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from Chris Hogg contains these words:

I've come across this phrase recently, referring to a hedgerow plant.
But I can't find any reference to it, either in my wild flower books
or on Google. Old man's beard, yes, but not oatmeal. Has anyone come
across it, and what's the usual (or even latin) name for it.


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Chris

E-mail: christopher[dot]hogg[at]virgin[dot]net


Can't find 'Old man's oatmeal' but there's a reference to cow parsley as
'Bad man's oatmeal' on the website:

http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:o...c t=clnk&cd=3

Don't know whether this could be related.

Janet G