Wicked Weeds
21/06/2007 11:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
izmeinaNot sure if the Izzie is imagining it but after a perfectly fine evening pottering online followed by a one hour break sitting in the garden peeking at the stars and listening to gloom and doom on the radio - suddenly Cyberia is on a go slow and there's evil spinning beachballs everywhere and LJ is acting most cranky indeed
Well - finally made it to the posting page after what seems like an eternity.
Originally intended to post linkies to some of the most fascinating progs on the radio lately - especially the interview with Ayaan Hirsi Ali Must be copyright reasons but there's no transcript as usual and we'll have to snatch the mp3 version before the 4 week use by date
And then there's the uber spooky movie "Breach" Absolutely Fabulous. What is it with those Opus Dei folks and sexual perversion. Not the bestest movie to show wannabee FBI or CIA recruits but pretty damned good. And the Iz had to admit a sneaking admiration for Mr "Rosary Beads" Hanssen - the big bad nasty traitor. There was just something so cool about the way he was portrayed. A puzzle wrapped in an enigma and most suave, snarky and Snapish indeed. But that was just the tip of the tip of the iceberg. No way was some greenhorn newbie eager to prove himself going to outwit this guy but Agent Eric was not quite as green and innocent as he looked. It was edge of your seat stuff just looking at it - cannot even begin to imagine having to do such sneaky things for a job 24/7.
Will most definitely be getting the DVD of this one.
But will get back to all that later. Today more mundane stuff was on the menu
Last week, discovered a cute green community garden sort of place in Fremantle- those buggers got all the good stuff. They sell local plants in little pots and are much much cheaper than the garden centres. Izzie likes the small ones better - not just because you get can get more weeds for less money but they are more portable for folks without wheels and have a much much better chance of adapting to their new homes
While they had lots of banksias, catspaws and kangaroo paws, all the grevilleas were gone which was just the excuse the Izzie needed to return to Wildflora Nursery and their closing down sale.
Original intention was to buy a couple of grevilleas and a woolly bush. Being so much bigger and more expensive - could not buy 12 plants like last week but only 4 at the most. Seen the sign saying that deciduous trees were 50% off but there was no point in drooling over those pretty plane trees as firstly they would still cost 40 plus silver sickles even after the discount and could not be easily got back to the Lair without a private set of wheels to pick them up. But basically we got no room for the critter - even assuming that it would survive.
Was expecting to see a lot less plants considering that their lease expires some time in September. All good things come to those who wait. The discount is still the same at 20% but there's some new very pretty weeds in store - including the yellow version of one very pretty critter at work - it does not even have a name in English. It's a gorgeous shrub with thin filligree sort of leaves and cream coloured flowers. Last time they had a purplish version only.
Also had some new ground cover varieties of grevillea. The Izzie has decided that it's best to stick to a theme - bird attracting local plants - as many varieties of grevillea and banksia that we can get our paws on plus the very wierd and gorgeous close relatives - the South African proteas as well as the more conventional European weeds - the more aromatic the better - basils, wormwoods and various members of the daisy family such as tansy and feverfew.
Basically lots of green and silver foliage and exquisite aromas.
After managing to get those plants just within the two hour validity of our bus ticket and then gobbling some seriously delicious munchies at the Juicy Beetroot Cafe, next stop was the old lunatic asylum and now museum and arts centre. It was astonishingly quiet. Absolute bliss. Totally forgotten that the cafe was closed for renovations which meant no yummie mummies and their squealing beasties disturbing our afternoon of squiggling and soaking up the sunshine.
Normally would have pottered off to the beach for the solstice sunset but had other plans this time. So got the bus back to the Lair and got off near the duck pond which was the best place to see the sun go down. It was gorgeous. Five spoonies were fishing in the lake along with 3 ibises. Been lurking a lot there lately. A lot of planting and regeneration sort of work has been done there lately. There's a gorgeous garden nearby full of various varieties of lavender and rosemary as well as strawberries. Amazing how few folks know about these. A few months ago was feasting on the critters but they are all green now
Also there's the local weeds such as kangaroo paws, banksias - one seriously cool gum tree that could easily pass as a Whomping Willow and lots of different varieties of grevillea. It was actually looking at these critters that helped us decide just what varieties to get. Unfortunately, the very spectacular yellow ones are too big and too expensive in the garden centres so it is just a matter of waiting for the seeds to ripen and then snatching some.
There's something magical about the light at this time of year. So so much less intense than usual. Almost like in Europe. And the cold is of the crisp and crunchy invigorating variety rather than the bone chilling soul sapping sort.
