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'Wicked Plants' Creep Through Brooklyn Gardens
npr. ^ | June 19, 2009 ยท | Margot Adler

Posted on 06/19/2009 11:49:40 AM PDT by JoeProBono

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To: USMCPOP

a poisonous houseplant if ingested by your chewing kitty is philodendron////spiderplants aren’t poisonous tho to cats


21 posted on 06/19/2009 12:47:40 PM PDT by MissDairyGoodnessVT (Mac Conchradha - "Skeagh mac en chroe"- Skaghvicencrowe)
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22 posted on 06/19/2009 12:50:32 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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This is great. Every once in a while when my wife and I are at a social function and we want to get out, we give each other this sign (without the sound of course.) First movie we ever went to.


23 posted on 06/19/2009 12:52:55 PM PDT by Vermont Lt (Ein Volk, Ein Riech, Ein Ein.)
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24 posted on 06/19/2009 12:54:40 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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25 posted on 06/19/2009 1:05:51 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: FeliciaCat
Those are the plants that keep a flower garden safe from browsing deer. They know not to eat them...Keeps rabbits out also...But I live in the country and don't need to worry about kids...The pods from the sweet pea can also be poison...When raising my 5 kids I knew by heart the phone # of Poison Control...Also learned how to get my kids to throw up before taking them to the doctor...Those lovely red berries on yews are big time no no's.

Foxglove is one of my favorite flowers, beautiful...

26 posted on 06/19/2009 1:14:24 PM PDT by goat granny
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Thanks.


27 posted on 06/19/2009 1:34:58 PM PDT by USMCPOP (Father of LCpl. Karl Linn, KIA 1/26/2005 Al Haqlaniyah, Iraq)
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To: JoeProBono
"The Return of the Giant Hogweed" (P. Gabriel: Genesis)

Turn and run!
Nothing can stop them,
Around every river and canal their power is growing.
Stamp them out!
We must destroy them,
They infiltrate each city with their thick dark warning odour.

They are invincible,
They seem immune to all our herbicidal battering.

Long ago in the russian hills,
A victorian explorer found the regal hogweed by a marsh,
He captured it and brought it home.
Botanical creature stirs, seeking revenge.
Royal beast did not forget.

He came home to london,
And made a present of the hogweed
to the royal gardens at kew.

Waste no time!
They are approaching.
Hurry now, we must protect ourselves and find some shelter
Strike by night!
They are defenceless.
They all need the sun to photosensitize their venom.

Still theyre invincible,
Still theyre immune to all our herbicidal battering.

Fashionable country gentlemen had some cultivated wild gardens,
In which they innocently planted the giant hogweed
throughout the land.

Botanical creature stirs, seeking revenge.
Royal beast did not forget.

Soon they escaped, spreading their seed,
Preparing for an onslaught,
threatening the human race.

Mighty hogweed is avenged. Human bodies soon will know our anger. Kill them with your hogweed hairs Heracleum mantegazziani

Giant hogweed lives

28 posted on 06/19/2009 1:59:30 PM PDT by bassmaner (Hey commies: I am a white male, and I am guilty of NOTHING! Sell your 'white guilt' elsewhere.)
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29 posted on 06/19/2009 2:11:06 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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