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- From: klier@iscsvax.uni.edu
- Newsgroups: rec.gardens
- Subject: Re: Horrible Plants
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.170743.8831@iscsvax.uni.edu>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 17:07:43 -0600
- References: <1992Nov13.210345.18149@cbfsb.cb.> <1453300099@igc.apc.org>
- Organization: University of Northern Iowa
- Lines: 31
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- In article <1453300099@igc.apc.org>, Ecology Center <ecologycntr@igc.apc.org> writes:
- >
- > Hey, wait a minute!
- >
- > I LIKE poison Ivy, Poison Oak, Chollas, etc. Since when are we
- > defining a plant's worth by how they affect our own comfort?
-
- Most of the time I like chollas, but I once backed into one when attempting
- to discreetly answer a Call of Nature in the middle of the night on an
- otherwise all-male field trip. I cussed that particular cholla for the
- rest of the week. (but I was a shy grad student at the time-- how things
- change!!!)
-
- > My list of horrible plants would include english ivy, tall fescue, irish yew,
- > (if pruned), and those boring white peonies you see everywhere back east.
-
- Hm. Well, I like peonies, esp. Festiva Maxima, the white one with red
- splashes. And I was utterly charmed by the first scotch broom I saw,
- not to mention Erodium cicutarium...
-
- I, on the other hand, detest smooth brome (Bromus inermis), yellow and white
- sweet clover, kentucky bluegrass, quaking aspen, grey dogwood, and weeping
- willow. I've spent too much time removing said plants from prairies.
- And then there's zucchini...
-
- I'm also decidedly unfond of itch-inducing plants like Fremontia and
- Mentzelia... though I'm happy to admire them from a distance. Just please
- don't ask me to collect them!!!! ;-)
-
-
- Kay
-