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Has any ever done anything really stupid concerning plants?

I have. I once sterilised my brewing equipment in the bathroom
without removing the house plants first. Result? Instant acid rain
from the sulphur dioxide leading to everything dying within half an
hour.

Andy

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In article , Andy p.panter@
REMOVESPAMTRAP.ntlworld.com writes
Has any ever done anything really stupid concerning plants?

I have. I once sterilised my brewing equipment in the bathroom
without removing the house plants first. Result? Instant acid rain
from the sulphur dioxide leading to everything dying within half an
hour.

Andy

Not short term like that, but long term when we had our first garden.
Joan bought a Flowering Cherry which 'looked nice'. Didn't think of the
finished height and size of the tree :-((

After we moved, the tree had to be cut down because it spanned the
garden and went into the gardens either side :-(

Joan Mike
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On Fri, 04 Apr 2003 02:55:10 +0100, Andy
wrote:

Has any ever done anything really stupid concerning plants?
Yes, I scattered pelleted chicken manure on some pots about this time
of year. Several grasses, especially an impressive hakonechloa were
killed. I later heard Bob Flowerdew say that the best way to kill a
plant was to put chicken manure on it!
I use the stuff with caution nowadays!

Pam in Bristol
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Has any ever done anything really stupid concerning plants?

Yes, ask my dear husband to help with the weeding :-( some gardener he
turned out to be altho I did suspect a cunning plan !
kate

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On Fri, 4 Apr 2003 07:24:50 +0100, Mike
wrote:

Has any ever done anything really stupid concerning plants?

I have. I once sterilised my brewing equipment in the bathroom
without removing the house plants first. Result? Instant acid rain
from the sulphur dioxide leading to everything dying within half an
hour.

Andy

Not short term like that, but long term when we had our first garden.
Joan bought a Flowering Cherry which 'looked nice'. Didn't think of the
finished height and size of the tree :-((

Oh dear; I've got one of those a previous owner has planted and it's
near the house. They also planted a birch next to the drains.
They're both going to have to go one day; a job which I'm not looking
forward to as there's no rear access to the garden and they look as if
they're going to require heavy earth moving equipment.

Andy

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Andy wrote:

Has any ever done anything really stupid concerning plants?

I have. I once sterilised my brewing equipment in the bathroom
without removing the house plants first. Result? Instant acid rain
from the sulphur dioxide leading to everything dying within half an
hour.

Andy

On the Beds/Herts border, where I live, there seems to be an enthusiasm
for planting Monkey Puzzle Trees in small front gardens.

One garden, 15ft by 8ft "contains" a 40ft tall mature specimen with a
trunk which is almost 2ft in diameter. The house is quite old and rather
dilapidated - I'm waiting for it to get even more dilapidated!

Two modern houses with similar sized front gardens have enthusiast young
specimens ~12ft high. I am looking forward to the time when the owners
realise what they have done:-))
--
Larry Stoter

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In article , Larry
Stoter writes
Andy wrote:

Has any ever done anything really stupid concerning plants?

I have. I once sterilised my brewing equipment in the bathroom
without removing the house plants first. Result? Instant acid rain
from the sulphur dioxide leading to everything dying within half an
hour.

Andy

On the Beds/Herts border, where I live, there seems to be an enthusiasm
for planting Monkey Puzzle Trees in small front gardens.

They do that in Leeds too :-)
I've seen then within 2 ft of a house.

There's also a whole grove of them along the edge of the inner ring
road, about 6 ft from the carriageway. They look very striking,
underplanted with pampas grass.

But I guess they'll be changing the planting when it gets out of hand.


--
Kay Easton

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http://www.scarboro.demon.co.uk/edward/index.htm

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On Fri, 04 Apr 2003 02:55:10 +0100, Andy
wrote:

Has any ever done anything really stupid concerning plants?

The anecdote about the boy with the match and a coniferous hedge I
posted in a thread much further ahead reminded me of something else
which I thought I should dutifully post in this old thread.

I was the boy with the match of course, but anyway, I was a boarder
and my parents were expatriates in Malaya (as it then was).

The same school had flower beds which you could adopt and tender if
you had the inclination. Whilst on my summer hols (in Malaya) I
decided I would take back some seeds of a plant I rather took a shine
to. I believe I planted them the following Spring and I don't remember
having much success with them.

However when us kiddies all went back to school for the autumn term
that year we found the grounds crawling with men in space suits
wielding spray guns and yes, I believe it was that very same hedge.

At the assembly we were informed rather solemnly that there had been
an infestation of a particularly nasty bug which had never before been
found in the Western Hemisphere.

I think they're a little stricter at Customs now.

Hussein


Grow a little garden

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We bought a lovely lime tree, brought it home and promptly overwatered
it, leading to it dying slowly on us from day one. We've just bought
another one, and will probably let it go dry and die that way this
time G

"The only time you don't fail is the last time you try anything -- and it
works."

- William Strong

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