tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5043852825601326628.post4011761528426079857..comments2023-05-07T01:12:25.410-07:00Comments on Daffodil Planter: The dangers of garden literature"Daffodil Planter" Charlotte Germanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04892686231029047130noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5043852825601326628.post-90366423336361699562010-02-17T16:53:52.459-08:002010-02-17T16:53:52.459-08:00And here I just look at Ivy and sigh ~ it won'...And here I just look at Ivy and sigh ~ it won't survive the winters here. So, I can blissfully dream about ivy-covered gates and buildings, knowing that I won't have to encounter ivy's invasive tendencies. A lovely-written post, DP!kate smudgeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10564410520744285676noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5043852825601326628.post-65285900148746412702009-12-23T07:28:41.960-08:002009-12-23T07:28:41.960-08:00Welcome Kathryn! How you escaped my Northern CA bl...Welcome Kathryn! How you escaped my Northern CA blogroll I just don't know, but you're there now. Love the ivy quote from your wise friend."Daffodil Planter" Charlotte Germanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04892686231029047130noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5043852825601326628.post-44077132629343231112009-12-12T21:02:51.585-08:002009-12-12T21:02:51.585-08:00I WISH I could renounce her work! I love Sara Crew...I WISH I could renounce her work! I love Sara Crewe/ A Little Princess. Funnily enough, I never read Secret Garden till I was grown...Genevievehttp://www.northcoastgardening.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5043852825601326628.post-3444643722168811522009-12-07T07:19:30.625-08:002009-12-07T07:19:30.625-08:00That's hilarious! They also make the rats that...That's hilarious! They also make the rats that live in the ivy a whole lot cuter. Imagine the "Secret Garden" as "The Secret Modernist Phormium Filled Garden." Somehow it just isn't the same.Kat Whitehttp://www.thekatsgarden.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5043852825601326628.post-52746328915070271362009-12-06T21:02:26.741-08:002009-12-06T21:02:26.741-08:00Ah, tis not just ivy! Trumpet vine and pink jasmin...Ah, tis not just ivy! Trumpet vine and pink jasmine can be just as lovely and terrifying!<br />Having recently reclaimed an overgrown (30'!)olive tree from their grips I no longer hear furry creatures hustling and bustling about in the tree at night. To be safe I've whacked off the vines at the base..but left the bigger ones, now dead, for the birds to twitter in.Surely there will be upstarts at the base come spring.<br />It seemed like such a lovely idea at the time.. 11 years ago.. not! Love "The Secret Garden" here at the Not-so-Secret-Garden.Weederhttp://weedersgarden.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5043852825601326628.post-91977695597702832862009-12-05T18:35:59.341-08:002009-12-05T18:35:59.341-08:00Aw, yes, I have a love hate relationship with ivy ...Aw, yes, I have a love hate relationship with ivy myself! Actually it now leans toward the latter for very similar reasons. It's invasive stuff! I had a woman tell me once, "You will spend half your life trying to establish ivy and the other half trying to control it." Love the post.Kathryn/plantwhateverbringsyoujoy.comhttp://plantwhateverbringsyoujoy.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5043852825601326628.post-81945625025302336632009-12-04T17:27:56.724-08:002009-12-04T17:27:56.724-08:00Helen, Can you really resist that ivy-clad door on...Helen, Can you really resist that ivy-clad door on the cover of the book? It takes a Canadian like yourself to nail the requisite vocabulary--whilst, waft and trug. Here's another one--under-gardener."Daffodil Planter" Charlotte Germanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04892686231029047130noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5043852825601326628.post-24641094928989377642009-12-04T15:46:44.545-08:002009-12-04T15:46:44.545-08:00DP, Were I to conjure up a vision for my garden in...DP, Were I to conjure up a vision for my garden inspired by The Secret Garden, it would not be ivy. It would be: hired help. That would not be a horror story, but a charming fairytale. Sigh. (I should add, that the help would do the heavy lifting and digging, whilst (a dream like this deserves a "whilst") I would waft with my trug and say: move this.Helenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14527649631254016576noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5043852825601326628.post-57033876402869651042009-12-04T10:19:52.456-08:002009-12-04T10:19:52.456-08:00Susan, Gloves off? 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In addition to hedges, garden rooms to get lost in--sounds like perfection.<br /><br />Joyce, Yet another example of what a good Grandma you are! A challenge to get a 21st century little girl to read an Edwardian book, but what a heroine Mary is. I see that first ivy leaf and think "how pretty". Clearly, I need to adopt your policy."Daffodil Planter" Charlotte Germanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04892686231029047130noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5043852825601326628.post-2335705254337565272009-12-04T09:56:32.047-08:002009-12-04T09:56:32.047-08:00Susie, Try the book again on a blustery night this...Susie, Try the book again on a blustery night this winter. You want that whole Yorkshire moors atmosphere. Someday you'll tell us what $) means? Dolorous?