяцев назад +2

      How do know what he voted in Brexit? That was an assumption on your part and frankly it was uncalled for. He is explaining the illogical ban contra the plants nature and history.

  • @ourfloridagarden4191
    @ourfloridagarden4191 4 месяца назад

    WTH. Do better RHS.