On 16/9/08 17:10, in article , "Spider"
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"Sacha" wrote in message
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I've just read about this one in Hyams's book and it's a new one to me.
Is
anyone growing it? He loved it for its thorns!
http://woodlandrosegarden.com/latest...0pteracantha%2
02005-05-22%200002.jpg

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Sacha
http://www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon
(new website online)


I don't grow this one, but I've known about it for a long time. I've often
thought of using it to supplement patchy areas in my pyracantha hedge. It
would give the burglar something to think about!

Incidentally, I couldn't raise your link. Don't know why. Fortunately,
there is a picture of this rose in my brain. :~)

Spider


I think the sun shining through the thorns looks beautiful but Ray's not too
keen on it. I think he envisages clients and their ankle biters being
impaled!
And thinking of spiders, we think - well I do, he's indifferent! - that Ray
was bitten on the lip by a spider yesterday. He didn't feel a thing, it
didn't itch and it didn't hurt. But it swelled up like nobody's business,
very quickly and then the area went as numb as if he'd had a dentist's
injection. I took him to the local cottage hospital and then to the doctor
at their insistence. Nobody could be sure what it was and Piriton seems to
have helped it go down. But looking at the inside of his lip today I can
see two small parallel 'cuts'. My guess is that he brushed his hand against
his mouth and that either there was a spider on his hand or his mouth and it
reacted accordingly! Do you know of a spider that would enjoy living on
trays of laurel plugs in a nice warm tunnel and that would have that effect
if it bit someone? ;-)

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Sacha
http://www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon
(new website online)