"Des Higgins" wrote in message
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"Rupert (W.Yorkshire)" wrote in message
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"Des Higgins" wrote in message


Yes Iberis-just testing you. Obviously unpruned.


What did people do before google and usenet?
Folks all over the world had bits of plants that they inherited from their
grannies or that were growing there when they moved in or which they
bought but had comepletely forgotten their names and when you asked what
it was they would look vague and change the subject or mumble something
like:
"could it be a kind of bluebell" while pointing at something 3 metres tall
and smelling of damp badger.

Totally true and the duff name is then promulgated .
I do still resort to the RHS books to find the pink flowered thing with an
ovate leaf that flowers in March and is only a few inches high.
The Garden centres must be castigated for spelling the names wrongly on
labels. 10,000 cardocrinus (cardiocrinum) distributed throughout Europe (and
Ireland) creates a whole new generation of miseducated:-)