Re: OLEANDERS
- To: , medit-plants
- Subject: Re: OLEANDERS
- From: C*
- Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 10:52:06 -0800
During a tour of the old (Malibu) Getty museum garden, I was told that the
Romans used it as chemical warfare, burning it when the wind was blowing
towards enemy troops........
Side note, keep your eyes open for when this museum/garden reopens. It is a
recreation of a Roman villa and garden. The garden is well done, using all
varieties which were used during that period. It was fun to find out that
the Cardoons in my garden--self-seeding remnants of when my predominantly
working class Hispanic neighborhood was predominantly working class
Italian-- can be traced back to a Roman food for the nobility. Something
about the purple color perhaps? Well, in the 21st century cardoons are for
all of us. Nature prevails over such arbitrary social and economic
distinctions.
Any cardoon recipes out there?
Laura
on 11/26/00 9:37 AM, T.L.Miller at tlmiller@mac.com wrote:
> On 11/26/00 12:01 PM Gemcopley@cs.com (Gemcopley@cs.com) said:
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>> And, someone will correct me if I'm wrong,
>> when we had a garden in Florida burning oleander was banned as even the ash
>> is toxic.
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> Wouldn't be the least bit surprised. I've heard that breathing the smoke
> from burning oleander is not a good idea.
>
> Tom Miller
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