Front Yard (Friday 22nd March 2024)

A while ago I cadged some ivy-leaved toadflax from C's Melksham garden and tried transplanting it into the Woodland Garden in a couple of places. It does seem to have taken and I think this particular crop that is growing on the side of one of the Front Yard whisky-barrel tubs is probably self-seeded.

Ivy-leaved toadflax (cymbalaria muralis) can be eaten as a salad, having an acrid or pungent taste rather like cress, and has antiscorbutic properties. It was introduced as a garden plant to the UK from the Mediterranean and middle and south-eastern Europe prior to the 17th century, and was first recorded in the wild in 1640. It is now considered a naturalised plant.

Note: Image replaced Tuesday 26 March

Thanks to BikerBear for Flower Friday.

L.
Saturday 23.3.2024 (1234 hr)

Blip #4054 (#3804 + 250 archived blips taken 27.8.1960-18.3.2010)
Consecutive Blip #006
Blips/Extras In 2024 #038/266 + #014/100 Extras
Day #5111 (1249 gaps from 26.3.2010)
Lozarithm's Lozarhythm Of The Day #3193 (#3033 + 160 in archived blips)

Old Forge series  
Woodland Garden
Front Yard series
Wildflowers series
Wide Angle series

Woodland Garden (March 2024) (Work in progress)

Taken with Pentax K-1 Mark II with Irix IL-11FF-PK 11mm F4 Firefly full-frame manual prime lens

Lozarhythm Of The Day:
The Slits - I Heard It Through The Grapevine (recorded 1979, Basing St Studios, Notting Hill)
Ari Up (vcl), Viv Albertine (gtr, vcl), Tessa Pollitt (bass, vcl) with Max 'Maxie' Edwards (dr)
On this evening I watched the film Here To Be Heard: The Story Of The Slits, a largely self-made film showing on Prime Video and completed after the sad death of lead singer Ari Up in 2010, whose project it had been. I learned quite a lot I didn't know about the band, for example their tour with the jazz trumpeter Don Cherry in which they bonded with his daughter Neneh who was then only 15, a year younger than Ari Up.
I Heard It through The Grapevine came out on the B-side of their debut single Typical Girls, at the same time as their album Cut, which had been recorded with producer Dennis Bovell in the Spring of 1979, and from which Typical Girls comes, but they had already moved on and the B-side was a newer recording, made in a different studio and with new co-producers, still with a strong reggae influence but of a Motown song and with Maxie on the drum stool instead of Budgie. It has become one of their best known numbers.

One year ago:
Woody Wednesday