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Re Garden Thugs

I'll add my two penn'orth/two cents worth to the 'anonymous antique'
party. 

MY memory tells me that Gussy Bowles (circa WW1) used it, or something
very like it, in one or other of his books - about whole gangs of the
inhabitants of the Midleton House garden. (It was that sort of
garden.)

What about a competition for 'Favourite Thug for a Med. Garden'? My
vote would go to Geranium maderense, which self-sows rampantly here,
and can swallow a path or a five-foot shrub in less than a season, but
is so beautiful I just pat it on the head ('There, there, dear, it's
your difficult upbringing; I know, I know'') and send it off to do
Community Service somewhere else whenever it gets unbearably too big
and macho-braggart for ITS boots and this garden's tiny dimensions.
Any competitors?

Days of wind and rain and hardly a day touching 70 yet. Ah, the joys
of the English summer...
Tim Longville
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