Trees

[davidgillon]

 The tree at the bottom of my garden just opened up its leaf buds* today, this makes me happy.  There are also a handful of rather premature ** irises in bloom.

* as it's a 60-70 foot lime, that's a lot of leaves.
** premature as there's about 50 more haven't even started their flower spike yet.

Comments

[nanila]

Oh, lovely lime tree! Our small patch of irises haven't produced flower spikes yet.

[davidgillon]

The same patch of irises was way ahead last year too, it's a sheltered nook, but it doesn't get direct sunlight, so I'm sort of surprised. And the whole mass of them started as a small patch years ago, but I and they have gradually propagated them all around the garden.

[sunflowerinrain]

Lime, or linden?

That is a couple of weeks early for the irises - even here they aren't quite out.

/me wanders off singing Linden Lea

[davidgillon]

Lime, or linden?

Is there a difference? Once you rule out the citrus lime, I thought the names were directly equivalent?

[sunflowerinrain]

Lime for linden is a manglement, though as they don't look alike (apart from being trees), it's purely a linguistic manglement. Bit like calling a chimney a chimberly.

Linden-blossom tea is good.

[davidgillon]

Wiki gives Lime as an evolution of Middle English Lind/Line, while Linden was the adjective for made of Lind, but shifted to noun as a cognate of German Linden - so they're equally incorrect ;)

I'll take your word on the tea.