Born Again Redneck's Daily Duh!: Dierama

Sunday, July 20, 2008

Dierama

Dierama is member of the grass family but it is more like an iris than a lily because it has corms rather than bulbs. It has many common names: hairbells, fairybells, wandflowers, angels fishing-rods, fairy wands. It is native to the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa which has a similar climate to western Oregon. As a result it does very well here.

The top picture is of them growing in their natural habitat in the Cape. Below that are three pics of mine that I took this afternoon. They have now reached their peak and are starting to fade. Some blooms have already fallen off.

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From Fred Thompson's blog, Fred08 on November 26th, 2007:

More Praise for Fred’s Tax Relief Plan - Patrick Joubert Conlon at Born Again Redneck called the plan, “music to a businessman’s ears.”

C.D. Jewell,

Liberalstein,

"This blog interested me first because of the title. But the quality of Patrick Joubert Conlon's writing has kept me coming back. His style is not presumptuous or pompous or condescending; it's plain and simple. Good old American English. Which is funny because Mr. Conlon was born and lived in South Africa for his first twenty one years and after that spent eight years in England before finding his home here in the U. S. His blog provides a rare outsider/insider perspective on the U. S. of A. He's been linked to by CNN on a couple of occasions and one of his posts was cited by the official Fred08 website. He does a lot of politics but also some lighter fare as well. He frequently posts spectacular photos taken on his Oregon farm."