[Leica] Wednesday Weeds

[imra at iol.ie (Douglas Barry)]

Don, that flower looked familiar, and, sure enough, according to the 
amateur horticulturist on the distaff side of the family, it's called 
Periwinkle or Vinca over here in Ireland and used to be planted in the 
dry ground under the old (1850s) and rather huge (and bloody terrifying 
- in an easterly gale) cupressus macracarpa in our old garden in Bray. 
It liked the dry soil left by the monstrous moistsucker above it and 
covered it effectively, as virtually nothing else would grow there 
despite the fertilisation of my green fingered wife's salty tears as she 
mourned the drying death of yet another aspirational, but failed, 
planting. The house was built (shabbily enough) in one of those 
evanescent booms on the cricket pitch of a departed preparatory school, 
and according to local folklore Samuel Beckett - the future Nobel 
literature laureate - used to dangle his legs from the lower branches as 
he waited his turn to bat for the school in his formative years.

Douglas


On 28/03/2018 15:38, Don Dory via LUG wrote:
> Good morning from a warmish southern US.  Today brings us Myrtle which is
> an aggravating vine that mimics ivy in it's ability to climb over all in
> the way acquiring sunlight.  It does have a redeeming feature which is an
> attractive bloom:
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/don_dory_gmail_com/Wednesday+Weeds/Myrtle+LUG.jpg.html
>
> All the best.
>