Thread: Why House Leeks?
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Old 01-06-2008, 06:42 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
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Default Why House Leeks?

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| On 28 May, 20:45, Rusty Hinge 2
| wrote:
| I understand that they were grown on roofs because it was believed they
| kept lightning away.
|
| That and it was good material for thatching. In France we call it
| artichauds des montagnes. Not leek, but artichocke! Which is perhaps
| closer to what it looks like. Tectorum, as in sempervivum tectorum,
| means roofing.

Not quite. It means "of roofs".


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Nick Maclaren.
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