Not sure if this is an April Fools Day leftover or real, but it’s an amusing read either way.
Grow-your-own Viagra craze hits Britain’s garden centres
A chance discovery by a Berkshire allotment-holder that a plant widely available in garden centres has the same effect on men as Viagra has been confirmed by experts at one of the world’s leading botanical institutions.
The plant is winter-flowering heather. […] A spokesman for Wyevale Garden Centres, which has 106 UK branches, said: “At first, it was just a trickle of inquiries, but now stores are virtually being besieged each weekend. We have had men buying dozens of the plants and, at one store in Croydon, there were men old enough to know better fighting over the last remaining trays.”
The latest gardening craze was triggered by a discovery by a 55-year-old furniture restorer, Michael Ford, on his allotment. He was always experimenting with drinks made from different plants and one day he tried an infusion from his winter-flowering heather. He said: “The effect was almost immediate. I had to stay in my potting shed for an hour or so before I could decently walk down the street.”
One woman shopping at a Wyvales in Dorking yesterday said: “It’s amazing. My husband has never shown any interest in gardening before, but now he’s out there night and day fussing over his heathers. Frankly, I preferred it when he left the garden to me and wasn’t so frisky.”
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How long will it take the U.S. congress to declare winter-flowering heather either a dangerous drug or a plant of “no medical use” by fiat, like they did with marijuana?
“It’s amazing. My husband has never shown any interest in gardening before, but now he’s out there night and day fussing over his heathers. Frankly, I preferred it when he left the garden to me and wasn’t so frisky.”
Better watch out for those garden fairies. I heard their bites can be fatal.
Sounds like it’s going to be the next extinct plant to me.
From the article:
He said: “The effect was almost immediate. I had to stay in my potting shed for an hour or so before I could decently walk down the street.”
An _hour_? Good grief, did he sprain his wrist? Wonder if you could get 30 mins. using beer instead of the 80 proof vodka….
Great joke, thanks Uncle Dave.
I have the little blue pills, but were are the ladies? Have they gone to Arizona to check out the cactus? LOL.
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