Identify this shrub/ tree

[Ilnumero]

Known as witches wood round here, and considered bad luck to burn.

 

I know people who won't even have it in the house.

 

Now, I'm not superstitious but I haven't brought any indoors and avoid including it in the firewood pile. Suppose that does make me superstitious after all....

[Burgess]

Stinks like cat urine when cut too.

[Mick Dempsey]

It's everywhere, it's like posting a picture of a lawn and asking "what's the green stuff all over the ground here?"

[Goaty]

The berries make an excellent antioxidant or whatever drink and the flowers an excellent cordial. But you do have to make effort.

 

Now is the time to propagate from hardwood cuttings, tear a branch off with a heal attached trim tear to a stump. Stick in ground. Job as good as done.

They are terrible to have in a hedge but not a threat to an established woodland, they fail when it gets really dry.

 

 

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[tree-fancier123]

It's everywhere, it's like posting a picture of a lawn and asking "what's the green stuff all over the ground here?"

 

there was a website not long ago selling stingy nettles 'attracts bees and other wildlife to the garden' £6.99 or something. Metrophile office bods would possibly click to order

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening/plants/10265984/Dont-call-them-weeds-stinging-nettles-on-sale-to-urban-gardeners-for-7.99.html

Edited December 10, 2016 by tree-fancier123