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| COMMON TANSY |
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| ACHILLEA 'MOONSHINE' |
WELCOME FIRE AT THE END OF JULY
Saturday, 7:30 AM. 50 degrees F, wind N, light with moderate gusts. The sky is overcast and it rained during the night. The humidity is 89% and the barometer stands at 29.91". Our trip to Duluth yesterday was heavy rain and fog both ways. Certainly the whole region got at least an inch or more of rain yesterday and the temperature never got above the mid-fifties. Record low temperatures, dropping into the forties, are being predicted for northern Minnesota and northwestern Wisconsin. We built a welcome fire in the fireplace yesterday evening to dry out and warm up after the family came back from dinner. Much more of this Global Warming and we may all freeze to death.
The garden Achillea millifolium 'Moonshine' and the common tansy, Tanacetum vulgare, are easily confused at first glance. Both have heavily dissected leaves and bright yellow flower heads, and grow to about the same height. But the former seldom escapes the garden on its own, and the latter is mainly a roadside plant (which should be kept out of the garden as it will take over). Both have somewhat similar foliage, but the Tansy leaves smell rather medicinal when crushed, and the Achillea leaves have a strong rosin odor. The individual flowers of the Tansy flower heads look like gold buttons, and in fact "buttons" is its common name in England. The individual flowers in the flower heads of the Achillea are minute and closely crowded together.
I see where the US Department of Justice is investigating an Arizona high school that had a "Redneck" dress-up day based on the popular TV reality show Duck Dynasty. I guess it was fun for the kids until the feds swooped in. I sure hope they didn't scare the hell out of them by arriving in their black helicopters with assault weapons at the ready. Of course this action is justified; we can't have a tenth grade kid walking the school halls looking like a rebel, can we? Or thinking rebellious thoughts, for that matter.
I guess the next step will be to never allow anyone to use the "R" word (redneck) again, or the awful "D" word (duck) upon pain of their being castigated for it thirty years later.
Imagine going into a Chinese restaurant some day in the not-to-distant future and ordering Peking pressed "D." And the waiter says, "Solly, no more press druck. To much brack hericopter."
The garden Achillea millifolium 'Moonshine' and the common tansy, Tanacetum vulgare, are easily confused at first glance. Both have heavily dissected leaves and bright yellow flower heads, and grow to about the same height. But the former seldom escapes the garden on its own, and the latter is mainly a roadside plant (which should be kept out of the garden as it will take over). Both have somewhat similar foliage, but the Tansy leaves smell rather medicinal when crushed, and the Achillea leaves have a strong rosin odor. The individual flowers of the Tansy flower heads look like gold buttons, and in fact "buttons" is its common name in England. The individual flowers in the flower heads of the Achillea are minute and closely crowded together.
I see where the US Department of Justice is investigating an Arizona high school that had a "Redneck" dress-up day based on the popular TV reality show Duck Dynasty. I guess it was fun for the kids until the feds swooped in. I sure hope they didn't scare the hell out of them by arriving in their black helicopters with assault weapons at the ready. Of course this action is justified; we can't have a tenth grade kid walking the school halls looking like a rebel, can we? Or thinking rebellious thoughts, for that matter.
I guess the next step will be to never allow anyone to use the "R" word (redneck) again, or the awful "D" word (duck) upon pain of their being castigated for it thirty years later.
Imagine going into a Chinese restaurant some day in the not-to-distant future and ordering Peking pressed "D." And the waiter says, "Solly, no more press druck. To much brack hericopter."
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