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kevinscottgardens · 2 years

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20 au 26 juin 2022

This week didn’t go as planned...

Monday is my big watering day, all the pots around the house and pool, the newly planted hedge, some young trees, and the Brugmansia which needs extra water to really perform in the summer. I also feed the Pelargonium collection. This is a nice way to start the week.

It was forecast to rain Tuesday, the solstice, but I don’t ever count on it until after it happens. The day was overcast and it was quite comfortable to work with the sun hidden behind clouds. I continued dead-heading plants, a bit more removing of Reseda lutea, and clearing out the bottoms of Salvia sclarea because they were all looking quite messy and the prairie will be where the big party starts, so it will be seen in the most light. The rain finally arrived around 15.00 and it continued all afternoon with lots of thunder and lightening. It was wonderful and amazing and very much needed.

Wednesday I realised I had a bit of a sore throat and a cough. I definitely assumed it was from all the plant dust and seeds that I’d been breathing in the last few days. However, Covid is on the rise here and several people I know were turning up positive. Lucien and Susie were due to arrive at my place later in the day. I went for a Covid test and it came back positive.

I then took a home test to see how dark the line was, and it was thick and super black and showed up instantly. I rang Susie and Lucien to tell them. Susie changed her flight and will come in September. Lucien decided to stay at his father’s home in Saint-Raphaël until Friday when I would need to re-test for my party.

I didn’t work the rest of the week. I watched a lot of Netflix, drank tonnes of water and took vitamin D. I re-tested Friday morning and the line was very faint, though still there. I sent an email to everyone about the party and let them decide what was best for them. Most people were happy to still come over. Friday evening Nicholas, Christopher, Daniel, Lucien and I had dinner at my place, outside.

Saturday morning Lucien and I made two cakes, a strawberry cake and a carrot cake. Denis, Andre, Bart, Mandy and Daniel all came over in the early afternoon to prepare all the food for the party; I was banned from food preparation. Ilze was in charge of the barbecue. Guests started arriving around 17.00.

It was a fun afternoon with my friends who were all getting to know each other with good music and plenty of food and wine to go around. Friends in attendance had travelled from : San Francisco (9,638.50 km), London (1,034.76 km), Antwerp (873.03 km), Valencia (772.45 km), Paris (690.88 km), Montanay (310.86 km), Geneva (300.90 km), Aix-en-Provnce (134.02 km), Grasse (17.09 km), Cagnes-sur-Mer (9.28 km), and Antibes. Nationalities represented were : American, Argentinian, Australian, Austrian, Belgian, British, French, Italian, Polish, Slovakian, South African, Spanish and Swiss.

Sunday was my actual birthday. I slowly cleaned the house and garden for most of the morning. It wasn’t too bad. I found a bottle of rosé in the freezer, which had popped its cork, so I had to drink that throughout the day!

Plant of the week

Polygonaceae Eriogonum giganteum S.Watson

common name(s) - St. Catherine's lace infraspecific(s) - Eriogonum giganteum var. compactum Dunkle; Eriogonum giganteum var. formosum Brandegee synonym(s) - Eriogonum giganteum var. giganteum conservation rating - none native to - Santa Catalina Island, California, USA location - Domaine de l’Orangerie leaves - stems spreading to erect, occasionally with persistent leaf bases, often with a distinct main trunk; leaves cauline, 1 per node; tomentose; blade oblong-ovate to ovate or lanceolate to narrowly oblong, white-tomentose abaxially, sometimes slightly less so or cinereous to somewhat glabrate and greenish adaxially, margins plane, sometimes crisped; leathery, woolly, oval-shaped leaves are gray, and clustered sparsely along the mostly naked branches; evergreen flowers - creamy pink to white with long blooming period; cymose, open or compact; branches dichotomous, tomentose to floccose or glabrate; bracts 3, scalelike, broadly triangular, or leaflike, oblanceolate to elliptic fruit - achenes brown, glabrous habit - shrubs, round to erect, to 2m wide and tall, tomentose to floccose or glabrate, grayish to reddish habitat - the coastal sage scrub plant association habitat of the coastal sage and chaparral sub-ecoregion pests - generally pest-free disease - generally disease-free hardiness - to -5ºC (H4) soil - fast draining, gravel, pH 6 to 8 sun - full sun propagation - self-seeds pruning - pinch back rapidly growing stem tips to increase the plant's density nomenclature - Polygonaceae - polygonum - many-joints, Dioscorides’ name may have referred to the fecundity of docks, but others suggest a reference to the swollen nodes or knees; Eriogonum - Greek words erion meaning wool and gonu meaning a joint or a knee, which refers to the hairy joints of the type species; giganteum - unusually large or tall, gigantic NB - One variety of this geographically limited species, Eriogonum giganteum var. compactum or the Santa Barbara Island buckwheat, is endemic to and particularly rare on Santa Barbara Island.

