Andy Dingley wrote:
> On 5 Feb, 17:47, John McGaw <nob...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>>> http://paulownia.iscool.net
>> Why do you keep trying to sell weed seeds? I'm sure everyone already
has
>> all the weeds they need.
>
> Well I'd love to grow Paulownia, but when I looked at the weather
> conditions for my plot (in _Wales_ of all places) it just didn't have
> the water to sup****t the things. 8-(
If you were to plant one, something I strongly advise against, you might
be surprised. These weeds were introduced to some areas to control
erosion in abandoned strip mines and have escaped into the wild. Around
here, especially up toward the Kentucky border I can find them growing
with great abandon out of solid rock faces in highway cuts and in mounds
of shale overburden where the only water is poison to everything else.
These are undemanding plants. If dandelion were a tree it would be
paulownia. I'd bet that you couldn't find a toxic wasteland surrounding
an abandoned lead mine in Wales where paulownia wouldn't survive
--
John McGaw
[Knoxville, TN, USA]
http://johnmcgaw.com
