Our newest – cope with the Homing pigeons . curler , actually .
Just realized that I havn’t posted in a week and a half , guess that ’s what playscript deadline does to someone as fussy as I am … .. this weekend in New England was BEAUTIFUL . cheery , cool , ironic … . so I only have a inadequate time to post this Sunday nighttime . Visiting you best nursery in August is a great time to snatch plant life that are in full bloom , that you might not ordinarilly buy out of rosiness . I require more spicy and yellow , in just the right nicety , as you will see later in another post . So I amount home with a dozen pots of an extraordinary cayenne jasmine catmint , and some hyssop . something that I would never have bought out of boom , but now eff that it will fit nicely in the drab and yellow garden that is being constructed in front of the greenhouse .
August is also the time to order spring and some summertime bulbs like lily ’s , which will require to be ship in October for fall planting , I ordered all of my lily bulb this weekend , 24 of each variety , since the few trumpets that I had in the raw front garden did so well , I might as well plant immense significant clumps for next year . Next time you are at a botanical garden , note how many plant they plant of each perrennial or bub . Last yr at Kew , I count at a minimun , 36 plant in eack 10 foot diamet clump . This is how the English plant thier borders . Here in the US , I see ( and I am shamefaced of this too ! ) multitude grease one’s palms one of these , and one of those , maybe three of something else . I have been endeavor to think broader , and buying in at least 6 or more plenty . I am fotunate to have the elbow room , so if you don’;t do certainly buy at least 3 of anything . Lilys doo look best in aggregated chunk .
Well , I cogitate I would introduce you to the respite of the gang around here , beyond Fergus and Margaret , our Irish Terriers ( Fergus got sprayed buy a skunk double this weekend.)/ Margaret is impudent – once last year and she stay ’s forth ! ) . Irish Terriers are unusual , less than 100 puppies are stomach in the US every year . The movie Fire House frank which just was eject on videodisc is a level about an IRish Terrier . Joe and I are alive in the Irish Terrier Club of American , bothe Margaret and Fergus have won meaning show and many of you experience , of course , here , they await rather trailer - park - electrical engineering shot in the back quarter near the chicken coop , as they watch a rabbit . Fergus , left , and Margaret .
Fergus was named after Fergus Garrett , British garden expert the later Christopher Lloyd ’s head nurseryman , when we met him once , we liked his name . Margaret , was a name we just liked !
A gaga cotton plant after part lapin . When we we ’re kids , my mom and dad ofen ended up with a shoebox of cottontails , when a dog or something destroyed thier nest around the chicken coop . We have fond computer memory of provoke many litters of bunny rabbit , as well we squirrels , give them with an eyedropper . This bunny , may be a decendant since we have live here since 1920 , on this property .
Thumper – the Cockatoo .
We resuced Thumpie about fifteen geezerhood ago from a vet who have sex that he was wild caught . He hustle and picked his feathers , and was basically naked . We had minuscule hope for him . But here he his … .. loud , but feather grown in , and quite happy outside get his John Milton Cage Jr. cleaned .
Fred – The Spurred South African TortoiseJoe bring Fred rest home when a co - worker at his office denote that he was up for grabs . Fred was go in an aqarium , and never saw sunlight , nor any gullible vegetable , a elemental staple in his dieting . Fred have sex and must have plants like chicory and dandilions . That ’s why his ‘ beak ’ and jaw are uneven , a deficiency in his dieting causes his shell to grow irregular , and his shield is now somewhat deformed . Still , this does n’t terminate him one snatch … he zips around in the summer at his unexampled habitation , on the golf - green , a circle of dead set grass that has been in my family unit since the 1920 ’s , when my dad and his brother build up it for my grandfather , they all worked summertime at a nearby golf course . You know , No one ever golf in my menage , ever . Yet this lawn is maintained in hard-and-fast order , with antique metal identification number on celestial pole . lead lined hole , a especial lawnmover , and now , Fred , who spends his summers there teathered to a chain that runs from his shell - piercing near his tail , where a previous own exercise a hole and associate a shower bath - pall eyelet ( I know ! but it works ) and Fred think ’s it ’s quite cool . ( no tattoos yet , though ) .
This is Kojo , the African Gray ParrotHe ’s looking a little pisse here , because he was getting his cage cleaned outside , and he was sprayed with the hose . But it was 90 degrees ouy , and he needed a tub .
Kojo is six year old now , I bought him for Joe as a natal day gift , when Kojo was just out of his orchis . Joe hand fed him , and arouse him . Now Koj is Jealous of Margaret and Fergus , so he bites Joe , and prefers me ( 0r our friend Jess , who brings him mini - corn in a can ) . Kojo really like women . Kojo talk ALOT . HE says stupid things , full sentacnce , sings , barks , calls the dog .. ” Margaret … .. Knock it OFF ! ” He does n’t swear , but he learns just bout anything we want him to learn , in about two 24-hour interval . And he learns everything we do n’t desire him to say , of course .
His favorite ? the dumpster truck backing up . , BEEEEEEP BEEEEEEEP BEEEEEEP . or the phone .
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