unable to identify most weeds until areas of the garden have been
overtaken by them I've been trying to cross-check some of my suspects
against the entires in the "gardening expert" and am finding it
difficult.

I found this -

http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/PMG/weeds_all.html

- which looks good but without the picture gallery, cross-checking
could be a life's work.

Does anyone know of a web page that will do the job for me?

thanks for any pointers..

In message , lid
writes
unable to identify most weeds until areas of the garden have been
overtaken by them I've been trying to cross-check some of my suspects
against the entires in the "gardening expert" and am finding it
difficult.

I found this -

http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/PMG/weeds_all.html

- which looks good but without the picture gallery, cross-checking
could be a life's work.

Only good if you live in California. The overlap with British weeds
isn't particularly large, and even when the species is a weed in Britain
we don't always use the same name.

Does anyone know of a web page that will do the job for me?

thanks for any pointers..

--
Stewart Robert Hinsley

On Thu, 17 Jun 2010 09:07:55 +0100, Stewart Robert Hinsley
wrote:

In message , lid
writes
unable to identify most weeds until areas of the garden have been
overtaken by them I've been trying to cross-check some of my suspects
against the entires in the "gardening expert" and am finding it
difficult.

I found this -

http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/PMG/weeds_all.html

- which looks good but without the picture gallery, cross-checking
could be a life's work.

Only good if you live in California. The overlap with British weeds
isn't particularly large, and even when the species is a weed in Britain
we don't always use the same name.

I didn't think to check - thanks for the warning.

Does anyone know of a web page that will do the job for me?

thanks for any pointers..

On Thu, 17 Jun 2010 08:46:46 +0100, Jake
wrote:

On Thu, 17 Jun 2010 08:55:12 +0200, bob wrote:

unable to identify most weeds until areas of the garden have been
overtaken by them I've been trying to cross-check some of my suspects
against the entires in the "gardening expert" and am finding it
difficult.

I found this -

http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/PMG/weeds_all.html

- which looks good but without the picture gallery, cross-checking
could be a life's work.

Does anyone know of a web page that will do the job for me?

thanks for any pointers..


If you really want to know everything, then

http://www.dgsgardening.btinternet.co.uk/weeds.htm

is the most comprehensive list on the web that I know of (though
others may know more). There's a list of weeds organised by growth
pattern (which helps to thin the selection a bit) on the right of the
page. Downside is that you need to click on a weed in that list to see
the picture - you can't look at a page full of just pics.

John

that looks just the job - many thanks..

bob wrote in message ...
On Thu, 17 Jun 2010 09:07:55 +0100, Stewart Robert Hinsley
wrote:

In message , lid
writes
unable to identify most weeds until areas of the garden have been
overtaken by them I've been trying to cross-check some of my suspects
against the entires in the "gardening expert" and am finding it
difficult.

I found this -

http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/PMG/weeds_all.html

- which looks good but without the picture gallery, cross-checking
could be a life's work.

Only good if you live in California. The overlap with British weeds
isn't particularly large, and even when the species is a weed in Britain
we don't always use the same name.

I didn't think to check - thanks for the warning.
...
You may have to learn the hard way what is a weed and is not by letting them
come up and finding out what they are with a book at first.
That's how I learnt, anyway.

I can now identify a weed with two leaves on ;-)
I don't think there is an easy way by looking at websites.
Tina