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My nan and mum used to have a plant which I think they called roof
cabbage or maybe chimney cabbage based on where it grew, ìt grew as a dense mound about the size of a football, I don't know if this is just a "country name", google image search struggles to find what it really is, anyone know? |
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On 23/07/2016 18:52, Andy Burns wrote:
My nan and mum used to have a plant which I think they called roof cabbage or maybe chimney cabbage based on where it grew, ìt grew as a dense mound about the size of a football, I don't know if this is just a "country name", google image search struggles to find what it really is, anyone know? Could it have been a Sempervivum? A colony can form a sort of mounded humpty shape. It was a country tradition to grow these "house leeks" on tiled roofs to ward of bad luck and lightning strikes. There were several clumps of these on an old pan-tiled shed roof at the cottage next door to where my in-laws lived. |
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Chris Hogg wrote:
Do you mean 'houseleek' i.e. Sempervivum? Quite likely, cabbage didn't sound entirely right, but I couldn't think what other veg it might be ... http://tinyurl.com/zlr34wa Yes that's it thanks (and to Indigo). |
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