Re: Coronilla glauca variegata wild boars and more

Folks -

The following message appears to have been previously rejected for reasons 
I cannot decipher, and I believe the sender was Jennifer Copley-May 
<Gemcopley@cs.com>:



Subj:   Re:  Coronilla glauca variegata wild boars and more
Date:   09/01/00
To: medi-plants@ucdavis.edu

Coronilla glauca ? Sean,it looks pretty, pleasant scent, and then it 
spreads and spreads.  Took over the terraces and looked very leggy and 
scrappy.  I now pull it out after a good rain soak. One is alright, to me 
hundreds become weeds.

Back to the wild boars. My local freezer store here in France sells 
Australian wild boar (and New Zealand venison,)so I now have visions of it 
being hunted cave-man fashion. We do get the beasts in the woods alongside, 
but we don't see them. The following simple solution might help. We have 
very old stone terraces (does anyone know how to tell the age ? Is it like 
hedges in UK. a specie per one hundred years, I believe?) They were planted 
at least 60  years ago,with bigarade oranges for the perfume and 
confectionary industry, and some of the old trees survive to this day. The 
local co-operative accepts the green oranges from gardens etc. in the 
autumn to distill for orange essence, and the flowers for orange flower 
water, which is recommended for the digestion and as a mild sedative; these 
oranges also make the most delicious marmalade. Set at right angles in the 
hand cut dry stone walls are huge slabs that form steps on diagonals up the 
walls. These were it seems to prevent the wild boar moving from one terrace 
to the other.  These wild boar must have been formidable jumpers, for  some 
of the terraces are over six foot high, all slope gently in to the hill , 
the bottom being further out than the top. They have so far withstood all 
weathers and even the recent Great Storms which have up -turned ancient 
pines.(The oaks were unmoved.)  I am told that this system is no longer 
legal. Is it because folk fell off after their mid-day litre of red, or 
because they stood up and brained themselves on the slabs ?

So sorry, it wasn't a serious suggestion, but the terraces and their stone
work are very beautiful, every stone worked by hand and exquisitely fitted
together.  Following upon the wisteria thread; the dirty deed has been 
done. Razed to the ground. What a relief. I grew it from seed. it had 
perfect conditions, and in about ten years never one blossom, I warned it 
several times. Revenge is sweet.

There's lots of that clematis alba here too. What is the world's most 
ubiquitous weed do you think ? (Given the recent definition of invasive etc?)

Greetings to all.
Jennifer.

Sean A. O'Hara                       sean.ohara@groupmail.com
h o r t u l u s   a p t u s          710 Jean Street
'a garden suited to its purpose'     Oakland, CA 94610-1459, U.S.A.
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