In my old house I used to have a rose called Remembrance. Remembrance Rose : Floribunda / Cluster Flowering - Less 100cm : Roses Uk After my Italy trip I had to buy this when I saw it. Clematis Polish Spirit. BBC - Gardening - Plants - Plant Finder - Clematis 'Polish Spirit' I'm still trying to track down one called 'Monte Cassino' I have a few Poppies scattered around too. Anyone else have anything planted in their garden that has a link to WW2?
Owen Don't know of any aircraft named after flowers, but we have a few good garden nursery's near here and when I visit I'll enquire about your Clematis.
I know of a Garden centre owner/market gardener who spent (iirc) 13 years restoring a Churchill Tank to running condition in a poly-tunnel before bringing it along to the first Beltring I attended. Now that's Horticulture! I believe it's now on static display at his place of business (?).
Our local garden centre has a poppy as its logo, in prominant view as I drive past every morning. The nearest our garden comes to WW2 is the large amount of reinforced concrete which was dumped there by the previous owner. Peter's gardening list may have answered a query that cropped up while I was reading up on crash sites. For several Lancasters that were lost, the mission was reported as 'gardening'. Where more detail was given, they seemed to have actually been dropping mines off the Dutch or German coast. Is this the list above the explanation of this phrase?
Yes Dave that is correct. Below is a table with a list of the codes given to sea lanes and areas that Bomber Command dropped mines in. The codeword for a mining operation was "Gardening", and the area codes used generally followed a horticultural theme, although there were a few exceptions, as can be seem from the list below. >>>> mines
Owen, Dave, The Gardening list I posted above is the official list taken from the document AIR41/47 and covers the period July 1941 to February 1943. Dave, if you would like copies of maps of the area covered I can post them here.
Anyone else have anything planted in their garden that has a link to WW2? Not WW2, but we have roses named "Spion Kop" (could never find any called "Kampfgruppe Peiper", but I live in hope!). (Oh yes, I almost forgot - my dad has a WW1 Livens projector tube ( a "souvenir" of a long ago battlefield trip!) in his garden that serves as a plant-pot -does that count?) Dave.
does that count? Yes just the sort of thing I'd like to hear about. Maybe I should have said anything military related. Anyone have screw-pickets for fence posts? A hanging basket made out of an upturned rusty tin-lid etc etc? Anyone growing plants from cuttings taken from a CWGC cemetery? Anything like that counts.
Yes just the sort of thing I'd like to hear about. Maybe I should have said anything military related. Anyone have screw-pickets for fence posts? A hanging basket made out of an upturned rusty tin-lid etc etc? Anyone growing plants from cuttings taken from a CWGC cemetery? Anything like that counts. This from an anonymous local history website concerning my partof the world: 'It was in 1937 that the peace and tranquility of the parish was to be severely shattered. During this year the R.A.F. Station at Brize Norton was first occupied, when the No. 2 F.T.S. came down from Digby in Lincolnshire, together with No. 6 Maintenance Unit. The Station became a very busy one, and hundreds of pilots received their first Wings here. During World War II the now famous Gliders came to Brize Norton, and up to quite recently evidence of them could still be seen around some of the back gardens where the bodies had been converted to excellent garden sheds. Although the largest part of the airfield is in this parish, it has been rumoured that the name Brize Norton was given to the station in order to avoid confusion with the station at Cardington in Bedfordshire.' Never seen them myself but it makes a good story. I 've always fancied a Fiesler Storch for my geraniums but will probably have to wait for that lottery win....
If I recall rightly the Hamilcar section that Bovington's Tetrarch is displayed within was rescued from a similar fate. http://www.cleeveprints.co.uk/bovington/DSCF0091%20(Large).JPG
Horsa recycling. YouTube - Horsa Invasion Gliders converted into homes Plywood from one used on a Norwegian shed. Horsa DP349 Wing and fuselage plywood covering, complete with original paint and markings were donated by the owners of the land where DP349 crashed. The plywood had been used as roofing on a shed
Last two shots on that video are priceless. Ideal Homes and Garden 1946... (and yes H, sheds are a mighty blessing.)
Not WW2 but still interesting. Photo: War-scrap plant pot, Ban Na Sala, Laos a cluster bomb casing, used as a planter Picasa Web Albums - Fran - North Thailan... bomb casing used as plant pot, temple, luang prabang Picasa Web Albums - Andrea - Laos And unfortuantley, Laos is the most bombed nation on Earth. This picture depicts a bomb used as pot plant-one of the many examples of Lao people making use of scrap metal from the war years.
What on earth was/is this? Not a bomb is it? More of a maritime object? bomb pot plant on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
