The owner and operator of Designs by Nature – U.P. Native Plants, Michelle Wietek-Stephens, says this can actually be harmful ...

While tansy ragwort belongs to the same family as the common daisy (Asteraceae) and even looks very similar, this ...

RAGWORT HAS always been a curse of livestock farmers, with it's green shoots and yellow flower proving toxic to cattle and horses, yet despite proving lethal if consumed either fresh or wilted, it ...

IAM afraid that Mrs Eileen Eastham, who reported the presence of the poisonous weed, ragwort (LET, August 11) is, to put it politely, "blowing into the wind." One plant less will do little for the ...

IN less enlightened times the fairies of the Highlands and Islands were reputed to ride around on sticks of ragwort (Letters, September 12 & 17). Then in the 16th and 17th centuries witches also ...

HORSE OWNERS have been warned to lookout for and remove Ragwort growing in their fields, given the toxic risk it poses to horses. The British Horse Society is raising awareness of the common ...

As gardeners, we want to see as much beneficial wildlife in our outside space as possible – and bees provide us with not only the feelings of a healthy garden but also hope that we’ve more chance of a ...

Horse owner Kate Tompkins is worried the spread of ragwort weed could pose a threat to her animals. Mrs Tompkins keeps three horses at her home in Fulwell Road, Finmere, near Bicester, and is ...

A NEW call for action to control a lethal weed, which claims the lives of ponies, has been made in the New Forest. Colonel Peter Sweet told a meeting of the New Forest Committee at Lyndhurst, that ...

Renegade gardeners across the world are embracing a new philosophy: gardening that prioritises insects, not plants.

Fears over livestock poisoning have prompted farming leaders in Norfolk to demand action from the county council to remove a large bloom of ragwort from the roadside. The yellow-flowered plant is ...

Will Mr Busby disclose the source of any blanket requirement for the control of ragwort, rabbits and verges? I repeat my assertion of last year that when there was an abundance of working horses ...