Seaweed, Sea-Kale & Scale
- To: medit-plants@ucdavis.edu
- Subject: Seaweed, Sea-Kale & Scale
- From: t*@eddy.u%2Dnet.com (Tim Longville)
- Date: Sun, 01 Aug 1999 17:53:24 GMT
Trevor: I suspect it's only a question of time before your gastropods
track down C. maritima as well - here they certainly seemed to find it
if anything even more desirable than C. cordifolia - in the end I gave
up on both spp, on the 'if you can't beat'em, pack it in' principle.
Many thanks for the pittosporum suggestions from various quarters. I
shall shortly march out with my hand glass and see what I can
discover.
Incidentally, what are 'woollice'?? Since they're occurring in a
greenhouse, would they be (wild guess coming up) what the UK tends to
call 'white fly'??
Hugo: I lay no claim to being an algae and seaweed expert - or ANY
sort of expert! - but if at least some of the stuff on our beaches
here (there appear to be at least half a dozen different 'varieties')
isn't seaweed, then I'll - what? - go in for collecting nun's farts
instead of trying to grow plants?! (N's fs, which, alas and alack, we
DON'T have, so beach cricket tends to get played here with the much
less romantic 'balls' of washed-up Coke cans chucked overboard from
passing fishing boats and tankers.) Many thanks for the message,
anyway - a phrase-cum-fact to treasure, even if I never find a
suitable conversational situation to fling it casually in to....
Tim Longville
