Tor Hershman: It's summertime, summertime, sum, sum, summertime

Firstly, the DVD contest details are two posts down.

Moi'd like to make a DVD recommendation.

WifeyWuMammyMater and moi watched this, public library, DVD yesterday and enjoyed it muchly.
After watchin' the gig I Wikied it. WifeyWuMammyMater, moi and Keith Richards all agree that havin' The Stones follow James Brown 'twere a less than
top-notch idea BUT that's a minor gooflaw; well, it wasn't to Richards but it 'twere to we.

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About twenty years ago, I dug-up a wee, lone plant from over the hill.....we now have more than one-hundred sq. ft., of what we call bluebells, all about The Kanard. This image only relates the true beauty of this vision at a most rudimentary level.
Oh yeah, me 'Chrome Bird' and 'Assemblage' can be viewed, too.

These beautifully scented plants, that we call Purplelasia, moi found about fifteen years ago growing, at the front gate of an abandoned house, near the main post office. I waited till fall, gathered some seeds and we have that which replaces the bluebells, a few weeks unto.

We had one tiny white peony plant 25 yesteryears
(25 years ago when we began The Kanard [a.k.a. The Yard]
we used the expression ‘Green Thumb’ now we know
it’s a ‘Black, Blue and Dirty Thumb’),
now...many.
Way back then, there were some iris leaves but they did not flower. Honeysuckle Hump, the remains of a huge tree stump, is in the fore then background; it aroms, to the olfactory, even more splendorously than it appears to the eye.

This plant is what we call a Fauxcorn. It ‘twas planted by the
non-we part of nature. They grow where they wish and where they wish is, oft times, betwixt bricks.
They can get seven feet tall and have a candelabraesque growth, @ their top, with tiny yellow flowers. Some years, when they decide to appear, after the plant has dried we have painted the stems and tops and they are beautiful, again.

About four years ago, WifeyWuMammyMater Hershman and moi took a long walk that ended in this wee glen beside the riparian way. As we walked though this lovely wee spot moi noticed this plant with four inch long, quite thin, light purple flowers that trumpeted open to about 1.5 inches. One had a seedpod. The pods are two inches and covered with needle sharp spikes. The plant also has a most foul odor. Needless to say we brought the seed pod home, it opened and now we have ‘spikies’ each year. Now spikies, as do fauxcorns, dry and then can be painted to add a MOST interesting nuance to the garden.

Here is porch planter Pumpkie with hard-workin' Lilies Of The Valley, daylilies and other plants behind. Pumpkie has been pumpkinin’ on the porch for many years.
Last winter he had impatiens dreadlocks.

Here’s a pedestal with a
teakettle planter.

Held flower

A much better view of we'in's "Bluebells."

Moi'll update The 2010 Kanard, in this post,
as
time gooooooooes by
if'in, well...you know.

Stay on groovin' safari,
Tor

UPDATE: June 6
If’in ya ever getz some nice veggie leeks and you cut off the bottom/root part, don’t throw them away, plant them for a beautiful perennial. These have yet to open.

Ahhhhhhh, the daylilies begin. Moss & Ivy Wall is behind with teakettle planter and tea tins and grape seed oilcans. The tins and oilcans have artificial flowers. We grew ‘real’ flowers in them but they are soooooo small they’re a pain in the arse, must water everyday, they blow over easily when the plants enlarge.
The cookie tin, with the impressionist paintings, is an old
(post-Augustusmas 90% off) Dutch cookie tin.