Re: Ruta graveolens (spelling?)

In a message dated 5/21/02 2:16:09 PM Eastern Daylight Time, Meum71@aol.com 
writes:

<< > give a nasty rash when touched. Does anyone have any experience with 
this 
 > rue? One cultivar has lovely, very blue foliage. >>

I don't get any rash - not even poison ivy, Paul - but this plant will seed 
around.  You can cut it back to the ground once a season to keep it smaller.  
I find it grows much taller than books say but, I too, think it a lovely 
foliage plant.  The flowers are small and yellow.  You can cut them off if 
you do not like them.

Sorry for you guys with the poison ivy, isn't there some new OTC remedy for 
PI.  It certainly can make life miserable in the garden.  I used to live next 
to a man who ran over it with is lawn mower once in a while and he ended up 
in the hospital for breathing in the thrown up grass behind the mower.

Claire Peplowski
NYS z4

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