Odds & ends. Bits & pieces. Rhythm & blues. That is all I got here. The latter might make sense with #4 below. It makes this no easier for me though. I have difficulty writing with characters such as “&”, and even “#”, although I do use “#” when necessary to describe a caption number or can size as for #6 below. Perhaps I should challenge my comfort zone a bit more, as I did when I tried using contractions a few months ago. Although I did not continue using them afterward, it was not nearly as awkward as I thought it would be. At least I now realize that I could do so if I choose to. I simply choose to not do so. In other simpler words, I could, but I don’t.

1. Carson, Rhody’s Roady, posed for this thumbnail illustration for a recent article about how similar binomial botanical nomenclature is to traditional automotive nomenclature.

2. Purchases are almost against the rules in my garden. They can only involve items that I lack access to. This purchase that was delivered by mail apparently needed ventilation.

3. Someone who does not take compliments well diverted this one to me. No one knows what seed it contains, but I suppose that we will find out when it grows after next winter.

4. Salvia guaranitica ‘Rhythm & Blues’ came as a cutting in a red Solo cup with the pack of unidentified wildflower seed. This is why I abide by my rule that disallows purchases.

5. Saccharum officinarum ‘Pele’s Smoke’ sugarcane provided more cuttings than I knew what to do with. Fortunately, most succumbed to frost. I can accommodate these fifteen.

6. However, they are merely the fifteen best specimens that were big enough for #1 cans. At least as many smaller cuttings that got separated from them still need four inch pots.

This is the link for Six on Saturday, for anyone else who would like to participate: https://thepropagatorblog.wordpress.com/2017/09/18/six-on-saturday-a-participant-guide/

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    1. Most who enjoy gardening are much more relaxed and conducive to trying new things. Gardening is healthy like that. My problem is that I do not work at it like gardening, but instead, more like efficient work.

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    1. I can use contractions. I merely do . . . not. (I mean, “I merely don’t.”) ‘Pele’s Smoke’ is an ornamental sugarcane that is supposedly ‘good’ for sugar production. I seriously doubt that. Actually, I am not so impressed with it as an ornamental either. I know that I will learn to like it as I grow it, and hear about how much others like it. That is how I learned to like ‘Black Lace’ elderberry, which I was not at all keen on when I installed it. ‘Pele’s Smoke’ is supposedly purplish bronze, but is more the color of that old fashioned topaz glass that was popular in brutalist architecture in the late 1970s. Ick. The canes are relatively lean, so there is not much sugary pulp within. We may cut and split some of it as sugary stirring sticks for the coffee shop. For my own garden, I would like to get a sugaring cultivar, rather than a syrup, chewing or ornamental cultivar. Information about agricultural cultivars is surprisingly scarce. If I can confirm that the common sort that I see around Los Angeles is a sugaring cultivar, I would be pleased with it. It might be ‘San Diego Yellow’.

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