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Topic: The garden's dreary
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Yang Knowflake Posts: 339 From: Somewhere over the Clouds Registered: May 2004
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posted June 14, 2004 04:30 AM
Down here in South Africa it is winter and the garden looks dreary.Where I live we dont get winter rainfall-only in Summer we do. The grass is either dead or dying out.There is hardly any bushes or flowers in bloom.No colour in the garden too.A real dead place to be in. That the scene that is played out every winter in the garden.HOWEVER there is one good thing.The moonflower bush is in bloom.Hooray.
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juniperb Moderator Posts: 5205 From: www.Heaven.Home Registered: Mar 2002
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posted June 14, 2004 09:02 AM
Yang, splurge a little and brighten your home and soul up with colorful house plants. All green and bursting with blooms I understand the blues that come with the dreary colorless days as winter here can be tough on the mind and soul. The plants give me hope and a promise of spring! Color your world with a host of plants and feel the smile on your face ! juniperb ------------------ If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans. ~James Herriot IP: Logged |
Randall Webmaster Posts: 18244 From: Columbus, GA USA Registered: Nov 2000
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posted June 15, 2004 12:09 PM
------------------ "Never mentally imagine for another that which you would not want to experience for yourself, since the mental image you send out inevitably comes back to you." Rebecca Clark IP: Logged |
juniperb Moderator Posts: 5205 From: www.Heaven.Home Registered: Mar 2002
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posted June 15, 2004 01:18 PM
Guess Yangs on a buying expedition ------------------ If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans. ~James Herriot IP: Logged |
Yang Knowflake Posts: 339 From: Somewhere over the Clouds Registered: May 2004
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posted June 15, 2004 03:45 PM
Thanks Guys.Since I am on holidays now for 3 weeks,I have decided to do gardening.Planting,fixing up things etc.LOVE it when I dig my fingers into Mother Earth. IP: Logged |
Yin Knowflake Posts: 260 From: Registered: May 2004
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posted June 16, 2004 03:15 PM
Yang, I LOVE digging with my fingers. HATE the gardening gloves!------------------ "Know thyself" Inscribed on the temple of Apollo at Delphi IP: Logged |
Yang Knowflake Posts: 339 From: Somewhere over the Clouds Registered: May 2004
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posted June 16, 2004 04:39 PM
Gardening gloves take away the pleasure of getting to know Mother nature more intimately. IP: Logged |
Yin Knowflake Posts: 260 From: Registered: May 2004
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posted June 16, 2004 09:05 PM
Yang, your words just warmed up my ------------------ "Know thyself" Inscribed on the temple of Apollo at Delphi IP: Logged |
juniperb Moderator Posts: 5205 From: www.Heaven.Home Registered: Mar 2002
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posted June 16, 2004 09:11 PM
Me too me too. I have permanent stains on my fingers from hand digging and weeding Yang what are you planting? ------------------ If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans. ~James Herriot IP: Logged |
Yang Knowflake Posts: 339 From: Somewhere over the Clouds Registered: May 2004
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posted June 17, 2004 04:14 PM
Yesterday I bought Dianthus, Primulas and these other flowers I cant remember the name.
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juniperb Moderator Posts: 5205 From: www.Heaven.Home Registered: Mar 2002
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posted June 17, 2004 07:18 PM
I Dianthus. I have about a dozen varieties from sweet william to creeping pinks ------------------ If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans. ~James Herriot IP: Logged |
Yang Knowflake Posts: 339 From: Somewhere over the Clouds Registered: May 2004
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posted June 18, 2004 05:01 AM
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Yang Knowflake Posts: 339 From: Somewhere over the Clouds Registered: May 2004
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posted June 18, 2004 05:03 AM
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TINK Knowflake Posts: 909 From: New England Registered: Mar 2003
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posted June 18, 2004 11:49 AM
A batch of primroses! Lovely. Any faeries in there? Also a big fan of pinks. I think they use to call them gillyflowers a long time ago. I especially enjoy the scented sorts. *sniff* *sniff* Mmmm. Spicy. IP: Logged |
juniperb Moderator Posts: 5205 From: www.Heaven.Home Registered: Mar 2002
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posted June 18, 2004 03:02 PM
Oh my goodness Yang Are the primroses all yours Those are the exact Pinks I have in my edging this year . We grow them as annuals but they reseed so beautiful for a bumper crop next year. ------------------ If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans. ~James Herriot IP: Logged |
juniperb Moderator Posts: 5205 From: www.Heaven.Home Registered: Mar 2002
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posted June 18, 2004 03:05 PM
Tink, gillyflowers rings a bell but I can`t place the plant. I swear I just read the name the other day... ------------------ If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans. ~James Herriot IP: Logged |
Yang Knowflake Posts: 339 From: Somewhere over the Clouds Registered: May 2004
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posted June 18, 2004 03:35 PM
Oh,no I just wanted to show you what mine will look like when they bloom later on this year.PS-I forgot to mention I also brought Phlox's
