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Butch
Kylemore Abbey - Ireland
Dunguire Castle - Ireland
About Me
- Butch
- I'm a married gentleman of thirty-eight years in the Pacific North West state of Washington. My professions have been in medicine as a Naprapathic physician, music performance as a principal operatic tenor and teaching applied music voice at the university level and privately along with private instrumental instruction. Since retirement from medicine, I began composing and arranging music in the Celtic-American Folk genre and did performance in Irish Celtic Music and American Folk music of which I have recently retired due to my health. My interests are eclectic and I enjoy meeting people and making friends. The musical group I was in when we were performing was Mooney Woods and Nogle and we made two CDs. The most recent released was in December of 2010.
Little Fishing Villiage by the sea.
19 comments:
A beautiful color. Mine are white. And speaking of sweet Woodruff, my sister just dug up a shovelful for me. They're so delicate. Hopefully I'll get them in the ground tomorrow, along with some tomato plants, and a few acorn squash. It's such a vibrant time of year, isn't it?
Beautiful rhodos! They are terrific plants, aren't they?
I think this same variety is one of the ones I photographed at our local rhododendron display garden yesterday (I oughtta try this "only one post a day thing" sometime...).
Coop's right: the color of your nest is truly delightful!
Greg: I always look forward to their arrival and I love the "colour of purple". ( the movie as well!) ;-)
Thanks! The colour of the house seems to be a hit, it's festive enough without being too gaudy. We do try and blend in to our neighborhood with out becoming "more of the same." You may post as many times as you like, as I've been known to approach "serial-posting" at times.
Lovely lavender rhodos. Are yours evergreen? Their leaves make nice cut foliage, and last a long time in a vase.
Joe: I think they are but we may have to ask our Midnight Garden expert on that. Greg, any thoughts about the variety I have? ( I'm only guessing since we live in the NW and these were already planted before we bought this house over 17 years ago, it very well may be the Evergreen variety.)
You're inciting me to be a serial commenter, aren't you?
I would have to have spent the winter at your place to know if the leaves stay green all year, Butch! Any outdoor shots from some December that might tell the tale?
I do think the leaves are a great addition to flower arrangements, even when the blossoms are not rhodos--they've helped me out at work on more than one occasion!!
Greg: Ha! You found me out!!
Those leaves stay the same all year around.
Butch you seem to have an amazing green thumb. I just love everything you've posted of your garden. I think I am quite jealous of your retirement. You have time to putz around the garden. Yes, I am jealous.
xoxo
Gillian: Many thanks, but I can not take credit for these wonderful rhododendrons, they seem to take care of themselves. I have one more huge bush of them down the hill in the back yard the same colour and these bushes are very hardy.
I do love retirement, especially that I can choose when and what I want to do on my own time schedule. I do not miss the hectic life I used to keep one bit. It happens to us all one day. Thank goodness!
Obviously a seasoned gardener! It's beautiful. This coming from the man who loves, but usually kills, anything green.
Al: Ha! You are too kind. I too, know my limits when it comes to "loving a plant to death." I usually water them to death so I have learned my lesson and try to keep my relationship with my plants on the acquaintance level never showing them too much attention. They now, thrive thank goodness! ;-)
nice work, Butch
Wonderman: Many thanks! This year's blossoms are much more beautiful than last year. It seems as though everything else is blooming as well this year. I suppose we had the right amount of rain and sunlight. I know I stayed out of the way and let Nature do its thing. ;-)
I have a little balcony that could use your green thumb, Butch. Interested? ;-)
Oscar: Welcome!
If some of my plants (that have "passed on") could speak, they would tell you to "don't do it," "don't ask him to help with your balcony, that is, if you want anything to live." ;-)
I would be the first to tell you of my limited knowledge when it comes to the plant world. I've learned not to "love" them to death. The only advice I could give is check with a Master Gardener or the internet as to what type of plants would grow well in your area, then buy the most hardy plants you can find. (They're harder to kill. ;-)
( If you want to fool your neighbors, that is if the plants die, one can always put in plastic ones, they'll never know the difference from a distance. Ha!
( I'm joking, of course. If my gay friends ever found out I had plastic plants, they would make me turn in my gay membership card. )
Good luck and let me know how you do.
I can never see or breathe enough purple. So beautiful, Butch. And I love the lantern in your garden, too.
Butch, I just realized we have reached 80 degrees today and thought of you!
I also laughed when I saw your tip about plastic flowers. My other half used to trick late-season tourists to Provincetown by wiring fake roses onto his bushes once the real blooming was done.
He says they'd come out of the house and find people lined up to take photos, marveling at the long blooming season!
So the lesson here is that, you can still keep your Gay card and decoder ring, but you have to use the plastic poseys carefully...or combine wildly fabulous plastic colors together!
Cooper: Many thanks! I too, love the colour of purple and enjoy Spring here when all the plants start making their entrance. More to come, soon.
Greg: 80 degrees? My Irish cooling system starts to leak at about 70-71 degrees and I begin to wilt. I know the plants love it.
I love your story about your other-half attaching artifical flowers to his rose bushes. That is very funny! More so, that the strollers stopped to take pictures of it. I feel so much better knowing that I will not lose my membership card over such a clever deception. ;-)
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