Re: separated by a common language - was Crithmum maritimum
- Subject: Re: separated by a common language - was Crithmum maritimum
- From: Anthony Lyman-Dixon l*@lyman-dixon.freeserve.co.uk
- Date: Sun, 02 Feb 2003 16:09:36 +0000
RStarkeson@jschlesinger.com wrote:
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> Someone from England, I believe (message accidentally erased, so I cannot respond directly), replied to Deborah Lindsay' querry about cultural needs of Crithmum maritimum, with the advice that in England it is grown in tunnels to prevent the deer from feasting on it. I confess that even after some consideration, I cannot figure out what growing in a tunnel would entail. Images of mushroom caves, fenced off bunkers and entrances to subways (the underground/metro) come to mind, but I doubt the tunnel to which the writer was referring was anything like these. Can anyone from the British Isles explain to this confused american what growing in a tunnel means?
Hullo, yes that was my message, the things are indeed not railway, oops
sorry, railroad tunnels, they are plastic membranes stretched across
metal hoops, what do they call them in your part of the USA? They were
certainly tunnels when I was in PA and MA a couple of years ago, Given
the current political situation I think both we and the Crithmum would
be better in one of your "fenced off bunkers" than the ones trying to
blow away in the icy wind blasting across the nursery this afternoon.
Anthony
