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frank_underwood
Columbia, SC
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| 1. Tree of Heaven (Ailanthus) |
| 2. Poison Ivy (Toxicodendron) |
| 3. Tobacco (Nicotiana) |
| 4. Wisteria |
| 5. English Ivy (Hedera) |
| 6. Florida Poison Tree (Metopium) |
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| 8/14/2013 5:58:55 PM |
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frank_underwood
Columbia, SC
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I am considering my vote...
But how did kudzu not make the cut?
Or geraniums? I hate those ugly buggars.
Ok i am decided. Poison ivy for me... very allergic. 
Wrong! Poison Ivy is a native plant with excellent red fall coloration. Once you learn how to recognize it, it is no longer a problem sidestepping it. Ignorance is no excuse.
Geraniums?  Scented Geraniums are heavenly & Pelargonium graveolens is distilled for essential oil.
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| 8/15/2013 3:44:13 PM |
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frank_underwood
Columbia, SC
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Tobacco, by far, is the most evil plant in the world, because it has killed so many people, & others make tons of money manufacturing it, so that it can kill more people 
Wisteria is the second most evil plant, because of the environmental degradation is causes. It is a popular landscape vine that flowers fragrantly in the springtime. However, it is voracious, growing horizontal runners that easily escape cultivation & invade our natural ecosystems. It can strangle a tree & even pull a small tree down. Legislation needs to be created prohibiting it's continued sale; however, vendors make too much money selling it, unethically.
Tree of Heaven ranks third, aka, the Tree of Hell, or Ghetto Palm. A Chinese tree that has become North America's most common urban weed. It tolerates pollution well, it very fast growing, & spreads like fire. It is malodorous, especially in flower, being pollinated by flies. Copious seeds are wind dispersed. It is called Tree of Heaven because the thick branches always point skyward; it is strongly negatively geotropic
You're right, guess this was a test. Perhaps someone would like to debate, or suggest alternatives
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| 8/16/2013 6:42:04 PM |
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frank_underwood
Columbia, SC
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Kudzu is an oriental legume like Wisteria, the difference being that Kudzu is herbaceous & Wisteria is woody. Kudzu is also more localized & rural. Kudzu is edible & even medicinal, although often contaminated with herbicide. It might be easier to eradicate than Wisteria
Kudzu was used to control erosion & improve soils through nitrogen fixation. It can be eaten by grazing animal;s like goats.
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| 8/17/2013 3:06:11 PM |
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tango159
Gainesville, FL
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actually tobacco has some medicinal properties also, ive known people to buy a pack to treat bee stings.
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| 8/17/2013 6:00:43 PM |
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cupocheer
Assumption, IL
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KUDZO
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| 8/18/2013 5:27:05 AM |
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frank_underwood
Columbia, SC
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Who is audrey 2?
The best cure for poison ivy: oatmeal soap
Wash infected areas with oatmeal soap. Allow to soak in, actually scratch it in. You need to open the sores & allow the oatmeal to dissolve the poison ivy oil away.
The allergen is an oil & can spread. Sweating makes it spread.
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| 8/18/2013 6:39:41 AM |
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frank_underwood
Columbia, SC
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| 8/18/2013 11:09:30 PM |
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tango159
Gainesville, FL
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Kudzu is an oriental legume like Wisteria, the difference being that Kudzu is herbaceous & Wisteria is woody. Kudzu is also more localized & rural. Kudzu is edible & even medicinal, although often contaminated with herbicide. It might be easier to eradicate than Wisteria
Kudzu was used to control erosion & improve soils through nitrogen fixation. It can be eaten by grazing animal;s like goats.
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| 8/18/2013 11:12:46 PM |
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tango159
Gainesville, FL
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peyote appears the only 1 wo medicinal or food value.
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| 8/20/2013 7:58:04 PM |
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jerseyjon
Mantua, NJ
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actually poison sumac is far worse than poison ivy.But some sumac is edible and looks nice in the garden. You can make sumac tea or they did back when they didnt have snapple
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| 8/21/2013 11:30:20 AM |
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frank_underwood
Columbia, SC
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Poison Sumac is uncommon & only grows in swamps. Poison Ivy grows everywhere. It can be a vine up a tree, a ground-cover, or a shrubbery. It is a thornless trifoliate
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| 8/23/2013 5:12:23 AM |
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jerseyjon
Mantua, NJ
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Poison Sumac is uncommon & only grows in swamps. Poison Ivy grows everywhere. It can be a vine up a tree, a ground-cover, or a shrubbery. It is a thornless trifoliate
true,what about poison oak?