<br /><br />Maranta, On the horrors of ivy, you reign supreme. I meant to link to your terror tale of horticulture-- <br />http://callusandchlorophyll.blogspot.com/2009/03/curse-of-hederahelix.html"Daffodil Planter" Charlotte Germanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04892686231029047130noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5043852825601326628.post-19403571494953330432009-12-04T09:28:35.155-08:002009-12-04T09:28:35.155-08:00OK, the gloves are coming off for this one. I love...OK, the gloves are coming off for this one. I loved The Secret Garden, too, but prefer its existence to remain safely in the pages of a book, thank you very much. The description of ivy creeping over a garden fence is lovely, but in California the reality is more like invasive nightmare and rat habitat, not to mention boring front yard landscaping.<br /><br />On the other hand, I do love phormiums!susan morrisonhttp://www.garden-chick.typepad.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5043852825601326628.post-38536961363292483982009-12-04T09:05:43.683-08:002009-12-04T09:05:43.683-08:00I have The Secret Garden on my iPhone and I keep e...I have The Secret Garden on my iPhone and I keep encouraging Kelly to read it. No luck yet! Ivy will have its way so my mantra is see a leaf, cut it off. I have no idea in whose garden the ivy that pokes through the fence spaces in our little space orginates.joyce in sfnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5043852825601326628.post-30713873563856211332009-12-04T03:16:59.387-08:002009-12-04T03:16:59.387-08:00The Secret Garden also had a huge pace in my heart...The Secret Garden also had a huge pace in my heart when I was a chid (and now). I am trying to divide my garden into rooms with hedges (would love to have walls, but they cost a bomb). I am hoping that eventually you will be abe to get lost in it.(and that is a lot of hope)Deborah at Kilbourne Grovehttp://kilbournegrove.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5043852825601326628.post-13311829590040369182009-12-04T00:42:17.193-08:002009-12-04T00:42:17.193-08:00Maybe we should just re-classify 'The Secret G...Maybe we should just re-classify 'The Secret Garden' as a captivating, but terrifying horror story. Anything shrouded in ivy gives me more chills than whatever Stephen King's got up his sleeves.Lukehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10914050674406896766noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5043852825601326628.post-64668901718039950032009-12-03T22:22:31.564-08:002009-12-03T22:22:31.564-08:00Oh, what memories. I have not read the Secret Gard...Oh, what memories. I have not read the Secret Garden in $) years! Hopefully you can't figure out what that means.....Ah well, maybe I need to find a copy & read it again.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5043852825601326628.post-1602630926348713702009-12-03T21:00:46.958-08:002009-12-03T21:00:46.958-08:00Sharon, LOL! Could it be attracted to your magneti...Sharon, LOL! Could it be attracted to your magnetic personality? <br /><br />Janet, Next thing you know I'll be speaking with a Yorkshire accent.<br /><br />Grace, That's the first garden proverb I've ever read. Thank you for that and for your solidarity. It's us or them.<br /><br />Welcome Connie! Well, if you insist, I guess I could read it again in a few months. Thank you for visiting!"Daffodil Planter" Charlotte Germanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04892686231029047130noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5043852825601326628.post-49640231154314955572009-12-03T20:01:19.026-08:002009-12-03T20:01:19.026-08:00Delightful, Char. The Secret Garden is for life!...Delightful, Char. The Secret Garden is for life! Connie PrattAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5043852825601326628.post-87487566066220444322009-12-03T19:17:14.918-08:002009-12-03T19:17:14.918-08:00Hi DP~~ A very well written post, as usual. As my ...Hi DP~~ A very well written post, as usual. As my eyes hopped from word to word, they kept wanting to rise above my laptop screen, out the glass door, onto the fence and the mass of IVY that, like yours, is in serious need of a haircut. Rather than yank the plants altogether I will cut them back hard this spring and let them climb again. I've found that a severe spring pruning seems to keep the whole bunch in check. You've heard the ivy proverb that goes: "The first year, it sleeps, the second year, it creeps, the third year, it leaps"?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5043852825601326628.post-26705424896024627162009-12-03T19:07:51.689-08:002009-12-03T19:07:51.689-08:00Ah, to be lured by a childhood fantasy.Ah, to be lured by a childhood fantasy.Janet, The Queen of Seafordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07876204203323750245noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5043852825601326628.post-7211265795296488452009-12-03T19:04:41.621-08:002009-12-03T19:04:41.621-08:00Every year I have to prune the ivy back from its i...Every year I have to prune the ivy back from its insidious, unerring march towards our house. How does it know the house is there? Why doesn't it grow in the other direction?<br />SharonAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com