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TINK Knowflake Posts: 909 From: New England Registered: Mar 2003
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posted June 18, 2004 10:59 PM
It's an Elizabethan name, if memory serves. I think that pinks and carnations have a common ancestor which was the gillyflower. IP: Logged |
Randall Webmaster Posts: 18244 From: Columbus, GA USA Registered: Nov 2000
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posted June 19, 2004 10:00 AM
Wow! So many different colors! ------------------ "Never mentally imagine for another that which you would not want to experience for yourself, since the mental image you send out inevitably comes back to you." Rebecca Clark IP: Logged |
juniperb Moderator Posts: 5205 From: www.Heaven.Home Registered: Mar 2002
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posted June 19, 2004 10:25 AM
My insatiable curiosity got the best of me & I had to post this. Ok, truth be told, I can`t remember for crap where I read it so I looked it up GILLYFLOWER, a popular name applied to various flowers, but principally to the clove, Dianthus Caryophyllus, of which the carnation is a cultivated variety, and to the stock, Matthiola incana, a well-known garden favorite. The word is sometimes written gilliflower or gilloflower, and is reputedly a corruption of July-flower, so called from the month they blow in. Henry Phillips (1775-1838), in his Flora /iistorica, remarks that Turner (1568) calls it gelouer, to which he adds the word stock, as we would say gelouers that grow on a stem or stock, to distinguish them from the clove-gelouers and the wall-gelouers. Gerard, who succeeded Turner, and after him Parkinson, calls it gilloflower, and thus it travelled from its original orthography until it was called July-flower by those who knew not whence it was derived. Dr Prior, in his useful volume on the Popular Names of British Plants, very distinctly shows the origin of the name. He remarks that it was formerly spelt gyllofer and gilofre with the o long, from the French giroftde, Italian garofalo (M. Lat. gariofilum), corrupted from the Latin Caryophyllum, and referring to the spicy odour of the flower, which seems to have been used in flavouring wine and other liquors to replace the more costly clove of India. The name was originally given in Italy to plants of the pink tribe, especially the carnation, but has in England been transferred of late years to several crucifrous plants. The gillyflower of Chaucer and Spenser and Shakespeare was, as in Italy, Dianthus Caryophyllus; that of later writers and of gardeners, Maithiola. Much of the confusion in the names of plants has doubtless arisen from the vague use of the French terms girofte, crillet and violette, which were all applied to flowers of the pink tribe, but in England were subsequently extended and finally restricted to very different plants. The use made of the flowers to impart a spicy flavour to ale and wine is alluded to by Chaucer, who writes: And many a clove gilofre To put in ale ; also by Spenser, who refers to them by the name of sops in wine, which was applied in consequence of their being steeped in the liquor. Your memory is mucho better than mine Tink. Thanks for the brain teaser
juniperb * My bold on the Dianthus ------------------ If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans. ~James Herriot IP: Logged |
TINK Knowflake Posts: 909 From: New England Registered: Mar 2003
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posted June 19, 2004 07:47 PM
Neat info Juni. Thanks. I think the first time I came across the word gillyflower was in an interesting old book called Green Darkness. I don't recall the author offering any explanations though so I did a little detective work myself. Although my "detective work" only consisted in asking my mom. She was the Queen of useless, trivial information. I have inherited the gene but not yet surpassed her mark. Don't think I ever will. Hard to believe that was 15 years ago. The first time I read the word "gillyflower", I thought - this is a word druid I have met before. IP: Logged |
juniperb Moderator Posts: 5205 From: www.Heaven.Home Registered: Mar 2002
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posted June 19, 2004 08:09 PM
Tink, I love trivia. The gillyflower is a tantalizing name. It struck me the first time I read it. I wonder what it lexies to ... What is Green Darkness about? Sounds interesting juniperb ------------------ If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans. ~James Herriot IP: Logged |
TINK Knowflake Posts: 909 From: New England Registered: Mar 2003
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posted June 19, 2004 09:25 PM
Reincarnation, karma, catholic monks, England, Twin Souls, Protestant/Catholic problems, murder - good stuff. It occasionally teeters close to the edge of icky Harlequin Romance nonsense but the karmic themes are most intriguing. And I love anything with an historical bent. I snuck it off of mom's bookcase late one night ages and ages ago. I remember reading it by candlelight. What a melodramatic teenager I was! Anyways, my mother always told me reading it had cemented her belief in reincarnation. It just made sense.I often find myself wondering what assorted words would lexi into. Unfortunately, I am the worst lexigramer on the planet. I think because I am an inherently bad speller. I suspect the little word druids won't cooperate with me until I learn to get their letters in the proper order. Frankly, I don't blame them. tink IP: Logged |
Yang Knowflake Posts: 339 From: Somewhere over the Clouds Registered: May 2004
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posted June 20, 2004 08:36 AM
Ooohh, Tink how you make me laugh :laugh:
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Yang Knowflake Posts: 339 From: Somewhere over the Clouds Registered: May 2004
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posted June 20, 2004 08:38 AM
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