Comments on: You Have Purple Testes???

By: Feyoh

Feyoh — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 11:40:37 +0000

I love etymology and I thank you for the heads up about orchids. Snickered through the Kaplan bit: The vice principal turned orchid with rage…they’ve got to be kidding.

By: Mikky

Mikky — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 05:03:46 +0000

lovely photography….:)

By: navyGOLF

navyGOLF — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 19:31:30 +0000

My old aunt has several orchids at home and we are so amazed how she grows them and keeps them in bloom. A technique she shares every time we ask her is, she talks to them every morning, weird but true : )

By: Katrina

Katrina — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 15:45:19 +0000

It might even be clearer to say that the principal turned Katrina with rage! ;-D

By: home economist

home economist — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 12:04:30 +0000

my wild dream is to pollinate an orchid, watch the pod grow and open, and grow an orchid from the seed. hahaha!

By: Gay

Gay — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 03:49:14 +0000

I think my dad has a black thumb, too. We’re done a lot of planting together, sowing kalabasa seeds from the same batch, but his share never seem to germinate while all of the seeds I planted are now growing. We only realized it now, since before he was more of a duck farmer and when he stopped the business he turned into vegetable gardening as a hobby. So now we leave him to take care of the animals which he really does better.

By: Marketman

Marketman — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 02:28:37 +0000

Jenny, we are an equal opportunity writer… :)

By: Jenny

Jenny — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 01:12:17 +0000

For Buddha’s sake? Trying not to take the Lord’s name in vain, MM? :)

By: Marketman

Marketman — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 22:54:14 +0000

mila and millet, and to think, eggplants were named so because of pale cream eggshaped varieties of the vegetable… with aubergine in Europe being more appropriate to common varieties today! I actually saw EGG PLANTS as in the egg shaped cream colored ones at the Union Square market once… they were pretty cool…

By: mila

mila — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 20:33:18 +0000

I agree with millet, there are far more purple varieties of eggplant than orchids (purple:orchids as botany:Kaplan).