References :

Calflora [online] https://www.calflora.org/app/taxon?crn=3249 [4 Jul 22]

Calscape [online] https://calscape.org/Eriogonum-giganteum-(St.-Catherine%27s-Lace) [4 Jul 22]

Gardenia [online] https://www.gardenia.net/plant/eriogonum-giganteum [4 Jul 22]

Gledhill, David, (2008) “The Names of Plants”, fourth edition; Cambridge University Press; ISBN: 978-0-52168-553-5

IUCN [online] http://www.iucnredlist.org/search [4 Jul 22]

Las Pilitas Nursery [online] https://www.laspilitas.com/nature-of-california/plants/287--eriogonum-giganteum [4 Jul 22]

Plants of the World [online] https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:694175-1 [4 Jul 22]

San Marcos Growers [online] https://www.smgrowers.com/products/plants/plantdisplay.asp?plant_id=573 [4 Jul 22]

Wikipedia [online] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eriogonum_giganteum [4 Jul 22]

World Flora Online [online] http://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000674848 [4 Jul 22]

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friendsrpbg · 6 years

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J20170817-0085—Eriogonum giganteum var giganteum—RPBG—DxO by John Rusk Via Flickr: Eriogonum giganteum var. giganteum—St. Catherine's lace. Included in the CNPS Inventory of Rare and Endangered Plants on list 4.3 (limited distribution). The common name commemorates St. Catherine, virgin martyr of the Church, and one of the saints seen by Joan of Arc in a vision. The variety is endemic to Santa Catalina Island, St. Catherine's namesake. Widely planted in mainland gardens, parks, and public landscaping where it hybridizes freely with other buckwheats. The flowers turn from white to rust as they age and persist nearly indefinitely, a trait that make them useful in floral displays. Photographed at Regional Parks Botanic Garden located in Tilden Regional Park near Berkeley, CA.

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nunoxaviermoreira · 7 years

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J20170817-0085—Eriogonum giganteum var giganteum—RPBG—DxO by John Rusk Eriogonum giganteum var. giganteum—St. Catherine's lace. Included in the CNPS Inventory of Rare and Endangered Plants on list 4.3 (limited distribution). The common name commemorates St. Catherine, virgin martyr of the Church, and one of the saints seen by Joan of Arc in a vision. The variety is endemic to Santa Catalina Island, St. Catherine's namesake. Widely planted in mainland gardens, parks, and public landscaping where it hybridizes freely with other buckwheats. The flowers turn from white to rust as they age and persist nearly indefinitely, a trait that make them useful in floral displays. Photographed at Regional Parks Botanic Garden located in Tilden Regional Park near Berkeley, CA. http://ift.tt/2gcSMuk

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furryrabbits · 7 years

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Eriogonum giganteum, St. Catherine's lace. #eriogonumgiganteum just a baby. #nativeplants #eriogonum #buckwheat #losangeles

#eriogonumgiganteum #buckwheat #eriogonum #losangeles #nativeplants

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friendsrpbg · 5 years

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J20160915-0027—Eriogonum giganteum var giganteum—RPBG—DxO by John Rusk Via Flickr: Eriogonum giganteum var. giganteum—St. Catherine's lace. Included in the CNPS Inventory of Rare and Endangered Plants on list 4.3 (limited distribution). Endemic to Santa Catalina Island. Widely planted in mainland gardens, parks, and public landscaping where it hybridizes freely with other buckwheats. The flowers turn from white to rust as they age and persist nearly indefinitely, a trait that make them useful in floral displays. The common name commemorates St. Catherine, virgin martyr of the Church, and one of the saints seen by Joan of Arc in a vision. Photographed at Regional Parks Botanic Garden located in Tilden Regional Park near Berkeley, CA.

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