Bettina, I would remove it in Spring; I had hedgehogs hibernating in mine, which thankfully I discovered before I removed it.
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RicePudding, the articles say itâs a big problem in Nouvelle Aquitaine. I donât know which parts, because Iâve travelled across this vast region and done many a nature walk in all the various departments, and Iâve only come across it in peoplesâ gardens. Bamboo on the other hand!
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Same here. Following an invitation to go see some friends in Paris several years ago, I bought a bunch of chrysanths. We took the metro with some of their family, me clutching my bouquet. No-one looked at or mentioned the flowers. And especially when we reached their apartment⊠I decided to say nothing. Iâm older and wiser now !
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Japanese knotweed was rampant everywhere back in my old Breton commune, no one seemed to care and when we found some in the garden, hacked it to death, burned it with a blowtorch and then covered it in concrete - worked a treat.
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I once spent a weekend chopping out bamboo rootballs out of my garden in London with a pick axe.
If I ever decide to clear the patch of 40 foot high bamboo from my woods here, Iâll just bribe my neighbour with Ricard and GNR to pop round with his backhoe for an hour.
I have no intention to remove the pampasgrass now. We have a healthy hedgehog population in the walled garden. Overwintering in the pampasgrass and using a strawbale in the grange as a nursery.
Once they are safely installed in the grange the pampas grass will goâŠ
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southern part of Nouvelle Aquitaine. Plenty of pampasgrass near the spanish border
Bayonne/Biarritz its like a weedâŠ
Now that sounds painful.
It seems only cortaderia selloana subsp. jubata is banned - although it looks similar to regular pampas grass, it can get much bigger, and reseeds easily. Itâs very likely the stuff you see in gardens isnât banned.
Papaver somniferum
Cultivars of Erythroxylaceae
Catha edulis
Cannabis sativa
All are banned and will be removed.
Les flics take quite an objection to the growing of the above.
Thistles, the ones that grow huge are offensive in Bretagne as commune workers, gardeners etc get injured. I got reprimanded one year for having a couple spring up where we were building a block wall along the front of the drive so always made sure they were killed off early before they got dangerous to my hands. Here there are horrible ground cover leafy plants in green and white that are ten times worse for pricking your hands and obviously a local thing as had never seen them before but roots/stalks are like thistles.
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Thatâs normal, those are drugs!
Hopefully theyâll ignore the Amanita muscaria that pops up in my grass every year of its own accord.
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So they told me 
When I lived in Belgium a local member of the Politie had the latter appearing in his garden. He claimed it was revenge.
Locally there is psilocybe cubensis; luckily users have not found them.
Correction it was semilanceata, the liberty cap
I wouldnât recognise something like semilanceata if I saw it, I barely know the basic edible ones!
You can legally grow several varieties of cannabis these days, the ones that are very low in THC (less than 0.2%) but high in CBD. I tried it once, and it was very easy, and did well, but I didnât bother doing anything with it in the end, and although I kept it quite discreet it did concern me that if anyone were to see it, how would they know itâs the legal version?
No longer true. From the website you linked to
ATTENTION: since the decree of December 30, 2021 implementing article R. 5132-86 of the Public Health Code, individuals no longer have the right to cultivate, for their own consumption, Cannabis plants even if the THC content is lower than the legal rate. We invite you to read the legal note on the possible sanctions in the event of growing CBD Cannabis in your garden.
Pretty sure they wouldnât sell them if it wasnât permitted as the fines would be too great.
I. - In application of [Article R. 5132-86 of the Public Health Code] , the cultivation, import, export and industrial and commercial use of only those varieties of Cannabis sativa L., whose delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol content is not greater than 0.30% and which are listed in the common catalogue of varieties of agricultural plant species or in the official catalogue of species and varieties of plants cultivated in France, are authorized.
I see what you mean about the section within the product listing itself though. That certainly wasnât stated when I purchased them but it was a while back.
Papaver somniferum I doubt thatâs banned as you can buy it in garden centres, harvesting & turning the resin into opium may not be looked at kindly.
They used to grow wild in some places where I used to live in Yorkshire. Mind you, the P.sem did as well. Allegedly.
I imagine since tea grows there just about anything will grow in Yorkshire.
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