"shazzbat" wrote in message
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I saw something on the telly recently, didn't catch all of it,
but the gist was that it's called London pride because it was
often the first plant to recolonise sites which had been bombed
in the blitz.


Which maybe goes to show you shouldn't necessarily believe
everything you see on the telly.

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THE COTTAGERS' CALENDAR OF GARDEN OPERATIONS.

By Joseph Paxton,

Gardener to His Grace the Duke of Devonshire, &c., &c.

[...]

Layering
Leeks
Leptosiphons
Lettuce
Lobelias
London Pride
Lychnis, Double
Marigold
Marjoram
Manures

[...]

Printed by Thomas Clark Shaw, [...]Publisher, at No. 186.
Fleet Street aforesaid.—Saturday, August 24. 1850.

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/13406...-h/13406-h.htm

( near the bottom - contents only)

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michael adams

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Except for the weeds presumably :-))

Steve