In article ,
Janet Baraclough writes:
| The message
| from Dave Roberts contains
| these words:
|
| Whilst on this, (allelopathy ? ), subject may I mention the vine
| Solanum
| Crispum - 'Glasnevin'. For myself I would take a lot of convincing that
| this
| does NOT poison its immediate root area.
|
| Haven't found that. I have one growing in a very large pot (and in
| flower atm). For the last year and a half the soil surface in the pot is
| almost completely covered with self-seeded purple leafed violets (also
| inflower atm) and verbena bonariansis, which flowered well last year and
| looks very healthy atm.

I am very fond of quoting Oscar Wilde, but he is very relevant to such
ecological issues:

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.