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Re: Thistles, dandelions

On Thu, 8 Jan 1998, gdmorgan wrote:

> A milk thistle sprouted by chance in my herb garden. Since it is a
> traditional European herb I let it grow. It looked splendid with that
> dramatically variegated foliage, and I couldn't help thinking that if it
> were more difficult to cultivate it would probably be a popular garden
> plant.

I think it's a *wonderful* winter foliage plant.  I for some reason have
been unable to get the *#$% things to germinate in my garden!  

> I fear the neighbours might think it the final weedy straw,
> and lynch me.

Wanna trade neighbors?  I have neighbors who think bindweed is pretty.

("Oh yeah? Well, I think Clematis montana and Passiflora caerulea are
pretty, so if you let your bindweed invade from below, then I have no
trouble with letting my lovely clematis scramble up into your apple trees
by the fence!) :) 

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