Re: [gardeners] wildgarden list
Allen and Judy Merten (gardeners@globalgarden.com)
Thu, 01 Oct 1998 19:32:00 -0500
Hi Chris,
They would have wanted to burn you at the stake!! I started laughing out loud
while reading about your decorating endeavor.
Allen
Bastrop Co.,Tx
Zone 8
SECK138@aol.com wrote:
> Allen I thought you might really appreciate this story. I am fortunately not
> be allergic to poison ivy which means of course that I didn't even bother to
> find out what it looks like. I had to make 60 arrangements for a PTO potluck
> dinner in the fall. I scooped out pumpkins as the base. I did not have
> enough flowers I decided to comb the neighborhood and use foliage leaves. I
> cut and arranged poison ivy in each arrangement. Thankfully my husband came
> home and he knows what it looks like. Could you imagine all those people that
> I might of exposed. From that much exposure, cutting and arranging it, I did
> end up with one small rash that lasted two days. I, of course, took it out of
> the arrangements and put in other foliage. I was giving all the arrangements
> away that night. It would have been unbelieveable if my husband hadn't known.
> Chris from Braintree, MA Zone 5