henbit

Henbit is blooming -- the purple stuff that takes over your yard and garden.

5 Who rode Henbit, Nashwan and Erhaab to Derby victories?

We also forage for wild greens--nettles, cleavers, henbit, dandelion (leaves, buds and flower heads), plantain, chickweed, sorrel, dock, purslane, and more.

After which no more weeds are needed but it is time for the winter annual weeds like common chickweeds, annual bluegrass, henbit and deadnettle, and speedwell to start into growth.

The typical American yard was a scraggly garden of plantain, henbit, creeping pale, barberry and multiflora rose, a kind of meadow in miniature.

The Haynes, Hanson & Clark Conditions Stakes has garnered a reputation for producing Group One winners over the years with the likes of Derby heroes Henbit and Shergar winning while subsequent Epsom heroes Sharastani and Authorized were placed.

Who rode Henbit, Nashwan and Erhaab to Epsom Derby victories?

Last year's winner was big-toothed Stacey Solomon (right), whose sire by coincidence is Carson's 1980 Derby winner Henbit, and one of the favourites to take her crown is Mark Wright from The Only Way Is Essex.

There is nothing more satisfying than a weedless garden of vigorous, healthy plants and nothing sadder than one whose veggies are being overtaken by henbit or quackgrass.

Only two horses - Henbit (1980) and Shergar (1981) - have gone on to glory in the Derby at Epsom following victory in the Chester Vase.