I'm glad everyone thinks the same as me and there is not much chance
that poisons from the Yew can transfer to the Bay. The person who
suggested that it is possible describes the path as via moisture in
the soil and some types of Bay are toxic anyway!

Steve

They have probably got confused by the fact that bay is in the same genus as cherry laurel. You could start talking to them about potatoes and deadly nightshade. Or (not quite so closely related) carrot and hemlock, peas and laburnum ... with a little research you could persuade them to restrict themselves to an extremely limited diet :-)

On Sat, 21 Aug 2010 12:12:19 +0000, kay
wrote:


Stephen Wolstenholme;898014 Wrote:
I'm glad everyone thinks the same as me and there is not much chance
that poisons from the Yew can transfer to the Bay. The person who
suggested that it is possible describes the path as via moisture in
the soil and some types of Bay are toxic anyway!

Steve

They have probably got confused by the fact that bay is in the same
genus as cherry laurel. You could start talking to them about potatoes
and deadly nightshade. Or (not quite so closely related) carrot and
hemlock, peas and laburnum ... with a little research you could
persuade them to restrict themselves to an extremely limited diet :-)

"They" don't exist. The whole argument started between just two of us.
Steve

English does not have a neuter pronoun. I was using "they" in the common colloquial usage to avoid having to either make a gender assumption, use the cumbersome "he/she" or the twee "s/he". I will endeavour to be far more precise in my use of language should I ever be moved in the future to respond to a thread to which you have contributed.

Well while you two debate the finer points of english vocabularly with your heads up your a**es, I just like to say that if it was in the UK then I would plant another Bay, just because, given my experience the one under the yew tree would be covered in pigeon doo doos and that is going to full of samonella.

On Sun, 22 Aug 2010 14:50:17 +0000, kay
wrote:


Stephen Wolstenholme;898091 Wrote:
On Sat, 21 Aug 2010 12:12:19 +0000, kay
wrote:

They have probably got confused

"They" don't exist. The whole argument started between just two of us.
Steve

English does not have a neuter pronoun. I was using "they" in the common
colloquial usage to avoid having to either make a gender assumption, use
the cumbersome "he/she" or the twee "s/he". I will endeavour to be far
more precise in my use of language should I ever be moved in the future
to respond to a thread to which you have contributed.[/i][/color]

I read your message as an implication that I was feeding my bay to a
few people and so I was pointing out that, that was not the case. No
one has died yet

Steve