Guess that's the sort of thing you should plant under your windows to
discourage break ins!

In article ,
Mary wrote:

You betcha! I've had thorns from those Bougainvillea go right through
the bottom of my tennis shoes!

Mary

On 11 Sep 2003 14:44:46 GMT, pamfree (Zemedelec)
wrote:

Just be sure it's an embankment no one willl be tempted to sit on. Most
bouganvillians have sadistic inch-long thorns, when mature.
zemedelec