"Rupert (W.Yorkshire)" wrote
"Des Higgins" wrote
"Rupert (W.Yorkshire)" wrote
"Des Higgins" wrote Yes Iberis-just testing
you. Obviously unpruned.

What did people do before google and usenet?
Folks all over the world had bits of plants that they inherited from
their
grannies or that were growing there when they moved in or which they
bought but had comepletely forgotten their names and when you asked what
it was they would look vague and change the subject or mumble something
like:
"could it be a kind of bluebell" while pointing at something 3 metres
tall
and smelling of damp badger.

Totally true and the duff name is then promulgated .

But I still tend to say things like "the yellow whasit from Aunty
Jane........' even when I do know what it's really called :~)
jenny