Specialty Gardening: Old-Fashioned Names for Flowers, 1 by fleurone

fleurone wrote:
Will catch up later have to go do boring grocery shopping etc.

Heres one for you ..Russian vine aka silver lace vine aka mile a minute vine aka Lemon lace- Fallopia baldschuanica aka Polygonum aubertii

Love the comments here http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/gqt/fsheets/20_01_02/fsheetsq7.s...

especially this bit

Whenever I hear about the Russian vine I think of a story told to me by a lady who used to open her garden occasionally for charity. They had this huge Russian vine, and they decided on this particular occasion to cut it back. When they finally got through to the heart of it they found an old lost wheelbarrow, several footballs, and a hungry, slightly bewildered member of the public who'd gone missing the day before!