Welcome to my all white garden! There is just something about white. This also makes me think of men playing cricket in England dressed in their all whites. (Forgive me if I only say England but that is the only place I have ever seen it being played!)
Yucca cactus flower- Arabia Mountain
Hydrangea - Monastery in Rockdale County
it was a beauty!)
Many of these flowers I have here for you are no longer in bloom but you guessed it... I can't get them out of my head!
"Can't Get It Out of My Head" by ELO. I am sure you must know this song but please listen to this video. It is Jeff Lynne on guitar and Richard Tandy on piano with Jeff Lynne doing the vocals, of course. So, just a man singing and playing his guitar with a piano accompaniment. JUST! It is amazingly good! See, if you don't agree.
There, isn't that something? I have read that he wrote the song after his Dad mentioned to him that his songs lacked the melodic quality of classical music. This was his answer to that!
And you have to love a song that has this in the lyric:
"Robin Hood and William Tell and Ivanhoe and Lancelot, they don't envy me".
Here are all the lyrics if you would like to sing along:
Midnight, on the water
I saw the ocean's daughter
Walking on a wave's chicane
Staring as she called my name
I saw the ocean's daughter
Walking on a wave's chicane
Staring as she called my name
And I can't get it out of my head
No, I can't get it out of my head
Now my whole world is gone for dead
'Cause I can't get it out of my head
No, I can't get it out of my head
Now my whole world is gone for dead
'Cause I can't get it out of my head
Breakdown on the shoreline
Can't move, it's an ebbtide
Morning, don't get here tonight
Searching for her silver light
Can't move, it's an ebbtide
Morning, don't get here tonight
Searching for her silver light
And I can't get it out of my head
No, I can't get it out of my head
Now my whole world is gone for dead
'Cause I can't get it out of my head, no how?
No, I can't get it out of my head
Now my whole world is gone for dead
'Cause I can't get it out of my head, no how?
Bank job in the city
Robin Hood and William Tell
And Ivanhoe and Lancelot
They don't envy me
Robin Hood and William Tell
And Ivanhoe and Lancelot
They don't envy me
Sitting 'til the sun goes down
In dreams the world keeps going 'round and 'round
In dreams the world keeps going 'round and 'round
Your flowers bloom so much quicker than ours up here. So pretty and they give me something to look forward too. Although some of my flowering plants are up and running. I'll be doing a post soon and probably featuring a few. Have a lovely weekend down there!
ReplyDeleteThis year was different. The spring was much cooler so the flowers lasted for a much longer time. I really enjoyed that!
DeleteEnjoy your flowers when they get here!
I like the variety in the white flowers, especially the magnolia and the hydrangea.
ReplyDeleteYou would love the Monastery here then! :-)
DeleteOx eye daises are one of my favorites.
ReplyDeleteYes! We love them too. I notice you use a daisy beside your blog name, I love that!
DeleteAs I'm sure you know, the most famous "White Garden" was/is in England -- created during the 1950s at Sissinghurst Castle in Kent by Vita Sackville-West, the English writer who was Virginia Woolf's lover. The garden is still maintained today by the National Trust:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/sissinghurst-castle-garden/features/a-moonlit-masterpiece-at-sissinghurst-castle-garden
Oh yes! I have heard of that white garden and I wish I could see it! I usually only get to Sussex when I am in England but sometimes I make it up to Kent, so maybe I will see it one day! (Kent is just the next county up, but still not as easy to get around in England as you might think!)
DeleteHi Kay, I love all the white flowers. Daisies are so sweet to mix with other flowers. Hope you are well. Blessings, xoxo, Susie
ReplyDeletep.s. thanks for the good wishes.
Hey Susie!
DeleteOh! Thank YOU for sending me a reply! You are so sweet, you didn't have to! Love to you and to your Teddy!
xx
Nice flowers. They do play some cricket in Scotland, usually in more affluent areas, same as rugby, but a small east coast Scottish cricket team once won the National villages cricket tournament. Freuchie Cricket Club from Fife in 1985 beat all comers to win at Lord's, home of English Cricket. The English were 'well scunnered' as the saying goes.
ReplyDeleteAs I say, I really don't know much about cricket, I have just admired how they look at the cricket pitch in England! I do like sports though and I am sure that I could get into it!
DeleteGlad you like the flowers!
Beautiful white flowers. I know they look wonderful all together. My daughter is a fair skinned Irish lass. She looked so good in white. I was a sucker and bought her so many white clothes. She would promptly go out and cover them with grease and dirt!
ReplyDeleteFor me, I have to be careful when I wear white...my skin is so pale, I looked all washed out! You can't tell where the cloth ends and my skin begins, if you see what I mean!
DeleteA nice idea to have a "white flowers" post. There was plenty of white here when the orchards were in bloom a month or so ago, and right now, elderflower trees are still in bloom, looking so bright and pretty among the green.
ReplyDeleteAnd our white blooms lasted such a nice long time, it was unusually cool for Georgia in April and early May. Usually things will bloom and the heat takes them away very quickly!
DeleteI love white flowers, if only because as the sun sets they are the last ones visible...I wish we could grow that southern magnolia this far north. It is so beautiful! And I really like this song. It has its own beauty, though it also has its own melancholy.
ReplyDeleteGlad you liked the song!
DeleteI had a sentence here in my post that said I loved white flowers because you can see them very well even when it is almost dark and also if you go into your garden at daybreak, they seem to be glowing. I lost that sentence somehow so now I have it here in a reply to you! (I am sure I stated it in a MUCH more poetic way but that is as well as I can remember it! LOL.)
Thank you for sharing your beautiful flowers. It's no wonder you can't get them out of your head. They are beautiful !
ReplyDeleteThank you! Happy you liked my white garden!
DeleteLovely flowers.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Pam!
DeleteYeah, I love white flowers, too, particularly those daisies.
ReplyDeleteI am thinking of the flowers in Hawaii. One of my friends had a death in her family and a family member sent her a lei from Hawaii. It wasn't like a lei with flowers strung together, like what I think of but rather, flower PETALS put together so that it looked like a necklace. So beautiful.
DeleteAloha!
I enjoyed your white flowers. The only white flowers I have out at the moment are on a very prolific Alpine the name of which escapes me.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Graham! I tried to find the photo where I was posing with "snow in summer", a white flower that I really love. (This was on the seafront in Eastbourne from years ago.) I was told that snow in summer is just a ground cover but I really liked it!
DeleteLovely seeing your white flowers, I especially liked the Ox eye daisies.
ReplyDeleteAll the best Jan
Thank you, Jan! They kept popping up in our yard and we were happy to let them grow and bloom.
DeleteDo you remember this line, "small and white, clean and bright, you look happy to meet me". That is from the song "Edelweiss" the lyric is from one of my heroes, Oscar Hammerstein. That line is perfect for these daisies!
Lovely flowers and I know that ELO song, very nice.
ReplyDeleteFlowers and ELO, always good!
DeleteThanks for your comment! x
Now I've got Kylie Minogue's song going through my mind!! I can't get it out of my head!! :)
ReplyDeleteBeautiful flowers. Keep taking good care, Kay...all the best to you and your family. :)
Yes, Can't Get YOU Out of My Head!! :-)
DeleteLovely to see your comment. My lemons are getting bigger. Wish us luck, "Lee" the Lemon tree is doing well!
Gosh! I don't think I've ever seen a white amaryllis. That's beautiful.
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