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15_the_circle) wrote2006-08-06 10:04 pm
15_the_circle) wrote2006-08-06 10:04 pm
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lunaria revisited
[OT from cottage renovations]
in the summertime one expects reruns, right? here's another look at the subject of this entry from 12 June.
I don't get the impression that lunaria is highly prized in the Grove -- these specimens had been uprooted and tossed along Grove Road for yard waste pickup. before the haulage contractor could get to them, though, I did, and brought them home to await suitable light and the more limiting condition of a clue as to what to do with them. yesterday afternoon I got around to burning a bit of digichrome in their general direction.
(click through these thumbnails for higher resolution images)
lunaria
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I'll stop now.
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a neighbour told me that in her (and its) native France it's called monnaie du pape, "the Pope's coins", which gives one a mental picture of the peasantry slipping it into the collection box instead of the real thing.
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> Oh, and congratulations on your oldhouses co-mod deal (I just saw)!
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thank you. not that I have the slightest clue about what it takes to promote an LJ community, but I figured there's probably no harm in trying, right?
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please don't. ever.
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I would like to add you to my Friends List if that is ok and you add me as well so that we can always keep track of each other and contact each other easily.
Love these plants. I must look into how they grow in the UK and see about getting some.
They are referred to as 'The Popes Coins" because they are like paper and disentigrate easily in your hands and the Pope does not get paid anything in real life so ............ plus the "Poor Man's Coins' because when you look out onto the place where these grow you feel rich with pride with the 'coins' appear and yet, they have no real value in terms of money :)
I used to have a relative that had this lot growing in abundance in her garden in Surrey but I live in the North of England now so not too sure how well they fair up here because I have never seen any. So thank you for the pics and the reminder, I can look into getting some now :)
Helen x
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> I would like to add you to my Friends List if that is ok
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oh, sure, no problem. it won't change the content (I don't post anything other than public) but having it aggregated into your fpage might make it more convenient.
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done
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> but I live in the North of England now so not too sure how well
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you might be out of their natural range (their wikipedia page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunaria) gives one the impression they prefer a temperate climate) but a protected south facing location, if you have such a thing, could give them what they need.
Maryland is in the mid-Atlantic region of the US; Washington Grove is near the base of the foothills of the Appalachians so our climate runs to humid and muggy during the summer yet in the winter we do get hard frosts and snow, though not in excess so we have lots of plant species that I associate with the Southeast (e.g., hibiscus, mimosa, magnolia) and Southwest (agave (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agave_americana)).
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Big. :-)
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glad you liked it.
what was it about the first one, as opposed to the others, that brought that about? not trying to be excessively obnoxious, rather, there's a natural curiosity about how others react to these imaages.
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Does that help?