dazzhiggins@hotmail.com wrote:
> Declan Murphy wrote:
> > Nick Maclaren wrote:
<snip>
> > > Key questions about its flowers are the numbers of pistils, stamens,
> > > petals and sepals (even roughly).
> >
> > Of that I understand the words key, questions, flowers, petals and
> > roughly :-)
> >
> > Regards Declan,
> > Okazaki, Japan
>
> wait a second pal; did you say Japan?

Japan is an island country located on the eastern perimeter of Asia...
ohh sorry, that sounds like our local Mayor.
http://www.city.okazaki.aichi.jp/kurasi/english/index.htm

(Is Shibata-kun smirking or constipated?)

> You might have warned us that you were not in Limerick or Milton Keynes
> :-)

I thought I did warn youse. In the original post if I recall correctly,
which I must admit I don't always manage to do. Milton Keynes? Now
there's nostalgia...

...anyway getting the post back onto a gardening theme, I noticed
browsing the interwebthingy today that the not quite great but very
fondly remembered John Kenneth Galbraith is now unfortunately
composting. RIP John. I may be nought but a brown thumbed economist,
but I sincerely hope they'll honour you by naming a town after him like
they did for that Milton Keynes fella :-)

I don't have such fond memories of Limerick.

There was a tree from Milton Keynes

oh maybe not.

Um

There was a tree in Okazaki
its flowers were not what they seemed
it grew in japan
but confused a young man
and from usenet* the info he gleaned





*well, a combination of usenet and the fj hierarchy, but "fj hierarchy"
has too many syllables and the cross post was necessary. Most of our
regular fj.life-in-japan posters wouldn't know a garden if it grew
under their tatami.