Re: WARNING - VERY LONG

Isobel,
We cannot get Lysitchium readily in Aussie.  I have managed to grow 2 plants
which I got from an e-mailer in Victoria!  I suppose it is not to be
discussed in medit-plants but I was VERY grateful to this group when it
ended up with two *precious* plants!

Isabel Tipton wrote:

> They are the birch canoes were made of, all right.  It is so wonderful,
> in the literal sense, to hear of our common plants and trees  being
> called exotic.  I just read a letter from a Finnish pen-friend, telling
> of the highlight of her trip to Berlin being the lysichitum being the in
> the botanic garden.  They grow wild in our creek.  I remember the first
> time BEth Chatto addressed the Victoria (BC. Canada) hort society saying
> the highlight of her trip so far was seeing the lysichitum growning
> wild.  We call them skunk cabbage, and I remember the buzz down the
> rows-  What is lysichitum? and back ' Skunk Cabbage',  Titter.
>  I have a son in West Aust, and always enjoy Aus postings.
> Isabel

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