The evening sunlight lit up the lovely curves on one of our grasses.
The Ginger Lily is coming into bloom, three creamy, silky flowers so far and another half dozen to come.
The Crinodendron Hookerianum was also catching the evening sun.
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Grasses, Ginger Lily and Crinodendron Blooms
Carl Sagan, Crinodendron and Oxygen, the Song
1 I’ve been learning about Carl Sagan by reading Alex’s amazing blog and then today was sent this quotation by a friend: Carl Sagan talking about books and I just love it.
Books by Carl Sagan
2 Our neighbours’ Crinodendron hookerianum is full of blossom. It is so beautiful. Our young one, which had more than thirty flowers last year, has none this. We’re wondering what we have done wrong…….
Crinodendron hookerianum
3 At choir tonight, we have started to learn one of the beautiful songs from the play, Oxygen, which I’ve been raving about for the last few days. Our leader, Claire Ingleheart, wrote the music for the play and was the Musical Director.
P.S. Here’s a review of the play, Oxygen, in The Stage. The reviewer agrees with me!
Cricket, Crinodendron and Creativity
Redruth Cricket Club
1 My Brother-in-law, who lives in Warsaw, is staying with us for a couple of weeks and had a wish to see an English Cricket match. We were lucky that the last match of the season was being played at home on the Cricket ground only minutes away from us. It was very relaxing watching the slow progress and pleasing to catch some of the action.
Bowler and batsman
Getting a single run
2 On the way home is a whole hedge of the beautiful Crinodendron Hookerianum. Our little bush is doing well but is still only a year old. Crinodendron Hookerianum is a fascinating shrub that has on it buds, flowers and seed pods at all stages all at once.
Crinodendron Hookerarium – our little shrub in the Spring
Crinodendron with flower, just-opening seed pod and ready-to-drop-its-seeds seed pod
Finished flower, incipient seed pod
Fresh seed pod
Seed pod bursting
3 Created a new Spine Poem:
Spine poem
Sister-in-Law, Gardening Memories and a Cornish Snail
1 A lovely long email from my sister-in-law in Atlanta giving me all their news.
2 I love it how gardening makes me remember people. Today it’s the very small crinodendron hookerianum, with so many amazing lanterns this year, only three last year (Mum and Dad and their good friend Eddie), planting Cosmos (Bill’s Dad who gave me plugs the year he died and they kept flowering until the first frosts), night scented stocks, just tiny seedlings at the moment, ( KJ as a very little girl of 3 or 4 who used to wake up at about 10pm night after night. We used to take her out into the garden on summer nights to smell ‘the night flowers’ and then she would happily go back to bed.) And now, seeing the uncurling fern, my lovely sister Daisy who emailed to say that she too loves to see the uncurling ferns but in Hawaii they are 30′ tall!
Crinodendron Hookerianum
3 A delightful little snail – I know they eat my plants but just look at him on the edge of the ice cream tub!
Small Cornish snail
