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      • Qui vivat atque floreat ad plurimos annos
        07/24/09

        The eagle-nosed garden god and spelling bee champion James Alexander Sinclair (pictured here swapping ears with Ann-Marie Powell) has jiggled and joggled his ASCII-to-hex chart, primped and preened his sprocket retainer bolts and come up with an even shiner website. The blog's good, too

      • Heroic rosearian
        07/24/09
        Sir Hardy Amies, the Rosa Mundi nutter, war hero and Queen's couturier would have been 100 last Friday and, in celebration, David Freeman had a lunch at Hardy's Gloucestershire garden where the last of the Rosa mundi are just going over. His garden looks lovelier than ever now that its c

      • Lily
        07/06/09
        Lake swimming last night. Water lily flowers tight shut. Vast pike leaps out of the water lily pads beside me.

        Now I will stick to admiring my own mini lilies, by day, from my pike-free garden.

      • Cool thoughts
        07/01/09
        although I am too hot to think. Writing about no-chemical swimming pools is heating instead of cooling my brain. And I cannot remember the name of this plant.

        I'm told that it seeds everywhere. I was told that about Nicotiana sylvestris and I can't manage to get it to flower

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