Colm O'Regan: I'm tackling invasive species or 'bashing the balsam'
I’ve watched Himalayan Balsam proliferate recently where I grew up
It feels wrong. To be pulling up plants covered in bumblebees. It goes against everything I believe in. Bees are king, ok queen. But these are not good flowers. They’re…invasive.
Growing up on a farm, there were the Four Weeds of the Apocalypse – Thistles, Docks, Nettles and Ragwort. But then we learned that they had their moments. And they were native. Ragwort is as Irish as the tradition of getting small children to pull ragwort.
