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Child in Thyme
In what Geoff Barton calls “the most un-rock’n’roll story of the year”, on May 19 Ian Gillan has opened a showcase garden for the Sutton Seeds company at the Chelsea Flower Show in London. Sutton Seeds is currently based in Paignton, Devon, which is just down the coast from Ian’s home in Lyme Regis. The region suffered from bad weather and flooding this past winter, and apparently the locals are keen to show that the crisis is over and the area is open for tourism again. The company is also said to be promoting a new variety of flower which is deep purple in colour.
Thanks to Yvonne Osthausen and Rock on Collectibles for the info. Photo: Gerry Edwards Flower Co.
Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing
I believe they won as well….http://www.westerndailypress.co.uk/Chelsea-Flower-Somerset-s-Tynings-Climbers/story-21115379-detail/story.html
May 21st, 2014 at 16:43Very apt, the Purple Tree has many roots and branches and many budding guitarists first song was oak on the water !!
May 21st, 2014 at 16:49Barfon.
May 21st, 2014 at 16:57he’s a seed king!
May 21st, 2014 at 17:49Did they ask Robert Plant first…..I’ll get my coat
May 21st, 2014 at 17:56Hey I’ll go for deep purple flowers anytime! Let me see… it grows best in a bed of rock. It was originally designed with a black stem but that version, although beautiful, didn’t last long enough. It now has five petals all equal in size. Most people wouldn’t pay much attention to it, but it soon will have many, many totally dedicated fans.
May 21st, 2014 at 18:07No no no
May 21st, 2014 at 19:26No Blackmore = no seeds
May 21st, 2014 at 19:42Good Guy that Big Ian .
May 21st, 2014 at 20:37Lorenc @ 7- shouldn’t that be Grow, Grow, Grow? Come on all you fans out there, surely you can also come up with a few ‘names’? Cheers.
May 22nd, 2014 at 03:46Lol…Child in thyme. Love it.
May 23rd, 2014 at 17:42SOMETIMES I FEEL LIKE SEEDING !
May 24th, 2014 at 21:57Let me add one more flower story to this chapter from Germany (from Bavaria, to be precise). When in July 2013 singer and composer J.J. Cale passed away, all our German
newspapers and magazines were full of appreciations for this great man – and they all included the same mistake: Counting up the bands and musicians that covered compositions of J.J. Cale, they listed Eric Clapton, Johnny Cash, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Jose Feliciano etc. and – Deep Purple. But – this is absolutely untrue. Our heroes did some covers (especially in the Mark I period) – but they never did any J.J. Cale composition.
How could this false story get on its way? It took me some time to find out: It originated from “DPA” (Deutsche Presse Agentur = German Press Agency). One member of their stuff must have put song titles of J.J. Cale separately in the google system, and when he was looking for “Magnolia” (a wonderful ballad) one of his findings was “deep purple”
– but this is not our band, this is one of the official english colour descriptions for this wonderful flower !
What a glorious misunderstanding – but it took its way all over each and every German paper.
Bernhard Huebl
May 24th, 2014 at 22:02Why didn’t Rosemary?
May 25th, 2014 at 01:45Maybe he hoped for some mandrake roots.
May 25th, 2014 at 08:00Congratulations Ian …. QPR back in the Premier League
May 25th, 2014 at 11:56@13: Ha ha! Great story!
May 25th, 2014 at 20:20Or maybe a Place In The Lime?
May 26th, 2014 at 09:55You keep on mowing?
May 30th, 2014 at 21:00HEAVY plant crossing. good on ya mate!!
June 1st, 2014 at 10:16Why didn’t Rose mary….
November 9th, 2015 at 05:20