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- From: "Liz Pike" <liz AT laughingbrookfarm.com>
- To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
- Subject: Re: privet
- Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2002 13:26:23 -0500
> Don't know about how it does elsewhere, but privet is an invasive species
> here in the South that displaces many native woodland species. Down here,
it
> deserves to be planted with great concern for spreading -- if at all.
Privet drove me to Roundup on more than one occasion.
Where I couldn't spray (when you can't beat them, join them), I ended up
making a twiggy kind of basket from the flexible stems (left leaves
attached) to sell at market. Worked up quick and easy, filled with assorted
stuff, and sold out every time. I also dried the branches bearing the hard
purple berries to use in winter arrangements. In the spring, the blooms
produced an almost sickeningly sweet scent, used a few branches in with my
arrangements. Almost got to the point I wished I had MORE privet...but that
thought went away real quick ; ))
Liz Pike
Laughing Brook Farm
Westfield NC
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privet,
Errol Castens, 11/01/2002
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- Re: privet, Liz Pike, 11/01/2002
- RE: privet, sunnfarm, 11/02/2002
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