Fireworks and hosta gardens

9 years ago

I just happened to think about the common history these two things have. Hosta gardens, as Dougald brought to mind with his hosta garden, and fireworks share a Chinese ancestry.

I sat there in my garden tonight, the sound of fireworks coming to me from near and far, seldom the sight of the sparklies, but the sounds. Even in my almost totally walled garden the sounds came rolling like a wave. The most chilling to my mind were those pops in imitation of automatic weapons. What a reminder for returned service men.....so disturbing.

But beyond that, I thought about the way hostas for centuries before current age as they say, witnessed the first real fireworks displays, were in the gardens beneath Chinese skies, aerial displays brightening the night time as plantaginea opened its enormous blooms and filled the air with alluring come-hither, drawing the night time pollinators, the exotic moths, night birds, other insect life, to the aromatic display. I'm sure Mama plantaginea was awake on those long nights of late summer several thousands of years ago..

Now here the hosta are, another millennia, and still admired by man. We do her bidding by propagation, by devotion to her attributes. Yes, hosta species are carving their names on the evolutionary survivors list.

Happy Independence Day! May fireworks light up the night sky for hostas forever. At least ONCE a year. :)

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leafwatcher
9 years ago
Those soldiers come crawling up out of the trenches every spring ..ducking wind, drought and the INCOMING ! Hail..

Suffering the bite of slugs, and an early frost they trudge on to wither under the heat of fire (in the sky).

They never really fall, they take their beatings and dig in to reload, rest, and recuperate for next years march..
Across the garden floor..
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Original Author
9 years ago
Yeah, Leafwatcher.
Did you drink the lemonade too? :)

The 4th is my most favorite holiday.
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leafwatcher
9 years ago
AHHHH lemonade..
There used to be, and still might be a vendor at the Iowa State Fair that sold lemonade out of a giant acrylic tub about 4 foot across. It was round ... crystal clear and 2 feet deep.The entire container was raised up shoulder high suspended on a vendors cart. It was filled with quartered lemons and ice cubes the size and shape of one gallon buckets.
In the ninety degree heat it sweated cold drips down the clear sides of the clear tub.. just capturing one of those drips in the August humidity can save your life. Your mouth waters like Pavlovs dog in anticipation of the first sip from that vat...
bragu_DSM 5
9 years ago
lw Ã¢ÂÂ¦ yup, and those bees toooooo Ã¢ÂÂ¦ staples of the state fair Ã¢ÂÂ¦ and the faucet suspended in the air with water running Ã¢ÂÂ¦ and turkey drummies
don_in_colorado
9 years ago
Deep-fried sticks of butter, drunk, meth-addled carnies and all that jazz...

Don B.
in ny zone5
9 years ago
I did not see any fireworks displays. What I heard sounded like gun shots. In NY state fireworks are illegal. In my densely populated township firing guns is also illegal. I did not see any gunshot holes in my siding though. My peaceful event on the 4th was doing some garden work and trying to figure out which hostas should get replaced with which. Bernd
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9 years ago
How about All Jazzed Up for a switch?

A streaker and on the fragrant flowered list. and big....
what more can I ask?