I utilised two astelia for the purpose.
Sunday, February 13, 2011
Sheet!
I've always wanted to follow the old British habit of drying bed linen on hedges and springy shrubs, rather than a clothes line, so today I gave it a try.
I utilised two astelia for the purpose.
I utilised two astelia for the purpose.
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If we did that we would likely have a large Weta in the bed with us!
I shake 'em before I make the bed!
Have you heard this Shunda:
Get up get up you lazy head,
Get up you lazy sinner.
We need your sheets for tablecloths,
And it's nearly time for dinner!
Lavender would be a nice thing to dry washing on. Or rosemary. There's a new project for you Robert, plant a laundry garden ;-)
Wildcrafty - it's a funny thing, I was ruminating on the fragrant herb possibilities since I posted about the sheets and had decided to write about it for the NZ Gardener and now I'm going to ask you if I might use the 'laundry garden' idea - it's brilliant!!
I could do soapwort as well, couldn't I!
I draped my second washing of sheets over the Balm of Gilead and that's a very fragrant herb!
Happy days! (and nights!)
Go for it! I'd love to hear what you come up with.
Thanks!
Yucca has saponins in it too, enough apparently for using as a soap. It's in gardens here as an ornamental. Do people grow it down there (might be too wet)?
Soapnuts would be another good one, people are growing the trees in NZ now. I'm in two minds about it's use in the washing machine though. There was a good write up in Organics at one stage but I have a feeling it needs hot water to be effective.
Yeah, soap nuts - we sell them in the shop. Yucca does fine down here in fact there are some vey impressive specimens tucked up against north facing walls here in Riverton but even more of them in Bluff.
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