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Index of Subjects Oh my, Heather, you are SO right! Am thinking you might have meant to type 'if parents fed thier children, they 'WOULDN'T' eat the house plants.' ...sigh....What has happened to parental, plain commen sense???....from my observations, so many are just totally focused on what their IPHONES spew out! :o( Gayle MacLean Dartmouth ---- Heather Drope <heather.drope@ns.sympatico.ca> wrote: > Following the thread on poison plants.. my late mother was a florist for over > sixty years. Every year at Christmas the 'powers to be' would deem a plant > poisonous and advised not to have it in your house. Many of these were > decorative plants and very common. It took a few years and she came to > realize that they just came up with a new one every year. They did the same > to the gardeners. > We grew up around these plants and hadn't the slightest curiosity on what > they tasted like so she had a hard time figuring out children who may eat one > of these plants and of course get sick. > I sound maybe hard hearted but her favourite comment regarding these toxic > plants was "if the parents fed their children they would need to eat the > house plants" > Now the list of banned plants grow because they include poisoning the family > dog or cat. So I don't understand this whole banned plant thing. > Heather Drope > Nova Scotia Wild Flora Society > www.nswildflora.ca > 902-440-5032 > > We do not see nature with our eyes, > but with our understandings and our hearts. > W. Hazlett
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