"Sacha" wrote in message
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On 13/8/04 20:14, in article ,
"Janet Baraclough.." wrote:

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Hate to break it to you but it's a feature of municipal planting all
over
the place. There's some in a roundabout in Totnes right now!

I dunno how, then, because the govt banned the sale of ricinus seeds a
year or so back, as part of their anti-terrorist protection of the
public.


That's interesting. I'll check again next time I drive past but I'm 99.9%
sure I'm right. If I am, I might just ask the council how they came by
them. ;-) Of course, the answer to this might be that the council
nurseries have their own collected seed supply but are neither buying nor
selling them. I wonder when the government is going to ban us from buying
fertiliser and sugar. ;-)
--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
(remove the weeds to email me)

Still using them down here too, so bearing this thread in mind I asked at a
thing I was doing down in Penzance yesterday, and the Parks people showed me
the seed catalogue they use complete with the castor oil plants in several
different types! in fact their boss was convinced that the law had never
been passed that they had only said they were going too. Sort of had a
familiar ring to it :~)

--
Charlie, gardening in Cornwall.
http://www.roselandhouse.co.uk
Holders of National Plant Collection of Clematis viticella (cvs)