Today is an unofficial holiday known as National Pink Day!
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Showing posts with label Mouse Ears. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mouse Ears. Show all posts
Sunday, June 23, 2019
Friday, October 12, 2018
Silver Lined Clouds and Pink Lined Leaves (These are a few of my favorite things!)
Earlier in the year (during the month of June) when I saw the pink "lining" on the leaves of my Continus Coggygria (AKA Smoke Bush), a shrub which provides shade to my Mouse Ears (as seen in the picture atop this entry taken in my rooftop garden), I have been wondering about the origin of the idiom “every cloud has a silver lining,” so I finally looked it up and here's what I found: "The idiom is most likely traceable to the year 1634, when John Milton Penned his masque Comus. In it, the quote appears as 'Was I deceived or did a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night?'”
Now that I know the origin of clouds having a silver lining, I'll try and find out why the leaves of a smoke bush have pink lining during certain times of the year and I'll let you know if I find the reason.
Meanwhile, I do have a number of entries within this blog that discuss this awesome shrub and I'll leave you with this link to refer to them as well as with a few more pictures of the Smoke Bush's pink-lined leaves.
Saturday, June 23, 2018
It's National Pink Day!
Here's a piece of trivia for this next to the last Saturday in June:
"National Pink Day is observed annually on June 23rd. This day is set aside for the color pink and all it represents."*
As for my rooftop garden, the pink trimmed leaves on my Smoke Bush represent protection for my Mouse Ears! AND The Mouse Ears (mini hostas) are in bloom again!
Tuesday, May 1, 2018
It's May! It's May! (Tuesday's Truths Week 82)
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| OTHER TULIPS ARE FEATURED IN VOLUME 1 |
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| OTHER TULIPS ARE FEATURED IN VOLUME 1 |
Welcome to the eighty-second week of my Tuesday's Truths series, which this week is coinciding with the beginning of the month of May, and as has been the case in bygone years, a song (It's May! It's May!) from Camelot is on my mind.
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