The week of wonderful weather is predicted to end tomorrow with the onset of grey and miserable rain. But in Oz, it's always a bit of a novelty and something to be celebrated rather than dreaded like in Ireland or Netherlands. It's just relentless in its never ending greyness over there. It really is so out of place being a gloomy doomy Goth in this part of Oz. The light just does not lend itself to such misery. Geography truly is destiny
Well - finally made it to the posting page after what seems like an eternity.
Originally intended to post linkies to some of the most fascinating progs on the radio lately - especially the interview with Ayaan Hirsi Ali Must be copyright reasons but there's no transcript as usual and we'll have to snatch the mp3 version before the 4 week use by date
And then there's the uber spooky movie "Breach" Absolutely Fabulous. What is it with those Opus Dei folks and sexual perversion. Not the bestest movie to show wannabee FBI or CIA recruits but pretty damned good. And the Iz had to admit a sneaking admiration for Mr "Rosary Beads" Hanssen - the big bad nasty traitor. There was just something so cool about the way he was portrayed. A puzzle wrapped in an enigma and most suave, snarky and Snapish indeed. But that was just the tip of the tip of the iceberg. No way was some greenhorn newbie eager to prove himself going to outwit this guy but Agent Eric was not quite as green and innocent as he looked. It was edge of your seat stuff just looking at it - cannot even begin to imagine having to do such sneaky things for a job 24/7.
Will most definitely be getting the DVD of this one.
But will get back to all that later. Today more mundane stuff was on the menu
Last week, discovered a cute green community garden sort of place in Fremantle- those buggers got all the good stuff. They sell local plants in little pots and are much much cheaper than the garden centres. Izzie likes the small ones better - not just because you get can get more weeds for less money but they are more portable for folks without wheels and have a much much better chance of adapting to their new homes
While they had lots of banksias, catspaws and kangaroo paws, all the grevilleas were gone which was just the excuse the Izzie needed to return to Wildflora Nursery and their closing down sale.
Original intention was to buy a couple of grevilleas and a woolly bush. Being so much bigger and more expensive - could not buy 12 plants like last week but only 4 at the most. Seen the sign saying that deciduous trees were 50% off but there was no point in drooling over those pretty plane trees as firstly they would still cost 40 plus silver sickles even after the discount and could not be easily got back to the Lair without a private set of wheels to pick them up. But basically we got no room for the critter - even assuming that it would survive.
Was expecting to see a lot less plants considering that their lease expires some time in September. All good things come to those who wait. The discount is still the same at 20% but there's some new very pretty weeds in store - including the yellow version of one very pretty critter at work - it does not even have a name in English. It's a gorgeous shrub with thin filligree sort of leaves and cream coloured flowers. Last time they had a purplish version only.
Also had some new ground cover varieties of grevillea. The Izzie has decided that it's best to stick to a theme - bird attracting local plants - as many varieties of grevillea and banksia that we can get our paws on plus the very wierd and gorgeous close relatives - the South African proteas as well as the more conventional European weeds - the more aromatic the better - basils, wormwoods and various members of the daisy family such as tansy and feverfew.
Basically lots of green and silver foliage and exquisite aromas.
After managing to get those plants just within the two hour validity of our bus ticket and then gobbling some seriously delicious munchies at the Juicy Beetroot Cafe, next stop was the old lunatic asylum and now museum and arts centre. It was astonishingly quiet. Absolute bliss. Totally forgotten that the cafe was closed for renovations which meant no yummie mummies and their squealing beasties disturbing our afternoon of squiggling and soaking up the sunshine.
Normally would have pottered off to the beach for the solstice sunset but had other plans this time. So got the bus back to the Lair and got off near the duck pond which was the best place to see the sun go down. It was gorgeous. Five spoonies were fishing in the lake along with 3 ibises. Been lurking a lot there lately. A lot of planting and regeneration sort of work has been done there lately. There's a gorgeous garden nearby full of various varieties of lavender and rosemary as well as strawberries. Amazing how few folks know about these. A few months ago was feasting on the critters but they are all green now
Also there's the local weeds such as kangaroo paws, banksias - one seriously cool gum tree that could easily pass as a Whomping Willow and lots of different varieties of grevillea. It was actually looking at these critters that helped us decide just what varieties to get. Unfortunately, the very spectacular yellow ones are too big and too expensive in the garden centres so it is just a matter of waiting for the seeds to ripen and then snatching some.
There's something magical about the light at this time of year. So so much less intense than usual. Almost like in Europe. And the cold is of the crisp and crunchy invigorating variety rather than the bone chilling soul sapping sort.
The week of wonderful weather is predicted to end tomorrow with the onset of grey and miserable rain. But in Oz, it's always a bit of a novelty and something to be celebrated rather than dreaded like in Ireland or Netherlands. It's just relentless in its never ending greyness over there. It really is so out of place being a gloomy doomy Goth in this part of Oz. The light just does not lend itself to such misery. Geography truly is destiny
