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"Janet Baraclough" wrote in message ... The message from "JennyC" contains these words: Found you a couple more useful sites: USAUK gardening ! http://www.gardeningcd.com/Adapt/adaptPg21.htm Useful??????????????????????????? Perhpas 'interesting' would have been a better word :~)) Jenny .Here's a taster of what that American site says about gardening in the UK:, "they don't have to contend with deer, rabbits, squirrels, moles, (snip) "In the 1960's, Miximitosis broke out in England. Rabbits are the victims. To kill the disease, the countryside was sprayed liberally with DDT, which not only killed off practically all the wild rabbit population, but also much of the wildlife and wildflowers. (snip) In the UK (again generalizing), winter temperatures rarely drop below 32ºF, summer temperatures average 75ºF " :-O Janet. |
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Janet Baraclough wrote: The message from "Mike Lyle" contains these words: They get some bizarre ideas over there. That could possibly be related to duff guff handed out by Brits in uk newsgroups. Such as (British weather) "can be anything from arctic to tropical, and our gardens can be anything from desert to swamp". Sigh, yes :-( Hyperbole is one thing, but that is round the bend. As someone who has a clue what the real tropics, real swamps and real deserts are like, the claims that the USA has them make me laugh (all right, they have real swamps). But claims that the UK has them make me despair, because they are so far beyond the conception of people who know only the UK that it is impossible to explain. All right, reedbeds and estuarine marshes are swamps, of a sort, but we have tiny areas, effectively nobody lives in them, and we have no examples of most of the wooded types of swampland. We DO get up to arctic conditions, but nobody gardens there. Some people garden in (warm winter) sub-arctic conditions, with immense difficulty, so I will pass the "arctic" claim as mere hyperbole. Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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