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RE: Re Garden Thugs

Looks like I started something here
maybe we could start a new garden style, 
"the thug garden"
plant only thug plants and watch em slug it out..

:-)

Cheers, Rod




Rod Randall
Weed Risk Assessment
Weed Science Group, Agriculture Western Australia
Home Page  http://www.agric.wa.gov.au/progserv/plants/weeds/Weedsci.htm

             "I weed..."

> ----------
> From: 	tim@eddy.u-net.com
> Reply To: 	tim@eddy.u-net.com
> Sent: 	Thursday, 25 June 1998 12:39 AM
> To: 	medit-plants@ucdavis.edu
> Subject: 	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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