{"id":1438,"date":"2010-09-02T23:05:01","date_gmt":"2010-09-02T22:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/?p=1438"},"modified":"2010-09-02T23:05:01","modified_gmt":"2010-09-02T22:05:01","slug":"the-gay-mother-in-dahlia-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/?p=1438","title":{"rendered":"The Gay Mother in Dahlia Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thursday 2nd September 2010<\/p>\n

The Gay Mother, 86, doesn’t like her dahlias – or some of them. ‘The size of dinner plates,’ she says. Bought by accident locally. Not ordered from a specialist nursery. ‘What could I have been thinking! I ought to know what “large-flowered, double” means.’<\/p>\n

She’s despondent about her garden generally. The deer have sat on it, or eaten it; the late annuals have hardly grown for lack of warmth. But really it’s marvellous and the colours much better than in a well-known nearby hortus (that’s Latin for garden, because I didn’t want to put ‘garden’ again)\u00a0 done by a jumped-up professional.<\/p>\n

You just can’t have orange and crimson and a terrible sort of chemical electric pink together – with pale blue agapanthus for punctuation\u00a0 – and conifers!<\/p>\n

I forgot to tell you that in July when I was with her, the Gay Mother appeared in my bedroom first thing saying, ‘I know there’s a recipe in Jane Grigson for a blackcurrant sauce to have with duck. But I can’t find it.’\u00a0 She’d been up since six. Her blackcurrant bushes were at that time abundant. She was determined to range beyond puree. We found the Grigson sauce, jettisoned her cassis and vinegar (ugh!) and put red wine. It was a success.<\/p>\n

Gay Mothers are where it all started. They are to be followed as well as outdone. As in the matter of the crusts – see graph below<\/p>\n

\"The

The Gay Mother's Dinner Plate Dahlias<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Dinner

Dinner Plate Dahlias in the Gay Mother's Garden. See Normal Size Next To..<\/p><\/div>\n

\"These

These Colours Together in Well-Known Nearby Garden<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Chemical

Chemical Electric Pink Dahlia in Nearby Well-known Garden<\/p><\/div>\n

\"The

The Gay Mother's Aga-done Rusk-Crust - a Drinks' Time Snack Suggestion<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thursday 2nd September 2010 The Gay Mother, 86, doesn’t like her dahlias – or some of them. ‘The size of dinner plates,’ she says. Bought by accident locally. Not ordered from a specialist nursery. ‘What could I have been thinking! I ought to know what “large-flowered, double” means.’ She’s despondent about her garden generally. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adrain-edge"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1438"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1444,"href":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438\/revisions\/1444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}