Subject: RE: Folk shrubbery From: Steve Shaw Date: 09 Jan 20 - 03:02 PM Some of these suggestions are simply not folk. They're just poplar music. |
Subject: RE: Folk shrubbery From: Richard Mellish Date: 09 Jan 20 - 03:45 PM We haven't had Bird in the Bush yet. |
Subject: RE: Folk shrubbery From: Richard Mellish Date: 09 Jan 20 - 03:46 PM Also The Furze Field. |
Subject: RE: Folk shrubbery From: Nick Date: 09 Jan 20 - 03:59 PM Steve, you may be right. I can think of at least tree |
Subject: RE: Folk shrubbery From: gillymor Date: 09 Jan 20 - 04:23 PM And from the sub genre Folk Shrubbery Rock there's Eight Miles Hydrangea. |
Subject: RE: Folk shrubbery From: Mrrzy Date: 09 Jan 20 - 04:25 PM Ni! Ni! |
Subject: RE: Folk shrubbery From: GUEST,toubabdoc Date: 09 Jan 20 - 05:14 PM And all planted by the Knights of Nie! (I like this onw much better than the thread I started.) |
Subject: RE: Folk shrubbery From: Steve Shaw Date: 09 Jan 20 - 05:35 PM Does stuff sung by the Treeorchy Malus Voice Choir count? |
Subject: RE: Folk shrubbery From: Steve Shaw Date: 09 Jan 20 - 05:37 PM Beech Bois? |
Subject: RE: Folk shrubbery From: Steve Shaw Date: 09 Jan 20 - 05:46 PM Four Men and a Dogwood approve of this thread... |
Subject: RE: Folk shrubbery From: Steve Shaw Date: 09 Jan 20 - 05:48 PM Hewin' MacColl? |
Subject: RE: Folk shrubbery From: Steve Shaw Date: 09 Jan 20 - 06:22 PM Buddleia can you spare a dime? Stop me somebody... |
Subject: RE: Folk shrubbery From: Steve Shaw Date: 09 Jan 20 - 09:24 PM Is David Boughie folk? |
Subject: RE: Folk shrubbery From: frogprince Date: 09 Jan 20 - 09:53 PM Bury me beneath the willow 'neath the weeping willow tree |
Subject: RE: Folk shrubbery From: Richard Mellish Date: 10 Jan 20 - 04:45 AM Keeping to the non-punny ones: Green Grows the Laurel / Green Grow the Lilacs. |
Subject: RE: Folk shrubbery From: Dave the Gnome Date: 10 Jan 20 - 05:21 AM Has anyone mentioned the bitter withy? One of the strangest songs about! |
Subject: RE: Folk shrubbery From: Steve Shaw Date: 10 Jan 20 - 05:25 AM "Maybe I'm thinking outside the wrong box." Haha, it's taken me 24 hours to get that one, Malcolm! |
Subject: RE: Folk shrubbery From: Dave the Gnome Date: 10 Jan 20 - 05:30 AM I miss a lot. It gives me the hebe jebes |
Subject: RE: Folk shrubbery From: Steve Shaw Date: 10 Jan 20 - 05:36 AM Maybe it's big gorse I'm a Londoner |
Subject: RE: Folk shrubbery From: Steve Shaw Date: 10 Jan 20 - 05:37 AM I'll never find another yew |
Subject: RE: Folk shrubbery From: Steve Shaw Date: 10 Jan 20 - 05:40 AM I'm having trouble working Santolina chamaecyparissus into a pun... |
Subject: RE: Folk shrubbery From: GUEST,Howard Jones Date: 10 Jan 20 - 05:45 AM Billy don't you weed for me |
Subject: RE: Folk shrubbery From: Michael Date: 10 Jan 20 - 07:24 AM Didn't Nic Jones sing about Santolina in The Bonny Bunch of Roses? |
Subject: RE: Folk shrubbery From: GUEST,HiLo Date: 10 Jan 20 - 07:38 AM Withy yew or without you..! |
Subject: RE: Folk shrubbery From: gillymor Date: 10 Jan 20 - 07:45 AM Who's that guy who plays guitar for Yew2, the Hedge? |
Subject: RE: Folk shrubbery From: Steve Shaw Date: 10 Jan 20 - 07:49 AM Wilson Thickett |
Subject: RE: Folk shrubbery From: Mo the caller Date: 10 Jan 20 - 08:05 AM If the popular music of John Playford's day (1650) counts as folk Greenwood Jenny Pluck Pears Hearts Ease* All in a garden green Daphne Oil of Barley *OK, pansy isn't a shrub |
Subject: RE: Folk shrubbery From: Steve Shaw Date: 10 Jan 20 - 08:49 AM Beethoven's Symphony no 3, the "Erica" |
Subject: RE: Folk shrubbery From: Steve Shaw Date: 10 Jan 20 - 09:03 AM The Hard Limes of Old England |
Subject: RE: Folk shrubbery From: Steve Shaw Date: 10 Jan 20 - 12:58 PM Copse, Bois and Simpson... |
Subject: RE: Folk shrubbery From: Nick Date: 10 Jan 20 - 05:41 PM Be very afraid I came across and borrowed a book of puns from the library. But luckily there is no gardening or shrubbery section. Steve did you get the Privet Message I sent? |
Subject: RE: Folk shrubbery From: Steve Shaw Date: 10 Jan 20 - 08:17 PM Indeed I did, Nick. It was shear genius. |
Subject: RE: Folk shrubbery From: Nick Date: 10 Jan 20 - 09:22 PM You don’t know how thicket made me feel |
Subject: RE: Folk shrubbery From: Steve Shaw Date: 11 Jan 20 - 04:36 AM It made my head feel all spinney. |
