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Stewart Robert Hinsley · 28-02-2009, 09:07 AM posted to uk.rec.gardening

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aquachimp wrote:

I wonder how long before a plant gets named "newsgroup".
Will it be a rose and will it be a thorny though beautifully scented
variety?
Like an old moss rose? A deep red?

Clearly a rambler, prone to throwing off shoots with flowers that are
of an entirely different colour from the main plant :-)

Troll, erm, I mean disease resistant?

And if so, she may have as many as she wishes.

Trollsbane. Sadly, a now very rare wild plant.

Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

Plantfinder has 4 Trolls, a Snow Troll, and the genus Trollius. No
Troll(s)bane however. Perhaps we could rename Urtica ferox. (I'd suspect
that Dendrocnide moroides is not hardy in the UK.)
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Stewart Robert Hinsley