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hungrycharley wrote:

On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 12:00:54 -0500, Omelet
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"Cathy F." wrote:

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Water Hyacinth.

They are illegal to grow here.
Unfortunately. :-(

Very pretty, but IIRC, it's the plant that clogs up waterways something
fierce. IOW, seems to know no bounds, spreading.

Cathy

They crowd out native species but for sheer beauty, that is not
necessarily a bad thing.

I just don't think that they should restrict private ponds that have no
influence on native water ways.


Could birds spread the seeds? This is a common way of propagation for
many plants. Also, airborne seeds like dandelions. Just cause it can't
walk, doesn't mean it can't spread.
hc

The problem was that some morons tossed their overgrowth into the local
river. Eradication was expensive, but eventually successful.

(San Marcos, Texas USA).
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On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 12:37:16 -0500, Omelet
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Could birds spread the seeds? This is a common way of propagation for
many plants. Also, airborne seeds like dandelions. Just cause it can't
walk, doesn't mean it can't spread.
hc

The problem was that some morons tossed their overgrowth into the local
river. Eradication was expensive, but eventually successful.

(San Marcos, Texas USA).

Ah! Now I know the locale.
I know the provenance of several of the contributors to this ng but
often it is a bit of a mystery. Sometimes the photographic subjects
give the clue, but sometimes not. Should we have a convention about
identifying a contributor's locale?
alt.binaries.pictures.rail has a nice convention that most posts are
prefixed with the country of origin (US, UK, Cy(work that one out),
etc.), but that is about the subject, not the photographer.
Just a thought.

Guy Gorton

In article ,
Guy Gorton wrote:

On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 12:37:16 -0500, Omelet
wrote:

Could birds spread the seeds? This is a common way of propagation for
many plants. Also, airborne seeds like dandelions. Just cause it can't
walk, doesn't mean it can't spread.
hc

The problem was that some morons tossed their overgrowth into the local
river. Eradication was expensive, but eventually successful.

(San Marcos, Texas USA).

Ah! Now I know the locale.
I know the provenance of several of the contributors to this ng but
often it is a bit of a mystery. Sometimes the photographic subjects
give the clue, but sometimes not. Should we have a convention about
identifying a contributor's locale?
alt.binaries.pictures.rail has a nice convention that most posts are
prefixed with the country of origin (US, UK, Cy(work that one out),
etc.), but that is about the subject, not the photographer.
Just a thought.

Guy Gorton

Servers can be traced... :-)

But in this case, it was relevant.
The San Marcos river is unique.

There are also a few humoungous goldfish living in the river, but since
they are not breeding, they are causing no ecological impact. g
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On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 13:03:36 -0500, Omelet
wrote:

In article ,
Guy Gorton wrote:

On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 12:37:16 -0500, Omelet
wrote:

Could birds spread the seeds? This is a common way of propagation for
many plants. Also, airborne seeds like dandelions. Just cause it can't
walk, doesn't mean it can't spread.
hc

The problem was that some morons tossed their overgrowth into the local
river. Eradication was expensive, but eventually successful.

(San Marcos, Texas USA).

Ah! Now I know the locale.
I know the provenance of several of the contributors to this ng but
often it is a bit of a mystery. Sometimes the photographic subjects
give the clue, but sometimes not. Should we have a convention about
identifying a contributor's locale?
alt.binaries.pictures.rail has a nice convention that most posts are
prefixed with the country of origin (US, UK, Cy(work that one out),
etc.), but that is about the subject, not the photographer.
Just a thought.

Guy Gorton

Servers can be traced... :-)


Not all that reliably. One frequent user of a fangroup I sometimes
read telnets her material to a server in Florida for posting. She
lives in Taiwan.

hungrycharley


But in this case, it was relevant.
The San Marcos river is unique.

There are also a few humoungous goldfish living in the river, but since
they are not breeding, they are causing no ecological impact. g

In article ,
hungrycharley wrote:

Servers can be traced... :-)


Not all that reliably. One frequent user of a fangroup I sometimes
read telnets her material to a server in Florida for posting. She
lives in Taiwan.

hungrycharley

She's better than me... g
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