Green vase, deep green wood spurge, glaucose myrtle spurge, and grey-green cardoon. All greens.
I wanted to see them together because they really don’t like the same planting areas. Let us look at each one.
Myrsinites, myrtle spurge Euphorbiaceae. The leaves are spirally arranged and bluish-green. They have a white liquid when you cut the stem that is a skin and eye irritant for humans and animals. The flowers are inconspicuous but surrounded by sulphur yellow bracts. They are considered noxious weeds in Oregon, Colerado and Utah. Here they have the Royal Horticultural Societies award of garden merit for drought tolerant gardens. I bought two of these plants last year and they have done well through the winter. Apparently their seeds can project up to 15 feet!
Amygdaloides, wood spurge, Euphorbiaceae. The leaves are dark green and stay that way all winter. These thrive in dry shade where it is a good ground cover. It spreads rapidly by underground rhizomes and can become invasive.
The cardoon, the last one of three architectual plants we have had in the garden is draught resiliant, and comes up each year. It loves rich soil and full sun. It has been present in many of my posts. Together I thought these three would make a green vase celebrate its green.
So I celebrated it at the end of a brush with paint. Its different greens and movement. These are beautiful plants.
And now for a subject I have been looking at. What sabbath was nailed to the cross?
I was reading Leviticus, named after the tribe of Levi. It was the third book that Moses wrote. It is truly ancient.
Looking at chapter 23:3
‘ Six days your work will be done, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of rest, a holy day of meeting together. (a convocation)’
Then later in verse 24
‘ In the 7th month, on the first day of the month, you will have a sabbath, a memorial day for blowing trumpets…’
Then verse 27
‘ … also on the 10th day of this 7th month there will be a a day of atonement a sabbath day of rest to afflict your souls…
Ezekiel speaks about: ‘ meat offerings, drink offerings, in the feasts, and the new moons, and in all the sabbaths, in all the solemnities of the house of Israel… making reconciliation for the house if Israel.’ Ezekial 45:17
Paul speaks then after Jesus death: ‘ Let no person judge you in meat or drink, or in respect of an holy day, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath day: which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.’
He then says in his book to the Hebrews:
‘ For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the people who did them perfect.’ Hebrews 10:1
These laws were the ones all done away with because they looked forward to / were a shadow of what Jesus would do at the cross. The 10 commandments with Sabbath started at creation are still what we desperately need. A good read in
Exodus 20: 1-17.
The plants in early morning sunlight. We have a sunny day.
Take care,
Sandy 🙂
‘Resolution is about understanding rather than winning.’ I wonder who said that?