Comments on: Seed catalog http://blog.blithewold.org/whats-colorful/seed-catalog/ a garden journal about public garden maintenance, seasonal tasks, garden events, stories about gardening, volunteers, flowers, bugs and wildlife Sun, 19 May 2013 12:25:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Katherine (Lilah's Mom) http://blog.blithewold.org/whats-colorful/seed-catalog/comment-page-1/#comment-3928 Katherine (Lilah's Mom) Wed, 15 Oct 2008 14:47:26 +0000 http://www.blithewold.org/blog/?p=1370#comment-3928 Wow - the garden looked so beautiful yesterday during my visit - I especially enjoyed the tall reaching flowers making their final statement for the season - reaching for the sun and light as it begins to shorten in duration. Your work in the garden is AMAZING. By chance did you find a pair of glasses with a neck strap? I lost them yesterday. <em>Katherine, Thank you for bringing Lilah by yesterday (and thank you for Lilah, full stop)! I wish I could have put you both to work. The garden is a bit transformed now from what you saw. And we didn't find any glasses - perhaps they're in the same black hole my camera lens cap is in... I'll keep looking and let you know! -kris</em> Wow – the garden looked so beautiful yesterday during my visit – I especially enjoyed the tall reaching flowers making their final statement for the season – reaching for the sun and light as it begins to shorten in duration. Your work in the garden is AMAZING. By chance did you find a pair of glasses with a neck strap? I lost them yesterday.

Katherine, Thank you for bringing Lilah by yesterday (and thank you for Lilah, full stop)! I wish I could have put you both to work. The garden is a bit transformed now from what you saw. And we didn’t find any glasses – perhaps they’re in the same black hole my camera lens cap is in… I’ll keep looking and let you know! -kris

]]> By: Layanee http://blog.blithewold.org/whats-colorful/seed-catalog/comment-page-1/#comment-3924 Layanee Sun, 12 Oct 2008 13:33:07 +0000 http://www.blithewold.org/blog/?p=1370#comment-3924 I just like the word 'drupe'. I am going out to attack some of these chores so thanks for writing the list so I don't have to! <em>Layanee, I like drupe too - it's almost onomatopoetic - or am I thinking of droop? I actually tackled some of my list this weekend too - good thing I wrote it or I might have forgotten to have that cup of tea. -kris</em> I just like the word ‘drupe’. I am going out to attack some of these chores so thanks for writing the list so I don’t have to!

Layanee, I like drupe too – it’s almost onomatopoetic – or am I thinking of droop? I actually tackled some of my list this weekend too – good thing I wrote it or I might have forgotten to have that cup of tea. -kris

]]> By: Susan Sims http://blog.blithewold.org/whats-colorful/seed-catalog/comment-page-1/#comment-3923 Susan Sims Sat, 11 Oct 2008 21:59:56 +0000 http://www.blithewold.org/blog/?p=1370#comment-3923 My understanding is that berries like raspberries and blackberries aren't really berries, but "aggregate fruit" or a bunch of little fruits with their own drupes inside. Real berries are things like blueberries, gooseberries, tomatoes, etc; they have lots of little seeds inside the papery or mushy outer part. I personally have a hard time understanding the drupe thing. I get that peaches and plums are drupes, even the aggregate drupe fruit thing--what I have a hard time understanding is how a coconut is a drupe. <em>Hi Susan! I guess it sounds better to say raspberry rather than raspaggregate fruit... But confusing for those of us who want to call things by their right name. And then what about strawberries which are completely inside out? And I'm with you - it seems like a stretch to call a coconut a drupe. -kris</em> My understanding is that berries like raspberries and blackberries aren’t really berries, but “aggregate fruit” or a bunch of little fruits with their own drupes inside. Real berries are things like blueberries, gooseberries, tomatoes, etc; they have lots of little seeds inside the papery or mushy outer part. I personally have a hard time understanding the drupe thing. I get that peaches and plums are drupes, even the aggregate drupe fruit thing–what I have a hard time understanding is how a coconut is a drupe.

Hi Susan! I guess it sounds better to say raspberry rather than raspaggregate fruit… But confusing for those of us who want to call things by their right name. And then what about strawberries which are completely inside out? And I’m with you – it seems like a stretch to call a coconut a drupe. -kris

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