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| 8/23/2013 6:11:45 AM |
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frank_underwood
Columbia, SC
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Poison Oak (Toxicodendron diversilobum) is basically the same thing as Poison Ivy (Toxicodendron pubescens), with the former in western US & the later in eastern US.
Toxicodendron is commonly confused with Parthenocissus, the Virginia Creeper, which has 5 leaflets instead of 3. Virginia Creeper occasionally makes 3 leaflets, but Poison Ivy never makes 5 leaflets. Toxicodendron climbs with hairy rootlets, whereas Virginia creeper climbs by suckering tendrils
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| 8/23/2013 12:53:36 PM |
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jerseyjon
Mantua, NJ
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i know that frank .thanks
castor beans are the most evil by the way,They make sarin poison
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| 8/23/2013 12:58:30 PM |
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jerseyjon
Mantua, NJ
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or ricin rather. one castor bean could kill a human
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| 8/23/2013 2:01:57 PM |
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frank_underwood
Columbia, SC
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Otherwise it's a harmless landscape plant & very ornamental, not evil, poisons are useful occasionally
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| 8/24/2013 2:09:31 AM |
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fishnthec
Mesquite, TX
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I would say the poppy has probably ruined more lives than any other plant.
2ndly I would say the Erythroxylum Coca plant is up there along with it!
But then again, it's probably not the plants fault. It is what man has done with them that has made them such killers and life destroyers!
So NEVERMIND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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| 8/24/2013 4:31:11 AM |
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frank_underwood
Columbia, SC
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So NEVERMIND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
About half of China is addicted to opium. However, opium & cocaine do not kill people, relatively like tobacco does.
Seems like we have a tobacco jerky here
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| 8/24/2013 4:32:44 AM |
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frank_underwood
Columbia, SC
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Horticulture is full of poisonous plants: Oleander is fare more poisonous than Castor Bean
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| 8/28/2013 12:13:56 PM |
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frank_underwood
Columbia, SC
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try nuclear
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| 9/5/2013 6:55:20 AM |
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frank_underwood
Columbia, SC
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Weedy shrubbery like Ligustrum & Eleagnus are evil because they deteriorate our local environments. Left unpruned, they flower, fruit & set seed, giving rise to weeds. Ligustrum is especially common, especially on the coastal plain of SC, where this nuisance plant outcompetes natives. Nurseries that sell these plants suck
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| 9/5/2013 7:16:08 AM |
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tango159
Gainesville, FL
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So are you saying they kill a garden's fong schway?
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| 9/5/2013 7:16:56 AM |
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nothingisreal
Harrison, MI
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Tobaco has to be the number 1 killer.
That's a No Brainer.
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| 9/9/2013 11:53:52 AM |
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tango159
Gainesville, FL
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In contrast to ur ranking system, Frank, how do GMOs factor in given how they are often mislabeled?
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| 9/16/2013 6:40:55 AM |
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frank_underwood
Columbia, SC
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In contrast to ur ranking system, Frank, how do GMOs factor in given how they are often mislabeled?
 stay away from processed food
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| 9/16/2013 6:41:57 AM |
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frank_underwood
Columbia, SC
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my trichocerous peruvianus is blooming!
are you eating it?
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| 10/14/2013 7:09:57 PM |
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frank_underwood
Columbia, SC
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The number one most evil plant in my yard is the phallus mushroom. After a good rain or so a few dozen emerge from the mulch and torment me as I walk to and fro the house. Won't even think about gardening around them unless I have a partner. It seems they lean towards me as I walk by knowing I'm in dire need of some fertilization. Ah...the perils of being single, unlaid, and surrounded by phallus mushrooms. 
 Technically, fungi are not plants. Stinkhorns are evil bastards, but that's what you get for using wood chips as mulch. If you find them young, they can be dug up & disposed of, before they go fetid
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| 10/16/2013 10:33:58 PM |
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tango159
Gainesville, FL
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I would more question Peyote than anything. of many plants superficially indicated as a poison, some have medicinal values including tobacco for some bloodpressure issues. Peyote is only indicated as a hallucinogen.
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| 11/2/2013 5:49:19 AM |
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frank_underwood
Columbia, SC
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Crabgrass , I have a raging war going on .
dig with a shovel, lawns are over-rated
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| 11/2/2013 10:25:51 PM |
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doubletrouble77
Crete, IL
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Surrounded by it
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| 11/3/2013 7:18:46 AM |
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frank_underwood
Columbia, SC
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Surrounded by it
second hand smoke?
