"Sacha" <sacha@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> On 11/5/08 22:46, in article 48276922$0$10646$fa0fcedb@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> "someone" <someone@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> <snip>> The other thing is, do I need insurance for Health and Safety,
> because I
>> have lots of Agaves, small ones as well as a 6 foot one grown from a 1"
>> bulbil, plus Pujas which are very dangerous. Not to mention the ponds,
>> and
>> other things. Should I put up a notice saying "Enter at your own risk
-
>> and
>> please don't bring any young children in here" or what?
>>
>> Four weeks to go...
>>
>
> Where are you growing Puyas and Agaves outdoors?! Or are they in pots?
> The
> Abbey gardens in Tresco have both and I'm not aware of any notices
> anywhere.
> It might be worth your peace of mind to take out a one day insurance but
a
> few notices saying "Do not touch the plants, some of them bite" should
do
> it
> in terms of a bit of commonsense. You could, perhaps, print of little
> leaflets that give a brief history of these plants and *why* they
'bite'!
> --
Good point about the Abbey Gardens. I've grown several Puyas from seed,
and
the largest one (only about 2' high) spent the winter in a pot outside the
back door, the rest overwintered in the greenhouse. My agave is now very
elderly (grown from a tiny bulbil in 1976) and quite large, about 4' high
x
4' wide. It lives in a pot, weighs about 80 lbs. and spends the winter
indoors in front of the French doors, providing a very effective burglar
deterrent. We have to borrow a trolley from the local pub to ****ft it
inside/outside twice a year. Some of its offspring, however, spend the
winter in pots near the pond with only a few blackened leaves, otherwise
OK.
We spent a weekend in St. David's in Wales recently and visited an
extremely
interesting nursery/garden centre near the middle of the town, full of
exotic plants. Unfortunately I didn't find out its name, even though I
bought a couple of plants there. But this man had a giant Puja growing in
the centre of his nursery, it was about 15 feet tall, and had a flower
stalk
extending up to about 25 feet and about to flower. I will just have to go
back to St. David's and have another look.
someone
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