tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6849167564811493528.post3898203091364914707..comments2024-01-31T04:09:28.704+00:00Comments on SILVERTREEDAZE: DULL OPIATE TO THE BRAINSPlant Mad Nigehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01051715161395516677noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6849167564811493528.post-10419788339217170202012-02-17T06:05:48.319+00:002012-02-17T06:05:48.319+00:00I have a great collection of poppies in the garden...I have a great collection of poppies in the garden! They are so associated with my childhood and the inclination to music, especially to Tchaikovsky! All this stuff makes me more energy and endeavor!Uriskohttp://www.wbahealth.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6849167564811493528.post-6869637531302190362012-02-08T11:37:05.849+00:002012-02-08T11:37:05.849+00:00>>I'm listening to Tchaikovsky's ope...>>I'm listening to Tchaikovsky's opera Eugene Onegin with the magnificent Thomas Allen in the title role. - Yeah, my first encounter with Tchaikovsky began with Onegin too. Classical music inspires.Luohttp://www.mspy.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6849167564811493528.post-17616639768848627982011-07-07T23:20:27.012+01:002011-07-07T23:20:27.012+01:00Wonderful poppies, so beautiful and sadly so trans...Wonderful poppies, so beautiful and sadly so transient.<br /><br />I don't know enough to debate the GM position particularly well, but if wheat was meant to have mint AND animal material in it, don't you think Mother Nature would have already put it there. Once upon a time man thought Agent Orange and Thalidomide were good ideas ... how long is it going to take for the world to come to its senses about GM?<br /><br />And because I am childish and cannot resist, you are right about this week's film but missed out the essential quote: <i>"You're only supposed to blow the bloody doors off" ....</i>BilboWagginshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06913801147278606148noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6849167564811493528.post-64755772794214099622011-06-29T23:07:52.293+01:002011-06-29T23:07:52.293+01:00I don't understand much of the science behind ...I don't understand much of the science behind GM, but one of my least favourite jobs is spraying insecticides. Admittedly they are a lot better than the jollop we used in the 70's and 80's, but they are still too broadbrush for my liking, and I worry about the effect on non pest insects.Guardedly, I would welcome mint enhanced wheat if it ever got the go-ahead.David, Little Omenden Farm and Nurseryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13955877094820632300noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6849167564811493528.post-52745882634149597702011-06-28T07:43:06.802+01:002011-06-28T07:43:06.802+01:00Thanks for all your lovely comments.
Victoria - ...Thanks for all your lovely comments. <br /><br />Victoria - I had a small bet with myself that you'd be first. And I so agree, that couplet simply doesn't work for modern English because 'drains' doesn't mean 'lees' or 'dregs' to us.<br /><br />VP and Esther - interesting that your observations re blackberries coincide with mine. I wonder if the Woodland Trust spokespeople are confusing true blackberries with early 'cloudberries' or 'dewberries.'<br /><br />James - I prefer not to use 'bush' when referring to blackberries because they aren't really bushes. Brambles or briars works better, I think. But I've never thought of a bramble as exactly cuddly - usually, when I come into contact with them, blood is drawn.<br /><br />Hort Williams - yes, I agree. All our poppies, here, are self seeded. Haven't sown a packet of seeds in years.<br /><br />Nell Jean - the Rev. Wilkes - who was also Secretary of the RHS - began his strain of Shirley poppies from a single pink-flowered form which he discovered in the wild. From this, he selected first, for pink petals with yellow stamens and eventually managed to come up with a colour break: a form with lemon-coloured petals and yellow stamens.<br /><br />John Lord; Elephants Eye - I think we have to step back from emotive issues, and look at the biology of DNA as objectively as we can. It may, or may not be an area of applied science where some solutions to the increasing food crisis can be found. We may not know, yet, but I think we should have a good look and arm ourselves with knowledge, before we judge. <br />Seems to me, that too many people have made up their minds already, without opening their eyes and ears. As for that Naan - I think I'd rather add my own mint - the scientists would be sure to use the wrong variety!Plant Mad Nigehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01051715161395516677noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6849167564811493528.post-20572569040356632922011-06-27T10:37:18.643+01:002011-06-27T10:37:18.643+01:00Wheat with mint genes? - great for baking naan bre...Wheat with mint genes? - great for baking naan bread.John Lordhttp://ratoathgardencentre.ienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6849167564811493528.post-83658680676368480212011-06-26T18:36:20.790+01:002011-06-26T18:36:20.790+01:00I like some poppies a lot. Find others repellent. ...I like some poppies a lot. Find others repellent. The simpler ones appeal to my taste better that the crumpled up lumps of tissue kinds.