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That is true, sadly!

I'm glad that I live in a very small town surrounded by farmland, with a bicycle/walking trail where the old railroad tracks used to be when I was little. I used to go picking wild raspberries amongst the trees just off the path a few years back, but once the West Nile Virus scare came into effect strongly (and there are LOADS of mosquitoes amongst the trees), I stopped going to gather the raspberries. :o/

Gemini

Just a follow-up to my own post.... I called to ask about the Trilliums because if it wasn't still in effect about picking them, I would have loved to transplant (not pick) a few for my own flowerbed. :o) You can buy cultivated ones to plant in your garden... I just haven't gotten around to doing so yet.

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Well you Could buy a tiny pot every week , or some herb with a nice smell ,,, Every tin y present counts !!!! mirjam

Here we SAVED the flowers when it was FORBIDDEN to pick them ,,,, i started taking PHOTOS of flowers ,,and i plant waht i can ... mirjam

I pick them, too. We grow them in our yard. We started out with one of those "Wildflower Meadow in a Can" that was a father's day gift, I think. Some of the flowers did well and self-seed now. Others didn't last the first year. Real Darwinian Natural Selection at work in our yard.

Yes, West Nile!

I tell you, if it's not one thing it's another. ;-))

Murielle

Olwyn Mary,

I do hope you are following orders to take it easy!! Hope you feel better soon. Take care.

just me, Cathy from KY in CA

ROTFL!!!!! Bruce, you might want to stick with *potted* plants....they're not illegal!

Sorry, I couldn't resist and I'm surprised no one else picked up on this before me!

Joan

It must be a local idiom - people tend to say "pot plant" rather than "potted plant". But there have been several cases, including one not too far from here, where people have grown illegal plants - purely for medicinal purposes of course.

Where I grew up in SE England and where I now live in NW England the term would also be "pot plant".

Lizzy

Yup, that's the term in NZ too, so I suspect it's very common in the UK and therefore NZ and Australia too. Nobody calls anything a "potted plant" around here.

VP

LOL - I think this is one of those differences in our common language. As I recall, IME, the phrase "pot plant" referring to what we'd call a "potted plant" was common in all the part of the UK that I visited/lived. So, I don't think it's a local idiom. Kind of like "commentator" - here we just say someone "commenting" not "commentating".

ellice

And just to confuse the issue - does the USA have an equivalent to British "delicacy" potted meat? Cue disgusting retching sounds blech, ptui, ptah, ptah etc...

We do have potted meat, but I don't know if it is the same product you get in the UK or not. Our potted meat is a somewhat salty, tinned meat paste, made from mysterious meat parts. AFAIK, it is served cold spread on crackers or in sandwiches.

Potted meat, mysterious as it's source may be, is far superior to SPAM "luncheon meat" (gag), which is truly nasty.

me

I suspect the two things are products of the same process; "machine recovered meat", a process whereby the bones of butchered creatures are blasted with high pressure water to remove any remaining traces of meat. The resulting watery slurry is then scraped from the floor and compressed to remove most of the water.

I was born and raised in the US and I'm happy to report that I've never seen or heard of what you call potted meat and you know what, I don't think I'm missing anything. It sounds ich, ach, ptui and if indeed it's worse than SPAM, it must be truly horrific.

Lucille