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2007-06-02 Thread RicTorr8
In a message dated 6/1/2007 9:22:18 A.M. Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Whilst I have heard of hemlock, I don't know the plant. That's what Socrates said, according to Steve Martin, if you ever saw that skit he did on the Death of Socrates. He was sitting chatting

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2007-06-01 Thread Barb ETx
Queen Annes Lace.when I was but a girl, my Mom would gather QAL, and set it in water with food color added, Voila! The arranged in vasepale pink, blue and yellow to set off the white. I have thought of drying itbut it is not so available here... Smiles, BarbE Nata #72 Texas USA

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2007-06-01 Thread David in Ballarat
G'day Susie, Your nature lace choices are nice also. Could the one with fern like leaves and a white flower be yarrow? Nope - I've got Yarrow, although my flower is pink. And then there is one that some take as Queen Anne's lace which is really Hemlock, a poisonous plant. Ingestion of

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2007-06-01 Thread David in Ballarat
Barb, Queen Annes Lace.when I was but a girl, my Mom would gather QAL, and set it in water with food color added, Voila! The arranged in vasepale pink, blue and yellow to set off the white. I have thought of drying itbut it is not so available here... That's what I do with

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2007-06-01 Thread Linda Bill Mitchell
DH's degree is in Botany so when I started telling him plant stuff he was skeptical. When I told him that the way to tell the difference between wild carrot and Queen Anne's Lace (which I've loved since childhood) is that QAL has a purple flower in the center; wild carrot/cow parsley doesn't.

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2007-06-01 Thread Ilske Thomsen
Hello Everybody, to this theme I too have something. We have a big parc in the western part of HH named Dahliengarten - dahlia-garden. What means the huge parc is full of dahlias, every color every shape. And one day years ago I saw under a white very fine and with pointed ends written

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2007-06-01 Thread Sue
And talking about stinkhorn fungus how is that project faring David? Sue M Harvey Norfolk UK -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David in Ballarat Sent: 01 June 2007 15:45 To: lace@arachne.com Subject: [lace] Q.A. Lace continued Dear

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2007-06-01 Thread clayblackwell
HA!! Until you mentioned it, Sue, I had completely forgotten the project!! But, I am also interested in seeing how it is going, David!! Clay -- Original message -- From: Sue [EMAIL PROTECTED] And talking about stinkhorn fungus how is that project faring David?

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2007-06-01 Thread David in Ballarat
At 06:34 AM 2/06/2007, Sue wrote: And talking about stinkhorn fungus how is that project faring David? Haven't started yet Sue. Never fear I'll let you know when I do. It's not due till Nov and the lace itself should only take a week or so. It's the background drawing which will take the