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Butterfly bush 'black knight'
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Buddleia 'black knight'
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Summertime!
Easy livin'
by Colour Your Life
The title of our theme this month captures the prevailing mood of July. As you probably know, it is the opening song (a lullaby in fact) in George and Ira Gershwin’s 1935 jazz opera ‘Porgy and Bess’, a portrayal of the plight of African American residents in a 1930’s Charleston ghetto, where life was anything but easy! But as is so often the case, popular interpretation replaces the artist’s original intention and ‘Summertime’ is now an ode to laid-back easy living of the sort we associate with high summer.