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[Joey Gates <joeydianag AT gmail.com>]

Hi Eric,

 

I just found some in a seed/plant catalog that is hardy in our zone.  It was in Richters from Canada:

 

http://www.richters.com/Web_store/web_store.cgi?product=X4320&show=&prodclass=F015&cart_id=1275657.19362

 

It looks like it has some other great uses too.

 

Joey

On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 5:55 PM, Jon Bosak <bosak AT pinax.com> wrote:

Micheal Wheeler wrote:

-- I remember an article (¿in Coevolution Quarterly?) about living fences, and remember figures about weaving the stems together to make a cordon.  The military was so impressed that Belgian fences could stop a WWI tank that they took the word into their own lexicon. [proof-reading that last sentence it sure sounds like an urban legend]

Probably so.  The oldest use of the word "cordon" refers to a kind
of fortification and first appears in written English in 1598,
whereas "cordon" meaning "a fruit-tree made by pruning to grow as
a single stem (usually as an espalier or wall tree)" first appears
in 1878.  So it appears that the military use gave the name to the
living fence rather than the other way around.

Jon

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