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By Shelagh Stewart

October.

October marks the end of the growing season and what a trying season it‟s been! Record breaking rain and chilly temperatures have seen gardeners eve-rywhere struggling to grow very much at all. It‟s difficult not to have high expec-tations when it comes to the summer months, when spring arrives and we get to enjoy those surprise sunny spells we see it as the warm up act for summer, a taste of things to come. We imagine beautiful gardens, barbeques and strappy sandals are just ahead, when more often than not we end up with the central heating on, looking out of the window at the slug and snail festival that‟s being held in our rain battered gardens. I‟ve decided that next year instead of having the summer as the main event, I‟m planning for spring. If there‟s any barbequing at my house, it‟s going to happen on a sunny May afternoon. Spring gardens are bursting with life and full of promise, fresh acid green shoots and buds seem to grow before your eyes and it‟s impossible to look at carpets of spring bulbs and not feel cheerful. For a fabulous spring garden…….. *Start with a general weed and tidy. Cut back anything dead, dying or diseased. Dig over empty areas and store away the garden furniture. *Prune bush and climbing roses to prevent damage from winter winds. Reduce by half now and half again next spring. Weed and mulch. *Clear away the leaves regularly, especially off lawns. *Although Buddleja and Lavatera should be cut back hard in spring, you can reduce them by half now to keep them tidy. *Keep rhododendrons, azaleas and camellias well watered now, this encourages the produc-tion of buds for next year‟s flowers. *Hardy annual seed like; calendula (marigolds), centaurea (cornflowers), lunaria (honesty) and poppies should really be sown in September, but you can still get away with sowing now as long as you‟re quick. *Fill in empty gaps by planting out spring favour-ites like sweet Williams, primulas, polyanthus, foxgloves, campanula, bellis , myositis and as many wallflowers as you can squeeze in. *If you‟ve got room for something larger, October is an ideal time for planting shrubs. Prepare the ground well before planting and keep plants watered until established. There are lots of shrubs that will give the garden a boost in spring, my top three are: Chaenomeles (flowering quince) which has clusters of pink/red flowers on bare stems. Ceanothus (Californian lilac,) which is smothered in clouds of blue flowers and Choisya (Mexican orange), which has lovely aromatic leaves and delicate white flowers.

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*If you‟re lucky enough to have room for a small tree, nothing wakes up a garden from its winter sleep better than spring blossom. Do your homework and check the eventual height and carefully consider its position in the garden. Prunus (flowering cherry) and Malus (crab apple) are the obvious choices, but for something a bit more special an Amelanchier will pro-vide year round interest starting with beau-tiful white flowers in March/April. If you‟re short of space you can still enjoy a spring flowering tree with Magnolia stellata. It‟s

more of a large shrub than a tree and quite slow growing so it could easily start life in a spacious pot. It produces large silky white buds in spring which open to star shaped flowers. *Don‟t forget the importance of foliage in any garden scheme. For larger shrubs you can‟t beat a photinia, the older leaves are a sturdy mid-green, but the new growth is bright red, it‟s an outstanding combination. At the front of the border or in smaller spaces and even in part shade, Euphorbia polychroma is a real spring asset. It‟s neat, mound forming habit of very bright green leaves with yellow heads is the perfect companion to spring flowers. I recommend the addition of a Dicentra (bleeding heart) to any garden, especially the white Dicentra spectabilis Alba. They‟re reliable and elegant with bright green ferny foliage and pure white flowers that drip off arched stems. Despite looking so delicate they‟re re-markably sturdy and self-sufficient. They‟re good looking enough as a stand-alone plant, but they‟re at their best in partial shade in a mixed border. *Spring is all about the bulbs! There are so many to choose from: crocus, tulips, daffodils, narcissus, muscari , early flowering alliums, fritillaria and anenomes to name a few. Check the packets for flowering times and aim to extend the flowering season by using different varieties. Plant in groups of odd numbers which looks more naturalistic. *Plant up pots with spring flowering bulbs, especially dwarf varieties like narcis-sus tete a tete , iris reticulata and tulip „Red Riding Hood‟ . For scented pots use hyacinth and Lily of the valley. To get maximum benefit and enjoyment position the pots as close to the house as possible. *The main pests to prepare for are slugs, snails and squirrels. Use slug traps and pellets with care. Pots of bulbs should be covered with chicken wire to deter raiding squirrels.

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butter and place a round of greaseproof paper in the base.

