Holly did such a good job on hybridizing. Seems she is good at almost anything she puts her mind to. Wish I had a daughter!
Holly's yellow brug ..unamed
That is a really gorgous brug. Alice. I think it is the prettiest yellow I have seen yet.
Had me real worried before I opened the picture, thought I was looking at a hybrid palm tree???brug =)
This yellow is drop dead georgous in my book. Can hardly wait until it is available.
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I'm waiting to learn what it means, and also how to pronounce it!! That pure yellow is to die for!!! but you know the more I look at it, I'm thinking the translation is "Caren really needs a cutting of this one!"
art_n_ garden ..you are close ..lol
True translation is: 'look for the woman'.
Look for her inside that lovely yellow skirt.
She is there (o:
Side attribute ..'Cherchez la Femme' has one of the highest fragrances ..
if not the most fragrant ..of all the brugs we grow (o:
That is saying alot with all the brugs you have Alice. Your special chicken and your daughter are just lovely!
edited to spell CHICKEN correctly!!!
This message was edited Dec 19, 2003 8:47 AM
Beautiful Yellow and Great fragrance also????Be still my heart ;~P
Meaning
The common usage of this relates to the quest for a woman as a sexual partner. The original meaning refers to a problem that would be solved if a woman could be found.
Origin
Coined by Alexandre Dumas in Les Mohicans de Paris, 1864.
kind of like a brug bootie call!
Its beautiful and I like the name LOL!
OK Ok,Most fragrant?I gotta beg,borrow or pull a garden night raid!LOL!
This is a beauty!
Root.
OHHH,don't know how I missed the famous chicken picture!Yes I do,I work WAY too many hours.....I need a life.......
I love the temperament of Cochin's,I have some large fowl Cochin that are just my pets,I don't show them,just keep them around cause they're so darn cute!I have a white hen(I bought her in Bloomsberg PA)that is HUGE!!!
I like the name of the yellow brug,I still think its the prettiest yellow I've seen!
Congrats!
Alice,I don't want to jump on your thread,but you girls talking Cochin's,I just found this picture a few days ago,it is just a little 2in. pic I found.Don't know how this will enlarge.
This is my Big Nanny(GM),she passed from Alzheimer's,I used to love my time to sit with her,I would sit her with some scratch and just let her feed the birds.
Root.
Hi Root,
Jump in anytime ..LOL
Thanks for this photo of Grandmother.
It is good to have photos like these and good memories (o:
I am sorry she is gone.
CC ..daughter Autumn likes the cochins, also.
She likes the bantams best as easy to handle. And cute and smart.
'Isabella' above photo is a true sweetheart. No fear.
Follows Autumn around like a puppy.
Alice, every time I look at the photo of the brug, I am blown away, such a lovely clear yellow brug. Please put me on a waiting list for this one!!
I forgot about this beauty. Color is gorgeous and I love the wavy skirt that it has. Congrats again to your daughter for such a lovely flower.
I like Carena's translation - Cherchez la femme = Booty Call! You asked for the pronunciation - /shair-shay la fehm/ is pretty close, give or take a dipthong.
It's one of those expressions that is so colored by the culture that it doesn't come off very well in other languages. Scooterbug's comments are good, though something makes me doubt that Dumas fils was the first Frenchman to use it!
Abutilon's literal translation is accurate: "Look for the woman." "The woman," here, refers to an abstract or ideal, rather than to any one woman.
Cherchez la femme is a cliché that is tossed off with humor, for example, as encouragement when a guy is feeling the lack of female companionship, or with sarcasm when a guy is too overtly on the prowl. You won't hear it from young people; it's very dated.
--change of subject--
About the chickens: In the last couple of months, I've started combining beautiful ground birds with my gardening. I'm enclosing the terrace that is lined on one side with bird and butterfly plantings and on the other with roses, lilies and irises mixed in a cutting garden, with tall totem-trellises in between, and I'm turning it into a bird garden. I'm putting in a little artificial pond (~250-300 gallons) for a small group of beautiful little ducks. My favorite so far is a little Mandarin that arrived untamed and is slowly allowing me to come closer. He is struggling with his natural fear of humans because he craves attention. He looks for me and whistles for me and coos when I'm near (but not too near), and, when I coo back, he wags his tail like a puppy. I've finally figured out how to use my digital camera, but I don't have any of him yet. The pic below is from a great wildfowl site www.kamileron.com though I still don't know what language it's in.
Besides ornamental ducks (mainly various teals), I'm slowly locating the Asian pheasants I've always found so beautiful. Impeyans, Goldens and white peafowl are settling in, and I'm waiting for silvers, Swinhoes, Temminck's tragopans, Siamese firebacks and Lady Amhersts to arrive in the next few weeks.
I had a pair of mandarins once,they are probably the most beautifully colored ducks in the world.
Alice I didn't know you all are into poultry collecting also. At one time I had about 21 varieties of pure bred banties along with many varieties of pheasant, peafowl, turkies, ducks ,guineas ,pigeons and quail. At one time I had somewhere in the neighborhood of 600-700 birds.
Bantams do make great little pets especially if raised from the egg.
That is a great looking Duck Rik,you will love the Swinhoe.
http://davesgarden.com/t/368952/
of the pheasants the red and yellow golds and the lady amherst were my favorites. Wanted some peacock pheasants but heard that they need special care.I have india blue pafowl and the peapheasants are totally different birds
Root, Love the Woodies, they are my fav and one of these days I will have some.
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Back to Cherchez La Femme, are we any closer to having some available cuttings? I am afraid I will forget about it and not get one. Tell your fascinating daughter that we are drooling here........
I have now, 4 banties, 2 hens, 2 roosters, how's that for good ratio?? I let one of the hens set on 3 eggs last summer. The rooster is about 5 years old, anyway only one egg hatched. I had hoped for another little hen, but it is a rooster. The two hens keep me supplied with enough eggs.
Also have 10 wild Ringnecked Pheasants. 5 males and 5 females. I put out feed for them 3 times a day, also for the more than 200 Calif. quail and hundres of small birds. Donna
Good to have so many Bird`s lovers here:-)
I am, too. These are peacocks.
Too cute Ludger! How long does it take for them to grow their adult plumage?
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I'm new to peacocks, but I hear it takes two years. Mine are only about six months old and are already so large. My Swinhoe and golden cocks are about the same age and their color is coming in patchily all over. It looks as if they'll have full color by summer.
I've found some old and reproduction prints of Asian pheasants that I'm framing. Here's the Swinhoe.
... and Impeyan.
... and golden pheasant.
The Lady Amherst pheasant from that series has been on display while the others have been stored, so there's lots of sun damage, but here's a reproduction of a different Amherst, and it even has (what I think is) a Japanese painted fern in it. (See, a plant tie-in!)
Alice, is your daughter any closer to sharing some cuttings this spring?
Alice, I pollinated Becca Lynn with Cherchez La Femme today, keeping my fingers crossed that it takes.
Ohhh My,
........ Mary, that sounds like it should be a beaut. Crossing fingers for ya =)
Mary, I never heard of Cherchez La Femme. Hope you get a beauty.
Ada, it is the pic of the yellow brug in the beginning of this thread.
Duh, Mary I just went to the top of this thread and seen it. it's beautiful. Can't wait to see what you grow from this mix. Best of luck.