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Andy, Billie Holliday, Carly Simon, Cat Stevens, Donna Summer, Grammer, Hugh Masekela, Jason Mraz, Johnny Nash, Katrina and the Waves, Lovin' Spoonful, Patti Labelle, Sam Getz, Simon & Garfunkel, Smash Mouth, U2, Vivaldi
Playlist by Algernon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-dYNttdgl0
Spring – From Four Seasons by Vivaldi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJBhdKrwTOc
The 59th bridge Street Song – Simon and Garfunkel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_jWHffIx5E
All Star – Smash Mouth
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwH4wPz-URM
Daydream – Lovin Spoonful
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKcGCObEb28
Grazing in the grass – Hugh Masekela
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=co6WMzDOh1o
Beautiful Day – U2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmrOB_q3tjo
Keep your head up – Andy Grammer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWfZ5SZZ4xE
New Attitude – Patti Labelle
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkHTsc9PU2A
I’m Yours – Jason Mraz
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KiFI25RgY0
Spring is here – Sam Getz
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMPlKAJa6io
Some other spring – Billie Holliday
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hv-dHoLgYw8
Spring Affair – Donna Summer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtnoKuAK32Q
Spring will be a little late this year –Carly Simon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FscIgtDJFXg
I can see clearly now – Johnny Nash
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0TInLOJuUM
Morning has broken – Cat Stevens
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPUmE-tne5U
Walking on sunshine – Katrina and the Waves
Window Dresser's Arms, Pig & Whistle 
Spring time… -Flower Duet-
Under the thick dome where the white jasmine
With the roses entwined together
On the river bank covered with flowers laughing in the morning
Let us descend together!
Gently floating on its charming risings,
On the river’s current
On the shining waves,
One hand reaches,
Reaches for the bank,
Where the spring sleeps,
And the bird, the bird sings.
Under the thick dome where the white jasmine
Ah! calling us
Together!
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Nice one ,hph, beautiful voices, and beautiful girls, Elina from Latvia, and Anna from Russia…
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Impressive jewellery, too, Helvi 🙂
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…yes, but I don’t like Anna’s dress, it’s sort of high school formal style…
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🙂
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As always, thanks for the list Algy. I was mightily relieved to see the beautiful and frighteningly expensive potted specimen -our Acer palmatum atropurpureum (one of the many varieties of Japanese maples) bud up and start to throw those wonderful feathery leaves just last week. Since autumn it’s looked so deceased, but the sudden rush to the fuse says to me that it’s really enjoyed the rest.
The days here are amazingly warm for September, but sadly the sea isn’t yet, so I am still waiting for the first plunge of this season.
This is a time of year that for me is full of expectation. My academic past shouts “FINAL EXAMS, YIKES” and a birthday for me and for Emmlet II ! And as the late great Billy Thorpe sang, “It’s almost summer …….”
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I’m afraid that’s the final flush before the end, Therese. A last gallant effort to set seed before it carks it. Japanese maples need snow in winter to do well, and the warm winter we just had has been too much for it. There’s a small chance it will survive, but if you have the same problem next winter it’s done for. Let me know and I’ll take it off your hands for free as a favour.
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Clearly, kindness has I bounds here, Voice. I’ll get back to you, as they say (with no actual intention) in California 🙂
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Japanese maple loves my backyard. I planted one about 32 years ago. It grew to the perfect size, i.e. big enough to throw shade over where the kids’ sandpit used to be. It survived 13 years of drought with only a couple of branches carking it but it made no difference to the appearance. I see the tree from my shower and the colour changes in spring are like autumn in reverse. Babies grow from its seeds very easily – I have to pluck them out like weeds. I don’t know more botanical info on my tree other than it is a Japanese Maple. All trees in our ‘backyard’ are deciduous for sun in winter and shade in summer. The walnut dominates and most of the nuts now get eaten by cockatoos.
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Can’t help you with the tree, however next weekend is the Long weekend which means Christmas Decorations in the stores and the long run into the silly season or it did once. The second part of the birthday season will be upon us soon too.
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Well thought out.
Quite a few in the list. Should be a broad appeal.
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Thanks Jules
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“Spring is here…..”
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…and here, and the tulips in full bloom, and the streets full of ‘outsiders’ …
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Though it feels more like Summer, GH
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Friday was terribly windy here, I was worried about the Tulip Festival, you can’t have a tulip celebration without tulips…all good, almost summer here too, I have never seen such abundance of flowers anywhere , any time…
We took our visitors to Milo’s creek walk, the water was covered in yellow pollen…
Tomatoes and hot chillies planted today…
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I loved all Bette’s stuff – all of it.
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Who can resist Vivaldi’s Spring? Thanks Algy for another wonderful week-end of music.
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It’s wonderful isn’t it. Thanks Gerard
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Alge, you have done it again, but right now I’ll have to go downstairs and start tidying up for visitors…
When I’ll come back it will Vivaldi first ,then Simon Garfunkel and my favorite girl: Carly Simon..
