Graceful and Charming...
May. 3rd, 2009 06:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
felis_lupusThe first perfect little blue flower on my one surviving forget-me-not plant. I love these little guys... They're here for such a short time in spring, but so welcome when they are. It's said that one should keep a forget-me-not in one's locket for True Love. Several other mushy and romantic (but tragic) stories are associated with this delicate little blue blossom; a medieval German knight is said to have been picnicking on the bank of the Danube with his lady love. He descended the bank to the water’s edge to gather some of the lovely blue flowers he saw there, but while he was near the water, tragedy struck. A “freshet” (flash flood) suddenly appeared and pulled the young man into the churning river. As he was literally swept away, he tossed the bouquet to his lady on the bank with the three now-famous words: “Forget me not!” Ah, l'amour... la tragédie...
This particular plant is half-buried in my chives, and I'd be concerned for it if it weren't a biennial and going to be gone at the end of the year. Hopefully it will have lots of little children that decide to sprinkle themselves around on the ground. (oh, dear lord... there's a TV show in England called Fifi and the Flowertots, where Fifi is an anthropomorphic forget-me-not, voiced by Jane Horrocks... I'm not quite sure how I feel about this...)
Planted 2 6-pks of Kohlrabi yesterday, and got a good jump on this year's Haus Wanderstamm Traveling Herb Garden. Planted new strawberries in their new pot, dug a clump of chives out of the lawn and potted them up, and then ran out of potting soil... I'll get some tomorrow (I get a day off! for reals, this time!) and pot up the sage, rosemary, parsley, and hopefully will find a clump of thyme somewhere that needs a home. Got a wonderful new pot for the rosemary this year; nice heavy terra cotta with olive leaves ringing it. Simply fabulous.
This particular plant is half-buried in my chives, and I'd be concerned for it if it weren't a biennial and going to be gone at the end of the year. Hopefully it will have lots of little children that decide to sprinkle themselves around on the ground. (oh, dear lord... there's a TV show in England called Fifi and the Flowertots, where Fifi is an anthropomorphic forget-me-not, voiced by Jane Horrocks... I'm not quite sure how I feel about this...)
Planted 2 6-pks of Kohlrabi yesterday, and got a good jump on this year's Haus Wanderstamm Traveling Herb Garden. Planted new strawberries in their new pot, dug a clump of chives out of the lawn and potted them up, and then ran out of potting soil... I'll get some tomorrow (I get a day off! for reals, this time!) and pot up the sage, rosemary, parsley, and hopefully will find a clump of thyme somewhere that needs a home. Got a wonderful new pot for the rosemary this year; nice heavy terra cotta with olive leaves ringing it. Simply fabulous.
