Re: Devil's Guts?!?
Cheryl and Wayne Renshaw wrote:
>
> >Next time I garden I will be moving another small tree into its place,
> >but it is going to involve disentangling its roots from "Devil's Guts"
> >which I do NOT want to spread to a new part of the garden.
>
> I'm dying of curiousity but a little hesitant to ask: what in the world do
> Devil's Guts look like?
>
> I can think of plenty of weeds around here that would fit--bindweed and
> oxalis pes-caprae (however you spell that) come to mind--but I'm really
> curious just what this awful thing is.
>
> Cheryl
I should hate to be the cause of you dying, so I hasten to reply <G>
Devil's Guts is one of a number of robust old English names for Bindweed
(convolvulus). As a student I was given the task of reading up all
about this and several other plants as a piece of background research
for one of the staff who was hoping to write a book on weeds. I can't
now remember just how may uncomplimentary names I discovered, but it was
an amazing number. After suffering its assaults for many years I could
invent a few more myself!!!
Moira
--
Tony & Moira Ryan <theryans@xtra.co.nz>
Wainuiomata,
New Zealand (astride the "Ring of Fire" in the SW Pacific).