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Words with a Story Attached

Bill Keeth trots out some speculative etymology

Kyrie Irving, Cleveland Cavaliers

I wonder if, as I do, you occasionally stall upon reading a particular word. Then, rather than continuing with the book or article you originally intended to read, find yourself musing instead about the word in question. About its meaning, its implications, its provenance. Take the word “companions”, for instance – as I did recently, from the JB Priestley book title that describes them thus: The Good Companions. Whereupon I got no further. With the book, I mean. Anyway, what the heck was I doing, looking to read The Good Companions, you ask? It‟s 80 years old if it‟s a day? Ah! disdain not dead authors, I beg of you. Just because your doctrinaire local council seeks to brainwash you by means of a bye-law banning books more than ten years old. Because Ernest Hemingway was of the opinion that dead authors were his only competitors. Grab yourself a long overdue break from the zeitgeist, the Spirit of the Age, as exemplified by the Gruinard [sic] or (God, help us!) the Sun. Unearth John Braine‟s late Fifities-penned gem, Room at the Top, please do; Nevil Shute‟s ultra-mannerly WWII escapades (Pied Piper, The Chequer Board, A Town Like Alice); Cronin‟s The Green Years and The Citadel, Henry Fielding‟s licentious 17

th Century romp, Tom Jones; Suetonius‟s utterly scurrilous Twelve Caesars,

whence Robert Graves brought I, Claudius and Claudius the God to life. Besides some writers are invariably good, and John Boynton Priestley [RIP] is one of these. If you manage to get past the title of the book, that is. For myself, though, I fell to musing about the word “companions”. That is to say, about “those who accompany one on a journey – a pilgrimage”, say; or (there being strength in numbers), “for protection on a business trip”. And so, according to the Latin word “panis: bread”, which forms an integral part of this word, your “companions” are “those with whom you break bread – share your bill of fare”. In any case, that‟s just one example of the sort of verbal drift I‟m talking about, which on this occasion caused me to put down my copy of The Good Compan-ions, un-reread apart from its title. Because I seem to remember doing this on another occasion, too (perhaps it was in a previous edition of Life magazine),

when I suggested that the Boer word “macha: friend, pal” (one of a handful of

Boer words that have made it to street level English, but no further – e.g.

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“yonks: ages”; “ronk: smell”; “scran: food)”, is generally rendered “mucker” in these parts. Because soldiers from our locality (I‟d like to imagine) perhaps landed in South Africa at the time of the Boer War to find a Cockney

regiment already in situ and chirruping “macha” to all and sundry. Whereupon, given our normal understanding of the Cockney pronunciation of the “u” sound [butter/batter, mutter/matter, gutter/gatter] these speculative forebears of ours naturally assumed that the Boer word in question should really be pronounced: “mucker”. At which juncture of linguistic gymnastics, I would ask you to access the fol-lowing snippet via your PC:

www.devour.com/video/uncle-drew/

You‟ll find this clip features professional basketball player Kyrie Irving, “Rookie of the Year” with the Cleveland Cavaliers (a misnomer if ever I heard one, since they certainly don‟t ride horses). Anyway, in the clip to which I refer you, 20 year old Kyrie Irving is made up to look like an octogenarian – Uncle Drew, as they call him, as he sets out in disguise to humiliate the members of a handy-looking youth basketball team in downtown Bloomfield, New Jersey. Mark well Kyrie Irving‟s words of scorn: „These young guys,‟ says he, disdain-fully, „they don‟t practise the fundamentals.‟ That‟s what he says, isn‟t it? When he‟s in the taxi: „These young guys . . .‟ Or is it? Listen to those words a second time. They‟re heavy with that Yankee twang we‟re all inured to. „These guys‟, huh? Or, if we forget for a moment that this is an indigenous American speaking, and concentrate instead on the words them-selves, what Kyrie Irving is really saying is: „These gars!‟ Gars? Heck, gars is a French word, meaning: “lad/lads”, “young fella/fellas” – a di-minutive of the French word “garçon: boy”. Because, once upon a time, prior to the Louisiana Purchase, which occurred some 200-plus years ago, there was a pretty extensive French presence in the southern United States. Nowadays, this fact is oft forgotten even though the French language has coloured the way in which American English is pro-nounced in the Deep South. So what‟s the betting the French word “gars” travelled northwards over the years on the lips of drovers, carpetbaggers, emancipated slaves and others too numerous to mention. Then, upon hearing these newcomers employ the word, “gars” ,the more-correctly spoken northern WASPS (White Anglo-Saxon Protestants) reckoned: „Oh, that‟s just the way they talk Down South; what they‟re really saying is “guys”.‟ Or words to this effect. Anyway, listening to Kyrie Irving‟s jive talk, as mentioned above, I am con-vinced that this is exactly what happened with the French word gars. How about you gars? — ‟n‟ dolls, if it comes to that?

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