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After the kids brought over their cat for his sleepover whilst they jet off to a wedding in Hawaii, I wandered up the hill to the Paddington Markets in the grounds of the Public School up on Oxford Street. I bought this lavender for $6, an alyssum for $2 and 5 Babys' Breath for $2 each.
My lemon tree, lime tree, daphne and two of my gardenias have new shoots. Two other gardenias are in grave trouble.
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They were cheap plants. The lavender will go well and look great in that pot which looks like a Milchmälterli, try saying that after a few wines. It is a swiss word meaning a milking bucket.
LOL - Swiss German is always so pictorial - I am now wondering what a mälterli might be ... .
However, what kind of lavender is this? Leaves look different to most of the species I have seen so far.
Away to google Baby's Breath ....
Good oh ... you've got the lavendar just the veges and grass to go then. Don't move from here for a while ... your portable garden is going to get too much to move.
I looked for grass yesterday but need to go to a nursery. Might get a friend to take me next time she goes to Bunnings or Gardens'r'us. The vege containers Kirsten will help with when she gets back.
Now to go and scan in the labels from the lavender.
I guessed milch to be milk, hence the expression "politicians use the electorate as a milch cow". Not that I am exasperated or anything.
Woops! I just realised that I spelt "milchmälchterlie" incorrectly in the above comment.It means milk bucket but it is the word that Swiss Germans always try to get english speakers to say. Like we get them to say "three hundred and thirty three" In the old days they were made of timber very similar to your Turkish one.
Why do Swiss have strife saying 333? Does Bill still or is it old behaviour? Or does that number simply no longer exist in his lingo?
No one with a German tongue can say 333 without much spitting and tongue-biting, ;-)
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