Re: Re: Herb nursery?/silly name

Wow. They weren't big on nursery rhymes at Chez Evans growing up. Never
heard that one - too funny Judy! Thanks for the enlightenment.


Pam Evans
Kemp, TX
zone 8A
----- Original Message -----
From: Judy L Browning
Sent: 2/4/2005 1:18:55 PM
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Herb nursery?/silly name

Pam wrote
...Dilly Dilly ... Silly name on that ...

Maybe not, it's from the nursery rhyme, "Lavender's Blue."

"Lavender's blue, dilly dilly.
Lavender's green.
When I am King, dilly dilly,
you shall be Queen."

My childhood book of nursery rhymes had colored reproductions of Rackham's
illustrations. That one had a little boy & girl in a garden. He was handing
her a posey of lavender. Until I saw it I thought lavender was just the way
soap smelled. Didn't know it was a plant.
Well, there's another early memory I didn't know I had. Thanks for the jog,
Pam.

----- Original Message -----
From: <gardenqueen@academicplanet.com>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Friday, February 04, 2005 9:49 AM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Herb nursery?


> One tried and true, 2 new ones. Provence I've grown before, and the
> Silver Edge and Dilly Dilly sound great. Silly name on that last one but
> these will be great in containers on the porch being on 12" high. We
> usually only get 30 or 35" of rain a YEAR, so 22" in one month is
> unheard of and will likely never happen again in my lifetime. It's no
> wonder those poor babies drowned. And of course, the Goodwin Creek Grays
> survived the flood but they are only marginally hardy so as soon as we
> got that low teens cold snap, they bit the dust!! I ordered 8 plants
> (quart size) so I won't have to wait forEVER for them to get big.
>
>
> Pam Evans
> Kemp, TX
> zone 8A
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Donna
> Sent: 2/3/2005 11:43:33 PM
> To: gardenchat@hort.net
> Subject: Re: Re: [CHAT] Herb nursery?
>
> Thanks for the morning chuckle Pam.... seems funny
> that YOU would loose plants due to too much water:)
>
> Hope the new ones are better than the old ones
> where... Did you try new varieties?
>
> Donna
>
> ---  <gardenqueen@academicplanet.com> wrote:
>
> > Well I just placed my first order w/ Lazy SS. Can't
> > wait to see my new
> > lavenders. That 22" of rain last June drowned most
> > of mine, even the
> > ones in pots.
> >
> >
> > Pam Evans
> > Kemp, TX
> > zone 8A
>
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