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Many others worth a look. You picked a couple of my favourites.
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I know and I have been listening to them after The Tulip Festival visitors left, I always start with the favourites. Thanks for an excellent selection again…
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Thanks Algernon, …Loved Billie Holiday, another spring time.
“Considered by many to be the greatest jazz vocalist of all time, Billie Holiday lived a tempestuous and difficult life. Her singing expressed an incredible depth of emotion that spoke of hard times and injustice as well as triumph. Though her career was relatively short and often erratic, she left behind a body of work as great as any vocalist before or since.”
from: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/episodes/billie-holiday/about-the-singer/68/
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Thank you hph, she had an extraordinary voice didn’t she.
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A very timely theme. My garden just swallowed an hour and a half.
If there ever were a single spring when growing roses in the Sydney region made sense, this would have to be it. Even MY old roses are thriving in the warm dry weather. I think Big M’s group could be spectacular.
Fingers crossed it doesn’t continue into a hot dry summer but it’s not looking good.
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Yes, it’s very Mediterranean, hot dry winds, and bugger all rain. I had some big, old standard roses along a fence, that were suffering from lack of pruning (the previous owner fancied herself as a gardener, but refused to prune anything), so took them right back to nothing, about two months back. Everyone said that I had killed them. Now we almost have the classic lollipop tops with flushes of blooms.
The downside of this dry spring is the need for water, especially for apples, and stone fruit that are trying to establish themselves. I suppose the home handyman could install a grey water system, and capture some of the teenager’s shower water!
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You must be another devotee of the Peter Cundall school of pruning. I once saw him live at the Gardening Australia exhibition and he did a very entertaining and drastic pruning of a potted lemon tree.
I’ve pruned my neighbour’s roses two years running. The hubby pruned back some of my very overgrown bushes with his chainsaw on a stick. Their roses hadn’t really been pruned since those neighbours moved in and last winter when the guy told me he’d already done it I offered to do it for him. I think he was in shock by the time I’d left. This year their two year old was horrified. He came outside and went “someone took our roses”.
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The bushes he pruned for me were a huge rhodedendron, some hakeas, and this tropicalish bush/tree with orange berries whose name escapes me at the moment.
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I’ve never seen Pete Cundall up close and personal, but he used to do his ‘citrus rejuvenation’ every couple of years on the show. Unfortunately, domestic plants behave in the way we expect them to behave, that is make flowers, and hence, fruit, because of centuries of breeding, and pruning!
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I miss Pete Cundall’s enthusiasm, there isn’t anyone else out there like him…the Greek bloke on ABC isn’t bad either.
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My Dad hasn’t forgiven the ABC for replacing ‘Our Pete’ with that ‘hairy f*&^ in’ hippy’!
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Yes Bondi’s chosen one looks like he could do with a good shave.
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..or a handywoman, when on the farm, we had almost ten years of drought, yet our huge garden flourished,I had big solid plastic drums where grey water went; my exercise routine was to carry it in buckets to the nearby garden, the rest of garden was watered with river water…pumping it out of the water out of the river was expensive; we had massive electricity bills…it was worth it…
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It was so dry here that, whilst Mrs M was watering, a Blue Tongue Lizard sprinted out of the bush to get a drink, then frolicked like a small child under the spray. never seen them do this before.
She also saw an echidna not 100 meters from the hospital last week.
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Of course it should be dry on the east coast, well around Sydney at least as any rain would come from the south. Being that it would fall on the other side of the mountains. September is Sydney’s driest month. On top of that this September should also be the hottest on record with an average more like early December.
for all of that our Roses started flowering about a month ago. Always a hard prune in July and we have great blooms through spring and beyond.
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It’s one of those rare times out our way. We are greener than ever for this time of the year. The tanks are full and the only things which need water are the bird baths and a few pots under the verandah. The grass grows while you look at it, the blossom is everywhere where it should be and just in the nick of time we have huge winds and the sun is not out. Yesterday was a glorious spring day. Today it’s cold. I was going to plant my tomatoes today but decided against it. I have been growing on two Heirlooms (no idea what kind), one Burkes Backyard (they were delicious last year) and one Roma. I’m back to supplying my butcher with parsley – the saved seed is still performing wonderfully with flat and curly leaf on the one plant. All the herbs are going gangbusters. I pulled out the ancient sage bush and one of its babies has grown nicely in its place.
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The play list is of course excellent Algy.
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Thank you Vivenne. 30 degrees here today and dry as.
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Viv, I bought my tomato and hot chili seedlings but will not plant them today, very windy here.
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Planted mine today Helvi. They look good and happy to be in the ground.
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Planted mine today, after the visitors left, beautiful, warm, wind free day here. Good for Bowral as we have lots of visitors for the yearly Tulip Festival, lots of things happening…
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