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Old 21-01-2007, 11:03 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
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Sue wrote:
"Kate Morgan" wrote
[Mike L]:
One needs to be aware of some of the dangers, too. I'm very fond of
orange hawkweed, for example, and included it in my patch; but it
soon
spread to the "civilised" areas of the garden, and caused deep
mourning.


LOL, I did this once with Teasels, I was not very popular


Ditto with Restharrow in my wild area. It's pretty and the bees love it,
but by george it does spread once it gets going!


Stinks too. I won't have it but it is pretty.

http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?im...icial%26sa%3DN
looks good on drystone walls. I would love to see some amid aubretia.