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Re: Leonotis or The Mint That Ate Milwaukee

>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

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