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| 11/25/2013 9:27:34 PM |
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frank_underwood
Columbia, SC
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After reading earlier comments about Wisterias, I tried to look up more information without much luck. I assume that what everyone is referring to is when a plant is NEAR a fence, building, tree and so on??? I've had one in the middle of my yard for the past 18 years that (knock on wood) I've never had any problems with. Is this because it's not planted near anything to attach to (And I do cut it back each fall) or is there a root system working it's way through the yard that's going to sneak up on me eventually?
In the SE, Wisteria is one of the most evil plants, second only to tobacco & Tree of Heaven. Wisteria spreads by running with horizontal stolons. The wood is quite hard & tough to cut. Anything is climbs on is ruined. It is South Carolinas No. 1 environmental catastrophe.
Perhaps you are too far north for it to be a problem. Count you blessings
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| 11/28/2013 8:42:39 AM |
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frank_underwood
Columbia, SC
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Nurseries are sources of misinformation; they want to sell plants, not inform the community. Wisteria's stolons are above ground & easy to see & trip over. I would recommend burning yours. There are plenty of good vines available like Gloriosa
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| 11/29/2013 4:47:42 PM |
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frank_underwood
Columbia, SC
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The only thing worse than tobacco is obesity
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| 12/6/2013 5:13:59 AM |
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frank_underwood
Columbia, SC
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^ well-said, even if you are a cigarette-wh*re
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| 1/18/2014 9:28:36 AM |
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frank_underwood
Columbia, SC
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The fact that Poison Ivy is winning this poll, only goes to show how ignorant Americans are about plants, and their inability to easily recognize Poison Ivy, even if it is growing in their yard
Florida Betony (Stachys floridana)
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| 4/27/2014 5:29:46 PM |
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naturesbounty
Plantsville, CT
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I am allergic to it. I broke out last summer moving plants around in the yard and was covered neck down to my calf with pain the a** rash. And did it itch.....thank God for meds.
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| 5/6/2014 4:22:57 PM |
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frank_underwood
Columbia, SC
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it is some bad a** vine here in FL
There are a lot of bad-ass vines in FL. On nasty one is Skunk Vine, Paederia foetida, an exotic Chinese Rubiaceae groundcover
My old lady's got the blues
Skunkvine & Beggar's Tick blues
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| 5/29/2014 10:07:37 AM |
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fastpony
Hammond, IN
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im surprised that no one mentioned spearmint.
this crap grows along the ground and it spreads.
we had a neighbor next door that never took care of anything,and just let it go all to hell.
the problem is....
in a neighborhood setting,we had a chainlink fence that separated our yards.
he had the ivy bushes,and those grew 8 ft tall and houvered over my rose bushes,as well as twining itself through the fence,and strangling whatyever it is that I had growing.
ironically,his home was deemed unlivable,so they tore it down.
I went over to his side and yanked the hell out of the roots,and got rid of the main stumps it was growing from.
but this annoying spearmint crap keeps wandering under the fence,and although it only creeps 8 inches over to my side,you either love the smell,or you cant stand it.
I swear,the only solution is pouring gas along his side,and completely killing whatever is still growing.
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| 5/30/2014 6:58:46 AM |
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frank_underwood
Columbia, SC
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im surprised that no one mentioned spearmint.
this crap grows along the ground and it spreads.
we had a neighbor next door that never took care of anything,and just let it go all to hell.
the problem is....
in a neighborhood setting,we had a chainlink fence that separated our yards.
he had the ivy bushes,and those grew 8 ft tall and houvered over my rose bushes,as well as twining itself through the fence,and strangling whatyever it is that I had growing.
ironically,his home was deemed unlivable,so they tore it down.
I went over to his side and yanked the hell out of the roots,and got rid of the main stumps it was growing from.
but this annoying spearmint crap keeps wandering under the fence,and although it only creeps 8 inches over to my side,you either love the smell,or you cant stand it.
I swear,the only solution is pouring gas along his side,and completely killing whatever is still growing.
That's like saying there is too much sweet p*ssy in the world 
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| 5/30/2014 6:59:29 PM |
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fastpony
Hammond, IN
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at your age,im surprised your taste buds even know the difference.
your attack was lame.
sopme like the smell of spearmint,and personally...im not crazy about my yard smelling like wrigleys gum.
