If you can't beat them...

By Jerra

Bleeding Heart (Dicentra spectabilis )

Coffee and cake Wednesday.  So a garden centre, I am driving again so we headed for Dobbies at Carlisle.  Currently they are building a southern by pas for Carlisle and it is a pain in the posterior.  I am sure it will be great particularly for the people of Carlisle but in the mean time (it has been going on for two years) it is a damned nuisance.

So we turned off the M6 to go through Dalston.  A couple of miles of 30 mph even when there were no exits/entrances to the works.  Arriving at the next junction we found the road ahead was closed, it must be nearly a month now.  The road to the left has been closed for most of the two years.  So we followed the diversion, all the way into Carlisle (a distance greater than the distance to the garden centre from where the road was closed) through the city and out to the garden centre (again longer than the direct route).  Sorry rant over.

The blip I nearly forgot. Normally I take a shot of the label for variety etc.  Today I didn't as I saw Clickychick taking shots and thought she will have recorded it.  Wrong!  Looking it up I find that it is no longer Dicentra it is Lampnocapnos.  I wish they would leave names alone!  Everything seems to be changing its name, plants, birds fungi.  The question is why?  I can understand that occasionally a plant/animal/fungus changes because originally it was out into the wrong group, but wholesale changes, nonsensical.  With birds they have even changed to common names e.g Buzzard has become Common Buzzard, the Oystercatcher is now a Eurasian Oystercatcher and Swallows are Barn Swallows.

Sorry but I needed a good rant.

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