Re: Leonotis or The Mint That Ate Milwaukee

At 11:25 AM +1000 25/9/98, Don Martinson wrote:
>>Dear Friends
>>
>>I failed to include propagation details for Leonotis with the
>>info I supplied earlier.
>>
>>Wild dagga [Leonotis spp.] is very easily grown from seed & the plant
>>is quite common in South African nurseries & gardens. The seeds
>>do not require any form of pre-treatment for germination.
>>
>>Leonotis seed - and seed of many other South African plants -
>>available from:
>>
>
>
>Last summer, I collected Leonotus lantana seeds and just kept them in an
>air tight jar until this spring and sowed them in ordinary seed compost in
>April.  The resulting plant was much larger than described for either L.
>leonurus or L. nepetifolia.
>
>If you'd like to take a peek, you can see it at:
>http://www.execpc.com/~llmen/leonotus.html
>
>Don Martinson
>Milwaukee, Wisconsin
>d*@post.its.mcw.edu
>
>"Existing order thrives upon ignorance and lies.
>Objective truth and individual reason are feared above all."
Has anyone smoked it? especially L. cateria?


Michael Bailes.
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