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| 5/31/2014 6:21:53 AM |
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frank_underwood
Columbia, SC
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Mints are mildly invasive, big deal, Pisces is just a drama queen
Mints are best grown as container plants. Peppermint is one of the most useful medicinal plants in the world. Only a fool would consider a mint evil
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| 5/31/2014 8:34:32 AM |
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fastpony
Hammond, IN
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I don't see any drama
true,that type of plant is more appropriate in a container.
if you paid more attention to what I said,instead of playing the Fonz in a gardening thread....
I have a variety of different roses that grow,gardenias too.
the scent of mint doesn't exactly fit in too well.
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| 5/31/2014 11:15:45 AM |
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frank_underwood
Columbia, SC
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fastpony
Pisces Tiger (1974)
yin water & yang wood
a indisputable drama queen meets an intemperate mouth
denying your obvious drama is drama itself, so go pour gasoline on the mint
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| 5/31/2014 1:34:19 PM |
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fastpony
Hammond, IN
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actually,i was outside putting down mulch in my flower beds,and planting more stuff.
wanna see pictures?
you made a dumb a** comment,and you got a response to it.
you have some great posts,but life's gotta be pretty boring for you if you stalk peoples profiles to see what sign they are.
im surprised you didn't send me a wink.
the only thing ive seen,is you following everyones posts in here.
that's great.
lord almighty,please forgive me for arguing with a 58 yr old guy,because I talked bad about the scent of mint.
you need to mellow out a bit,old man.
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| 5/31/2014 2:31:18 PM |
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frank_underwood
Columbia, SC
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fastpony was a flash in the pan
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| 6/14/2014 3:05:19 PM |
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pdforone
Litchfield, OH
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Tobacco, and it's legal.
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| 6/25/2014 10:21:49 PM |
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gurrrr529
Purcell, OK
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Thistles
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| 7/2/2014 12:54:35 PM |
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albyak
Parrott, GA
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Trip on some Devil's club in Alaska and you all will change your mind
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| 9/10/2014 6:10:00 AM |
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frank_underwood
Columbia, SC
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Tobacco, and it's legal.
First hand, second hand, it's a family affair!
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| 10/1/2014 11:46:51 PM |
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friendlyholly
Johnson City, TN
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i will tell you the most evil plant and that would bee poke berry or poision hemlock
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| 10/16/2014 2:27:06 PM |
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yg27587
Wake Forest, NC
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The most evil plant in the world is.....................
frank_underwood!....  ....Why?
1. Has a bunch of blue stars under his name which means....
2. He spends too much time on DH while chastising other members for using Nicotiana....
3. Is a liberal SC Redneck and a....
4. Communist Catholic that smokes an entire carton of Unfiltered Camel Cigarettes DAILY!
5. And complains about the effects of second-hand smoke on other
Hey frankie boy - lets go BURN ONE!..
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| 10/16/2014 6:20:35 PM |
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frank_underwood
Columbia, SC
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Drug addicts are always pointing their finger at the messenger
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| 10/17/2014 5:40:24 AM |
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yg27587
Wake Forest, NC
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Drug addicts are always pointing their finger at the messenger
Whatzzz the matter?
Haven't had your nicotine 'Fix' this morning underwood?
Don't fret ...
I just rolled Ya a Big 'Ole Dubee with my home-grown....
Let's go BURN ONE frankie boy!..... 
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| 10/17/2014 6:36:28 AM |
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frank_underwood
Columbia, SC
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Juvenile delinquents get blocked & this time you'll rot in blocked hell b*tch
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| 10/17/2014 6:20:22 PM |
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sweetlime4u
Ocala, FL
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What a Hateful Old Person!...
UGH!
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| 11/5/2014 4:48:00 AM |
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frank_underwood
Columbia, SC
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i will tell you the most evil plant and that would bee poke berry or poision hemlock
Poke is edible in the Spring. Blacks eat poke greens
Poison Hemlock is an old world plant & useful
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| 11/5/2014 8:12:59 PM |
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parie3
Florence, SC
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My mom gave me sweet shrub seeds? I planted a few and they multiplied like they were on steroids. It is a real nuisance in the flower bed and could not keep it under control unless I de-seeded it prior to dropping. Do you have any suggestions on how to eliminate it? I dug all I could up but it just came back.
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| 11/6/2014 10:51:33 PM |
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frank_underwood
Columbia, SC
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Carolina Sweet Shrub is my favorite plant in the world
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