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- From: claird@NeoSoft.com (Cameron Laird)
- Subject: Re: Horrible Plants
- Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 22:19:48 GMT
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- References: <1992Nov13.210345.18149@cbfsb.cb.> <1453300099@igc.apc.org> <1992Nov18.170743.8831@iscsvax.uni.edu>
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- In article <1992Nov18.170743.8831@iscsvax.uni.edu> klier@iscsvax.uni.edu writes:
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- >> 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.
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- .
- .
- Ooooo, can I play?
-
- I like Melilotus. On the other hand, weeping willows
- are pestiferous; silver maples and most ashes planted
- in suburbs are insipid (although silver maples have a
- branching pattern that is ideal for juvenile climbing);
- cottonwood is the equivalent of its brother the aspen
- for being a useless nuisance; and there are lots of
- forbs that I don't like, but don't come to mind outside
- gardening season. Also, quackgrass and allied monocots
- mostly show up where they don't belong (say humans).
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- Cameron Laird
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