Ka30P wrote:
Thanks, Charles!!

I thought this paragraph was noteworthy

The water hyacinth ranks high on my list," said Anne Larigauderie of the

Diversitas Secretariat based in Paris. She has a doctorate in the study of the
purple-flowered plant choking lakes in Africa, far from its South American home
by the Amazon.
A doctorate! About one of our favorite plants!
Favorite because we live in the cold zone so the plants don't cause harm here.


kathy :-)
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here in my part of New Mexico the worst invaders we have is Russian Knap
weed and Keosha weed but as we are in the Realy rural area "city
dogs" are a major problem, seems the town peaple think that we country
folk always can use another dog or 12 so now we have packs of up to 50
wild dogs running around our sheep goats and chickens are their livelyhood

John Rutz