OT/: Grow-your-own Viagra craze hits Britain's garden centres

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I think Pfizer's earnings will have erectile dysfunction now. Ohhh -

the wonders of natural plants!

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/health_medical/article2411405.ece

Grow-your-own Viagra craze hits Britain's garden centres

By Randall

Published: 01 April 2007

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, and botanists at the Royal

Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh, many of them heather experts who have

recognised the source of its active ingredient, now expect it to be

the next must-have plant in British gardens. Demand is already high.

Nurseries and garden centres in some areas are having trouble finding

sufficient supplies as word spreads of the plant's unexpected properties.

FULL STORY:

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/health_medical/article2411405.ece