MORE ABOUT MAORI LUNAR CALENDAR AND STARS.
From a 21st century scientific viewpoint.
I subscribe to The Conversation (among other newspapers) and noted that a team looking closely (nervously?) at changes to Antarctic ice are also looking at a Maori lunar calendar, known in Maori as maramataka. Here's a link. It may ask if you want to read this;I suggest you do.
I did have a little chuckle to note that the Eskimos have it in spades for words for snow!
Now...one or two people have wondered if I've slipped the blogging leash. Not entirely, but while I may not have screeds to write about, I do have a few snap shots.
Despite battling rough winds I did manage to get some shots of the Magnolia on the front lawn. No idea if it's a named variety, but here we go...just look at all those buds!
It's also been a pretty good time for lettuce, especially one called
"Drunken Woman" which seems a tad chauvanistic!
I'll leave you with a yellow Banksia rose whose roots are the other side of the back fence, but, true to form, Ms.Banksia is flinging herself about. So I've taken some cuttings!(She has a white sister, but I guess I'll need to go looking at a nursery for her.)
Well, that's it for now. Way past lunchtime so I'll do something clever with some pasta and tomatoes...
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I wish I had a rose delivered by my neighbours, but all I have for free is brambles, nettles, and bind weed. I suppose I could make some sort of tea from it?
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I love Magnolias - we used to make a "pilgrimage" to Kew Gardens every April, just to bask in the glory of those massive, blowsy blooms!
ReplyDeleteAs for the rose, it's difficult to see it properly - but as you know, I managed to successfully grow a rambler "Veilchenblau" from a cutting taken from a branch overhanging a fence opposite where I used to work. It's now the star of our garden every June - see here! Jx
Oh, Jon! You'd love some of the magnolias around here! Most of them are huge and very lichen-y so must be a fair age. As for that rose...before we moved to the Tropics, I had quite a few old-fashioned roses, including Veilchenblau, last seen scrambling up the "chookenarium"
DeleteIs it really wrong with "drunken Woman" ? Would "Pissed Bloke" be better - I doubt. "Dancing Maiden" perhaps.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, I like the salad plant, it looks promising. Maybe I'm just salad starved.
Fortunately, those names appear on the seed packets, not the vegetables in the market.I can just imagine someone asking a grocer if he has any "pissed blokes" or "drunken women"
DeleteThe Conversation article is quite fascinating - and you were right about all the different types of snow! Coincidentally, I recently read on the BBC that some science place in Cambridge has just received some core samples of ancient ice from Antarctica 1.5 million years old! I wonder what they'll find?
ReplyDeleteGorgeous magnolias, and I love the yellow Banksia rose against the blue sky.
I see tiny rootlets forming on several of the cuttings! Fingers crossed!
DeleteHi Dinah - thank you for your offer re Sue ... if you wouldn't mind I would like an update, if she's happy and you are too. Drunken Woman lettuce ... we should propagate more and then perhaps we'd get more people eating their greens. I love magnolias - the epitomise Spring ... gorgeous colours. While Banksia roses ... they are amazing - loved them in Jhb, and then my aunt and uncle here had it across their stoep (verandah) at the front of their house here. Cheers and thanks again for the offer - Hilary. (my name without hyphens at gmail.com) ... thanks H
ReplyDeleteOK, I'll let you know when and as I know.
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