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Wow, those leaves look like swiss chard!! What an interesting plant.
Quote from: maggiepie on December 01, 2009, 02:10:04 PMWow, those leaves look like swiss chard!! What an interesting plant.But as the old botanists were wont to say, it's for "the gardens of the curious." Mandragora officinarum is not, no matter which way you cut it or chop the logic, a "pretty" plant. In fact, it's downright ugly. If you want to adorn your perennial beds and rock gardens with something that looks like a slightly delusional Swiss chard, mandrake's your boy, however.
But as the old botanists were wont to say, it's for "the gardens of the curious." Mandragora officinarum is not, no matter which way you cut it or chop the logic, a "pretty" plant. In fact, it's downright ugly. If you want to adorn your perennial beds and rock gardens with something that looks like a slightly delusional Swiss chard, mandrake's your boy, however.
I love mandrakes I think they are beautiful .Glorious flowers and the colours wow .What do botanist know of beauty. I shall now write a poem in celebration of the mandrake .Oh mandrake what beauty in thy celestial note, how must better than a chop in the frote Amongst your leaves of greenest dye more glory than a thumb in the eye .Come on you lot admit it I'm good ha ha ah