We got a letter in the post from the council this week. The weed inspector had visited our property and found us in wanting. There were patches of uncontrolled noxious weeds -- blackberry, cineria, sweet briar and bridal creeper. For a while I felt miffed, couldn't they see all the hard work we have put into beating down the huge thickets of blackberry ... crikey the little bits that are left are just a fraction of keeping the big patches under control. As for the sweet briar I knew it had to go ... but I liked its flowers and didn't understand it was a formal noxious weed. Now for the cineria, after a web search I found it was the y ellow dandelion type plant I was mulling over whether it was a weed or not -- I hadn't managed to identify it to know. I was leaning towards it being a weed, but again had no idea it was a BAD weed. As for bridal creeper, again I had to search the web to see what I would be looking for. Armed with thi...
Clandulla, Kandos and surrounds