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Re: Opium poppies

At 5:43 PM +1100 5-2-98, R. Beer wrote:
>> Here it has become well-nigh impossible to grow ANY sort of poppy in
>> suburban gardens (Even in the privacy of the back yard) without some
>> deprived maniac coming in the dead of night and digging up the plants.
>> So few of us try to grow even respectable kinds any more.
>
>This is the other reason I won't grow poppies in the front yard; I don't
>want to attract the weirdos.  I know of a woman here who had a nice stand
>of brilliant pink opium poppies in her front yard; she was standing in the
>living room and saw a van stop by her curb.  A man jumped out of the back,
>rushed into her garden, ripped up the whole patch of poppies in one fell
>swoop, and ran back into the van.  By the time she picked her jaw up off
>the floor, the van had sped off.  I don't want to attract that, and
>besides, know knows what they would trample in the process!  Just the
>other day my landlord was here with his wife; she nonchalantly stepped
>right into my patch of cyclamen coum and stood admiring the house. "Sorry
>dears, the world is *not* made of indoor-outdoor carpet....Allo?
>Parlez-vous vache?  Meuuuuuu?" Grrrr.  (Pardon my french in every sense of
>the expression.)
>
>Bob
I have the same problem.
I have  apublic garden and Peonny Poppy sead is not easily avialble.
Everone knocks off the seed heads. Are they just dopey?


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