Re: Picking Your Collective Brain

**"Jacqueline Heriteau" j*@msn.com**

Ants are amazing! I lived in Provence for a few years and the water cistern--like a big pool- had a colony of red ants nearby...they got flooded once and I saw them join together to form islands to float off the eggs...specks of white others were carrying on their heads, as far as I could make out...amazing~!
Jacqui Heriteau

----- Original Message -----
From: MARGARET LAUTERBACH
Sent: Sunday, April 02, 2006 5:08 AM
To: Garden Writers -- GWL -- The Garden Writers Forum
Subject: Re: [GWL] Picking Your Collective Brain

I couldn't believe my eyes, but I saw two ants carrying one item too large for one ant to carry, a few years ago. They were carrying the item (I didn't know what it was) like two humans would carry a board.  I was thunderstruck, but my friend wanted to continue our journey, alas.  Margaret L
  ----- Original Message -----  
  From: Jacqueline Heriteau<j*@msn.com>  
  To: Garden Writers -- GWL -- The Garden Writers Forum<g*@lists.ibiblio.org>  
  Sent: Saturday, April 01, 2006 4:41 PM
  Subject: Re: [GWL] Picking Your Collective Brain

  That's a thought...can they carry seeds that big that distance?   
  "self sow" is probably not the right way to describe what happens.....maybe birds spread the seeds......the bed that has the most peonies hadn't been deadheaded for ever...been lefgt wild for maybe 15 years.. bringing it back was a nightmare...lily of the valley had become a weed and it's deep rooted and hard to eradicate...
  The funny part is all the years I lived in DC I tried to grow lily of the valley, peonies, ferns and struggled with pachysandra ground cover that kept dying...the invasives here are lily of the valley, ferns, peonies, pachysandra
  As I said in the introduction  to Feast of Flowers, (Houghton Mifflin) life has a way of giving you  what you very much want.
  Jacqui Heriteau

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