Re: uses --Feverfew?

I was complaining about feverfew because it spreads everywhere, like Theresa 
said, but also because I think it tends to look weedy and scraggly.  

For instance, although I have it everywhere in my yard now, there is one 
growing in one of my front beds next to ornamental grasses, and while walking 
through my yard with my husband one day, he looked down & pointed to it with 
contempt and said, "what's that?"  I could tell he does not like it.  He said he 
feels it resembles a weed.  This is what prompted me to inquire as to what 
usefulness it might have.  I have a higher tolerance than my husband for plants 
that do not look so "neat and proper" if I feel they have some other value.

Eva
Long Island, NY
Zone 6/7

"Gardens are not made by sitting in the shade."
Rudyard Kipling

In a message dated 6/16/2003 11:09:31 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
raynora.edwards@worldnet.att.net writes:

> O.K. you have my attention. What's wrong with fever few exactly ? I have it
> in my yard and its really a very pleasant plant. I also have conservatively
> a hundred or more bees. They are every where.
>   It's a member of the sunflower family and has been used historically for
> Migraines,fever and inflammation.There are no reports of toxicity in
> people.The major active chemicals in the plant are fairly benign
> (sequiterpene lactones principally parthenolide. essential oils
> l-camphor,l-borneol,terpenes,and miscellaneous esters) Which one of these is
> harming bees?
> 
> Nora

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