Six on Saturday. World Nude Gardening Day.
The first Saturday in May seems very early to featherbed in nude gardening , especially in our part of the world . But this year is the warmest start to the month ever , so perhaps here is your chance . World Nude Gardening Day is 20 year old today . I do n’t imagine it has ever really been embraced by nurseryman with much enthusiasm . It was dreamed up by a naturist , Mark Storey , who was the editor in chief of naked and Natural Magazine . It was launch as part of a project by BFC which stand for Body Freedom Collaborative . ( Not to be throw with BFG which was the name of Roald Dahl ’s Big Friendly Giant . ) I have always been baffled by these masses and why they actually want to go about raw , specially here in the UK where we really do n’t have the clime for it . Hands up who take off their wearing apparel to garden ? As I thought- nobody .
If you want to escape from your ‘ polyester prison house ’ as I opine these citizenry call clothes and fete this day by garden in the buff then think the sun cream and do be deliberate how you handle baron putz . Watch out for euphorbia sap , stinging things , spotty things and vicious thorns . And even worse ; revolting bugs and check mark in touchy places . Oh beloved , the possiblities for accidents are interminable .
I shuder to think what my grandmother would have made of this nude gardening malarkey . She used to garden in her 2d best corsets , bird , blouse and pearls and her second best Sunday pelage and chapeau . She look as if she was wait the queen to call in for tea . A shade formal perhaps but at least she was well protected with her thick stockings and stalwart shoes . I wear jean with everything safely tuck in . The Pianist order I look like a 1970 ’s libber but then he be in Crouch End for years . I recollect I appear more like an Appalachian hillbilly on the way to a hoedown . But I do n’t like what I look like when I ’m garden and I do n’t bang any nurseryman who does handle . My horticulture champion and I scrub up quite well when we go out but without exception seem like scarecrows in the garden . In fact my scarecrow , Chloris who eventually grew too disreputable to to be seen and ended up on the balefire was intimately dressed than me . And she had a better meet bra . Scruffy we may be . But raw ? Never .
Chloris
Years ago when I had a with child garden of intimately 11 acres and a lake I was approached by a naturists group and asked if they could come and have a rally in my garden to picnic and mollycoddle in leisure activity . Quite what those activities were was never establish , although I believe they are all very wholesome and rude . I believe they observe the looker of the human eubstance and want to further the freedom and the health benefit of taking your wearing apparel off . ( Personally , I do n’t think ticks in cumbersome places are very healthy . ) Anyway I had to turn them down because the day they choose happened to be a National Gardens Scheme unfastened day . Can you envisage the scenario if I had allowed the two events to go onwards together ? OK , I was tempted , just for the fun of it . really , on reflection , I wish I had , it would certainly have relieved the tiresomeness of the day . Anyone who opens their garden will bed that most visitant just want to say you about their own gardens . And people do suspect things in other citizenry ’s garden . I commend one year I get hold a political party of merrymaker having a picnic washed down by plenteous amounts of wine two hours after the garden was closed . I know there were copious amounts of vino because I plant the empties next day .
I have already used the picture of the man with the wheelbarrow on this web log a few years ago . But I thought it seemed appropriate for today to celebrate World Nude Gardening Day , in spirit , if not in practice . It is a birthday plug-in ally send me because they thought it looks like the Pianist . He was dismay when he saw this , as for a minute he thought it was him until after a moment ’s reflexion , he see that he had never walked down the garden naked pushing a wheelbarrow . In fact he has rarely crowd a wheelbarrow . And we no longer have a lawn .
I am celebrating the first Saturday in May with the first beautiful roses of the class to bloom in my French garden . I decided to grow just Gallic rose in my garden here and this next one is a pretty crampoon call ‘ Pompom de Paris ’ . It has been in bloom for more than three workweek .
Chloris
telephone number two is a gorgeous peachy arise in the Années Folles serial It is called ‘ Music Hall ’ . Having bought it I discovered that it is actually a German move up so that weaken my French- only rule . It is gorgeous and the princely , double , peachy prime are extremely perfumed . It bloom on and off all summer long and will be delighting me long after ‘ Pompom de Paris ’ has shut up shop for the year .
I already have a pomegranate tree but I had to buy another when I found this one with frilly , double , orange and clean flowers . It is calledPunicagranatum‘Madame Lagrelle ’ . Apparently , it is purely ornamental and does n’t bear yield . But as it has such beautiful carnation- like flowers I can do without the yield . I am uprise it behind the old well which has the traditional lauze ceiling which all the erstwhile houses in our area have .
lavender do well in my garden and they are always abuzz with bees and butterfly stroke . The French lavender , Lavendulastoechas‘Papillon Purple ’ is always the first to flower .
Lavenders mean summertime as do the genus Cistus which do well on my stony grime . My preferred isCistusladaniferwhich is the first to bloom in my garden . I love it for its large , white papery flowers with maroon spots and yellow pistils and stamen . When the sun is hot it smells deliciously redolent . I believe the resin it exudes is used for perfume .
For identification number six , I haveHeuchera ‘ Caramel ’ . I am especially beguiled with it as it is doing so well . In my Suffolk garden , heucheras get attack by vine weevil but this one has grown vast and the slightly furry leaves are left alone by the dreaded bullet and snails which assault most of my plant here . The greenish acer behind isAcer‘Emerald Lace ’ and the white blossom in the hedge is a medlar .
However you celebrate it , Happy World Nude Gardening Day !
Chloris
Thanks to JimGarden Ruminationsfor host Six on Saturday on World Nude Gardening Day as he does on every Saturday throughout the twelvemonth . Do join in .
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If my figure was as tremendous as it is in my dreams I may just pamper in a piffling naked gardening , but my mirrors say a few decades past that point ! I too love Cistus and admire your Cistus ladanifer . I am planning on showing some of mine next week and would appreciate some names if you’re able to facilitate . Enjoy the forthcoming week in France .
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