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The mnemonic process can play tricks on,you!
Once you associate a person’s name, a plant’s name
or anything you want to remember with a more
familiar phrase or word, may be all you can ever
remember.
A dear friend of mine who is an avid gardener
whom I’ve written about before still calls Geodetia
G o tc h a , and Lavatoria L avatory. The other day
she came up with a new one, H am and C heese.
“Pat,” I asked, “what’ s H am and C h eese ?”
“You know ,” she said, “D e li.”
“D eli ? H am and C h eese? ” 1 questioned.
“June, those tall blue flowers growing over there
against the fence. See where all the Scram b led
E ggs are blooming from the seeds you gave me last
year. ”
Looking in the direction she had pointed, 1 saw
several plants of delphinium. Under them in lull
bloom was a patch of Lumnanthus that’s usually
called by its common name, P oached Egg. I
decided to forget the most commonly used names or
even the Latin names I should be memorizing; it’s
more fun to share gardening conversations with Pat.
I laughed and said “Pat, where’s dinner?” We
spent the rest of the day gathering hydrangea and
Lunana to dry for winter bouquets.
To pick hydrangeas for drying, wait until the
blossoms are mature. The petals will have a leather
like feeling, but retain their color. Pick them on a
day when the air is dry, as dampness will cause the
petals to become discolored. Choose a bucket large
enough to hold the cut flowers loosely, and fill to
about one-third with water. Strip off any leaves that
would be immersed in the w ater and leave the
bouquet in the bucket until the water evaporates.
Some of the flowers may wilt, but if picked at the
proper time then the petals should hold their shape.
Lunaria ( H o n e sty or m on ey p lan t ) branches
are gathered for drying after the oval seed pods are
formed. When completely mature the outer skins can
be easily stripped, releasing the seeds, leaving a
silvery-colored shell.
That day we also picked a few branches of Lunana
while the seed pods were still a greenish color, not
fully mature, to use in a bouquet of chartreuse-
colored Alchemilla mollis ( L ad y's M antle ) we
had dried earlier in the summer.
1 save seeds from many of the plants that grow in
my garden. Wait until seed pods have completed
their cycle on the plant belore gathering. Lunaria,
Calendula and many different types of poppies, to
name only a few, can be sown in fall and spring. I
sow these at both times so that I have plants that
mature next year at staggered times.
I’ll be visiting Pat again this week. She called and
laughingly said, “1 found dinner! My beefsteaks
are ripe.” 1 envisioned a plate of sliced, ripe, red
tomatoes sprinkled with the fresh basil I’d seen
growing in her yard. She interrupted my thoughts,
saying, “My b e e fste a k s have never been so big and
red. 1 alw ays add nutmeg and cinnamon to them.
Oh! Stop at the store and bring a quart of vanilla ice
cream to go with the cobbler.”
“Pat,” I said, “are you talking about your
tomatoes?”
“No, J a n u a ry . ” (She sometimes calls me.) “You
know '... my apple tree!”
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