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Beautiful display there cheerful colour, the only plant you should never take into the house as the old saying goes will sweep all the luck out, how right it is too, as I done this forgeting the saying and have had bad luck ever since.

25 May, 2010

amy
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I've never heard that with broom although it makes sense with a name like that ... I'm sure it was coinsidence 6p how can beautiful flowers bring us bad luck ?

25 May, 2010

 

I know this saying, too, 6d!!!! My Mum would never let us bring sprigs of this into the house when we were kids - well-meant as our bouquets were. She went through them and discarded the broom. Therefore, have always regarded the humble Rowan tree as an "antidote" to the lovely broom. Grow a Rowan by the garden gate, to protect your home from witches, and general bad luck.
You need to plant a whole lot of those Oxalis deppei ( known also as "lucky" plants, methinks? :-)))

25 May, 2010

 

LOL David, for the Rowan, I am the witch. Hence that is why I was placed next door to Salem Chapel, no lie the truth. There are two Rowan trees over hangs my garden and one seeded by my back gate, so I am trapped here now.

25 May, 2010

 

That's interesting, David. Isn't this plantagenesta? the broom of the Plantagenets? Is that why it's thought unlucky???

14 Jun, 2010



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