Subject: RE: Folk shrubbery From: WalkaboutsVerse Date: 11 Jan 20 - 06:39 AM "Green"/ecological gardening is native gardening, and vegetables, plus other consumables, should be the only exotic-flora we plant or hybridise - as doing so can help limit food-miles, etc. By filling our other garden spaces with natives, we limit the risk of foreign-diseases and -pests, plus use less water and other resources, whilst aiding the native-fauna that, over the centuries, evolved with them. (You have probably heard of American skunk-cabbage and Japanese knot-weed, among other big-problem species, but even high-nectar exotics, such as Buddleia, that are very attractive to some of England's native-fauna, should be avoided, because they upset nature's/God's balance – God created evolution, too, that is; so the Victorian plant-hunters were brave but wrong and, rather, it is better, for example, to grow geraniums in England, and pelargoniums in South Africa.) Our green gardens, with their edibles and natives (harvest and habitat), can be made still-greener by the addition of compost heaps/bins; a wildlife pond – for native frogs, newts, and so on, rather than exotic goldfish; bee- and bird-boxes, plus carefully-selected regularly-cleaned feeders; rain- and grey-water butts; by growing everything organically - including thrifty home-propagation, plus species-swapping; and by leaving lush untidy patches, with decaying branches (insect hotels). For those who agree, there are books and nurseries, some run by local councils, offering native plants and information on them. P.S: whilst our selection of indoor plants is, logically, not as critical to the ecology of our greater environment, we need to be wary of importing foreign diseases and fauna in plant pots and, thus, lean toward home-grown (from here). |
Subject: RE: Folk shrubbery From: gillymor Date: 11 Jan 20 - 07:30 AM Dang Furriners! "Carrisa Carrisa, Where ya been so long." |
Subject: RE: Folk shrubbery From: Mrrzy Date: 11 Jan 20 - 07:55 AM There is a mulberry tree in Jennifer Gentle. I heard that a Jew fell over it. We Mrricans find the British usage of shrubbery as a count noun (bring me a shrubbery!) rather than a mass noun (bring me some shrubbery!) already hysterical. |
Subject: RE: Folk shrubbery From: Daniel Kelly Date: 11 Jan 20 - 08:08 AM Some additions to the garden, a Prickle Holly Bush Lennon & McCartney aren't folk, but I folked 'em good and proper here: A Tree in the Life All shrubbery's need some Sandy Deny: Bushes and Briars |
Subject: RE: Folk shrubbery From: gillymor Date: 11 Jan 20 - 08:18 AM An yes, The Beatles (bane of all gardeners) are also responsible for "I'll Follow the Succulents". |
Subject: RE: Folk shrubbery From: gillymor Date: 11 Jan 20 - 08:26 AM read "Ah yes,..." |
Subject: RE: Folk shrubbery From: Nick Date: 11 Jan 20 - 08:36 AM I was just saying to my friend Chris and her mum (sorry!) is it a coincidence that all the Mudcat ads I'm seeing now are for hedge funds? |
Subject: RE: Folk shrubbery From: Mr Red Date: 11 Jan 20 - 08:50 AM Green Fields of France enough to make yer mind Bogle......... |
Subject: RE: Folk shrubbery From: Nick Date: 11 Jan 20 - 09:08 AM I knew why shrubbery has such a resonance with me. Bob Mortimer at his best BTW, I beg your pardon I never promised you a rose garden. (Dangerous thread creep as no folk in there again and only a bit of shrubbery) Reminded also when Sean Connery went into his local Chinese restaurant and said "Your chicken'sh rubbery"... Last post (that's not folk either nor shrubbery) Back to music and why dulcimer intonation frustrates me so much... |
Subject: RE: Folk shrubbery From: Dave the Gnome Date: 11 Jan 20 - 11:13 AM I have twigged that there are some people barking up the wrong tree. In fact, I'll go out on a limb and say if they don't leaf it alone they will become a thorn in my side. |
Subject: RE: Folk shrubbery From: gillymor Date: 11 Jan 20 - 11:43 AM Don't get your pansies in a wad, Gnome. |
Subject: RE: Folk shrubbery From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 11 Jan 20 - 12:17 PM I've never understood the "thorn in my side" thing. Thorns in the side are easy to remove. It's the thorns that break off under one's fingernails that are the real bitch. And exactly what does one need to be doing, and in what state of undress, to get a thorn in one's side in the first place? |
Subject: RE: Folk shrubbery From: GUEST,HiLo Date: 11 Jan 20 - 02:01 PM While shepherds watch their phlox by night..... |
Subject: RE: Folk shrubbery From: Mr Red Date: 12 Jan 20 - 06:31 AM what about all those beer songs? The ones with barley and such. Come to think about it "Coming through the rye" |
Subject: RE: Folk shrubbery From: Steve Shaw Date: 12 Jan 20 - 07:05 AM Humph. A lot of plants that aren't shrubs are creeping in here. I know this because I have a boozer's degree in Botany. Don't smirk: I got it at Imperial College, punks... |
Subject: RE: Folk shrubbery From: Steve Gardham Date: 12 Jan 20 - 08:13 AM Have we had The Bramble Briar?100 |
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