tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1328021870793697876.post5786694810795581731..comments2024-03-24T06:15:42.391-07:00Comments on Gardening with Bob Dylan: Rue The Day - I Don't Believe You (She Acts Like We Have Never Met)Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02791751421698536323noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1328021870793697876.post-24489022735038890862012-12-11T00:09:46.068-08:002012-12-11T00:09:46.068-08:00Hi Elizabeth - thanks for your thoughts, as ever, ...Hi Elizabeth - thanks for your thoughts, as ever, you go to the heart of the gardening matters. The trick now seems to be that look of "what, this old thing, I just flung it on", all sorts of ways of getting it, but like when you get dressed, the hardest thing to pull off if it doesn't come naturally.<br /><br />Still I agree that nothing should damage our own genuine pleasure and satisfaction, whether it's best to ignore change or meet it, I'm not sure.<br /><br /> I think the problem is that what is in our own heads is never uninfluenced by what everyone is loving. We can't help going along - even if you don't visit gardens it gets in your head simply because it looks right. So I don't talk about Now stuff because I slavishly wish to follow it, it's just wanting to understand what looks good, how it's done etc. Sorting out a cluttered head is a good chunk of gardening activity I think.<br /><br /> Mind you, I always try for something easy in the end, my own besetting sin. And I agree with you, now I've got a view myself, that the challenges are enormous, for some reason I feel I can only plant flat tiny little things, weird but powerful - I'll have to find a way out of that. <br /><br />As for the rue, if you get another, try the pruning, Marchish. I don't let it flower either, that keeps it young.<br />x Jane Janehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02791751421698536323noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1328021870793697876.post-47126802117361025022012-12-10T11:31:51.183-08:002012-12-10T11:31:51.183-08:00Mmm, where to start? I had rue in the kitchen gar...Mmm, where to start? I had rue in the kitchen garden but dug it up in an angry fit one day when I got fed up of its woody base and sprawly habit. I have often regretted that one...<br />I am intrigued by what you say about things being "now". I am very aware of the way we seem to have banished shrubs and evergreens (unless in the form of box balls) from our gardens in favour of grasses and wildflower meadows and prairie perennials. Yet the planting I have done here in my inadequate attempts to create some kind of garden out of an acre of sloping field with a fantastic view (which will always be more stunning than anything I can plant) which has given me most pleasure is the planting of shrubs and trees and hedges. One of the reasons I do very little garden visiting is that it clutters up my head with what others are doing and what is "now". I find it hard enough to hold onto my shaky sense of what I am trying to do without visions of prairie planting and the olympic park elbowing it out.Elizabeth Musgravehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09473705107636868753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1328021870793697876.post-55075301292496313022012-12-06T05:14:34.503-08:002012-12-06T05:14:34.503-08:00Sorry about the typeface change in this post, can&...Sorry about the typeface change in this post, can't seem to eliminate it, but it has no meaning.Janehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02791751421698536323noreply@blogger.com