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Re: Garden thugs

On Tue, 23 Jun 1998 12:23:01 +0800, you wrote:

>I'm not sure wether it was Cindy or Gay who used the term, GARDEN THUGS
[Snip]
>If the "owner" of GARDEN THUGS could let me know how they feel or if
>someone could sort me on its history, I'll pass it on to Kate  :-)

Rod, it has been in common usage here in the UK for many, many years.
I frequently use it and have seen it used on medit-plants by others,
on quite a few occasions.

I don't know who it can be attributed to, but you would probably have
to go back at least 80 years or more into the old UK gardening books
to find out.  I pretty sure that Gertude Jekyll used the term in
reference to several plants. 

David Poole
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