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Once a beauty, beastly giant hogweed plant can burn you

by Alex Alvarez | 12:25 pm, July 6th, 2011 Fox News ran a segment today on “hogweed,” a menacing weed that will eat your young, strangle your puppies, delete your TiVo'd shows and bluntly inform you that you look fat in those jeans. Kidding, possibly. A monster plant with white flowers in the shape of [...]

Green monster

A WAR on weeds is under way in the Borders targeting the pesky invasive foreign plants the Giant hogweed and the Japanese knotweed. The sprawling plants are a blight along river banks and on farmland. And the Giant Hogweed carries a poisonous, Kirklees Council says giant hogweed, which resembles cow parsley, has been found in [...]