At 05:08 PM 5/10/04 +1000, Barbara Stokes wrote: >. . .Queen Anne Lace or Bishops Lace. Nursery > person didn't know of this plant, wasn't in her reference book. As I am >not much of a gardener, does anyone know this?
Around here, "Queen Anne's Lace" means the wild carrot, which is a weed in its native habitat, so I'm quite sure it would be illegal to import it to Australia. >My description would be >a perennial bush with a large head of delicate white tiny flowers. It does look like a bush when it is in bloom, but the Queen Anne's Lace I know is a biennial herb: it makes a carrot one year (a scrawny white thing that's stringy and much too strong of flavor, not having been bred up like the domesticated varieties) and blooms the following year. Common names have a way of being re-used for lots of different plants, though. -- Joy Beeson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.earthlink.net/~joybeeson/ http://home.earthlink.net/~beeson_n3f/ west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where the thunderstorms passed by to the north. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
