In article . 10,
Victoria Clare writes

I'll give you ashes though - gorgeous trees that neighbours hate! (just
stop seeing it as a seedling-generator for a moment and look...)

I still hate it! Great, overgrown coarse-looking thing!
I could never understand why people call rowan 'mountain ash' until I
saw the two side by side on Whernside - in that environment they both
had the silver gray bark and the same growth habit and looked very
similar indeed.
--
Kay Easton

Edward's earthworm page:
http://www.scarboro.demon.co.uk/edward/index.htm