Buttercups -any advice?

[Ozric Jonathan]

I hate to disagree with Danny but I'm sure that it says somewhere on the Tortoise Trust website that there has been a confirmed case of a tortoise that died after eating a large amount of buttercups. It might not be possible to be certain that the buttercups caused the fatality. And it was apparently a really large amount of them that had been eaten.

The creeping buttercups are hard to get rid of. The roots can easily break when you pull them and a new plant will re-generate from a fragment. In heavy soils it can be very hard to pull them cleanly. And of course they send out those horrible runners all the time.