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Tuesday, June 16, 2020
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GARDENING IN A PANDEMIC Welcome back, friends. (I write as though there is actually an audience out there. This type of delusion is co... -
This is the tropical version of the daylily. It is called Lily-of-the-Nile by close friends and associates. Incidentally, we are in mid Jun...
A new flower to me. We have so few truly blue flowers in our temperate climate. This one is so pretty.
ReplyDeleteThank you for stopping by, Alana.
DeleteBlue is the official color of the pandemic (I made that up, but increasingly I am tending to believe the pandemic is a false figment of my febrile imagination and that I may, for time to time, make official proclamations secure in the knowledge that no one else is listening or adversely affected).
Hello Prospero!
ReplyDeleteIt is wonderful to see this new blog of yours. You are good at keeping things fresh! Like your cartoons hmmm... wondering now if I should include other things in my postings now.
Agapanthus thrive and bear wonderful blooms like yours at highland places here. The lily that flower well is the white spider lily Hymenocallis and an orange Hippeastrum hybrid.
I notice you have a garden design post, going to it after this...
But I was mightily impressed with how you have branched out and how you have grown your blog. Also, you have shown incredible persistence--as you have been on blogger since the Pliocene--and that is a great trait to have in one's back pocket. You truly adore gardening and your love and enthusiasm radiates.
Deletei see it is called African Lily or the Flower of Love here, in Sicily... is the Nile in Africa? that might explain it!
ReplyDeleteand flower of love: The name is derived from Greek: ἀγάπη (agapē – "love"), ἄνθος (anthos – "flower"). again, those Greeks!
but of course wiki tells me these are not actually lilies, go figure :-)
Yes, I am in denial about the multitude of common names for this charmer (and about the bad jokes particularly associated with Lily-of-the-Nile).
DeleteNot actual lilies ... the problem with common names is that they are usually unrelated to factual matters. A little bit like pandemic politics.
i don't know any bad jokes about this plant, i think the name Agapanthus is impressive though :-)
ReplyDeleteThe joke is about the denial/the Nile double entendre, as in, Cleopatra, Queen Of Denial (Pam Tillis). Guess you have to be Egyptian to appreciate such tepid, murky-watered humor.
Deleteah!
Deleteor to have heard of Pan Tillis and her Queen :-))