On or about July 4, the season of Galium gives way to a season that is more able to deal with the heat of what used to be called summer. I use the word summer in the same way that people use the words "wort" or "thy" or, "My mother will bake thee a bannock." We who follow this blog (which is actually nobody ) scoff--yea! we scoff!--at the use of outmoded words for seasons,
As summer progresses, Galium turns into the next season, Day Lily. I chose it because Hemerocallis fulva reminds me of a firework going off on the Fourth of July, which for the many of you reading this in Borneo is the US Independence Day, the day in 1776 when US botanists formally severed ties with the tyrannical English botanists lead by John Ray and his band of wild naked taxonomists. (Actually John Ray is a GOD, more on him later.)
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