<br /><br />Blackberries. I may have my seasons skee-wiff but we've been thinking blackberries are late. Hardly any flowers are open round here. But maybe we are muddled because it seems to have been summer for so long already!<br /><br />EstherEsther Montgomeryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05412078991551799972noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6849167564811493528.post-78901413653828841712011-06-26T00:15:00.700+01:002011-06-26T00:15:00.700+01:00I did not know what differentiated Shirley poppies...I did not know what differentiated Shirley poppies. I just called the red ones Corn poppies and the pastels Shirley. Now I know, thanks.Nell Jeanhttp://dottypants.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6849167564811493528.post-27078688797860735682011-06-25T21:43:31.263+01:002011-06-25T21:43:31.263+01:00Animal genes in the wheat? Pandora's box is op...Animal genes in the wheat? Pandora's box is open ... years ago they said wild maize in Mexico was already contaminated the GM stuff. I won't willingly eat it, but it's out there, in the supermarket, and time will show what it does to us, and the rest of nature.Diana Studerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12286066768376135880noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6849167564811493528.post-77763635082199138572011-06-25T15:19:16.286+01:002011-06-25T15:19:16.286+01:00Poppys are great you only have to sow them once an...Poppys are great you only have to sow them once and when seeded they grow like weeds. for years to come but they are welcome weeds in the garden.HORT WILLIAMShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00577053553286752650noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6849167564811493528.post-17389820241922543122011-06-25T10:03:52.197+01:002011-06-25T10:03:52.197+01:00I love the way poppies seem to glow sometimes. My ...I love the way poppies seem to glow sometimes. My softest spot has to be for the simply beautiful P. rhoeas. It turns up as a weed in my own garden, one I certainly don't want to eradicate!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6849167564811493528.post-36389560665323064262011-06-24T19:56:19.758+01:002011-06-24T19:56:19.758+01:00Blackberry bush
or
Bramble?
Discuss.
I prefer Bra...Blackberry bush<br />or<br />Bramble?<br /><br />Discuss.<br />I prefer Bramble it sounds so much more interesting while at the same time disarmingly cuddly and slightly treacherousJames A-Shttp://www.blackpitts.co.uk/blognoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6849167564811493528.post-42653796149205072672011-06-24T19:30:52.123+01:002011-06-24T19:30:52.123+01:00Bah - Victoria beat me to it :)
I can confirm you...Bah - Victoria beat me to it :)<br /><br />I can confirm your suspicions re the Blackberry season. In the North East, 'Blackberry Week' falls in September. This was traditionally a time when schools closed so that the children could help with the harvest.<br /><br />And go blackberry picking of course.VPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02732971362066784175noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6849167564811493528.post-79823268139479755952011-06-24T18:47:22.276+01:002011-06-24T18:47:22.276+01:00John Keats, Ode to a Nightingale
My heart aches, ...John Keats, Ode to a Nightingale<br /><br />My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains<br />My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk,<br />Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains<br />One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk: <br /><br />Though yours, strangely, makes more sense, I think. What Keats means is that he drained the opiate to the dregs, but "dregs" doesn't rhyme with "pains". To modern ears, it sounds as if he's tipped the opiate down the drain.Victoria Summerleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05055381807236106596noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6849167564811493528.post-48122334071234887942011-06-24T18:15:35.733+01:002011-06-24T18:15:35.733+01:00Love the poppies, especially the white picotee for...Love the poppies, especially the white picotee form! I too always have to stop and gaze at them.<br /><br />I'll be interested in the debate about the genetically modified wheat - I don't really feel able to contribute as I know so little about it, other than it makes me very uneasy. I went to a very interesting symposium about synthetic biology at Durham University recently and again, I don't like the idea at all.<br /><br />Ingrid (Sylvan Muse)Phoenix C.https://www.blogger.com/profile/13852678924557075302noreply@blogger.com