tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6849167564811493528.post1437484737895614926..comments2024-01-31T04:09:28.704+00:00Comments on SILVERTREEDAZE: DOUBLE BUMROSESPlant Mad Nigehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01051715161395516677noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6849167564811493528.post-77180980911021214132012-03-22T15:27:07.397+00:002012-03-22T15:27:07.397+00:00Bumroses indeed. Those garish primulas are absolut...Bumroses indeed. Those garish primulas are absolutely hideous. We inherited lots of the wild variety growing here, which I'm very happy about, and I've been escorting them around the garden where I can, to help them colonise further. A good auricula I can admire, though I'm not moved to own any yet, but I don't think those primroses have any saving graces!<br /><br />I read the Kevin book, but haven't seen the film. Ashamed to say I can't quite recall my reaction to the book now, so it can't have been very strong. I do have a lousy memory though - already! I'll probably have dementia by the time I'm 40.<br /><br />Sarahillwardshttp://hillwards.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6849167564811493528.post-32573373325450001802012-03-12T17:57:16.674+00:002012-03-12T17:57:16.674+00:00Thanks for all the comments. I rather dementedly ...Thanks for all the comments. I rather dementedly said that Saint Pat's was past - which it was in my head, as I'd just written my copy for 17th March.<br /><br />Arabella - I think you need to bend your mind away from bee's fat bottoms because whenever you mention bees, I'm reminded of those little Beardibum fairy creatures that you're inclined to animate with hilarious results.<br /><br />Jane and Constant G - thanks so much for the enlightening reaction and discussion on LS's Kevin novel and the film. <br /><br />Mark D - We're not nearly posh enough to drive bronze tool, in these parts, but I take the point. <br /><br />James, disregarding Edward 2's bottom, to anyone who has a manufactured dibber, rather than a smoothed off, broken spade handle, all I can say is 'Theres Posh!' <br /><br />And to all who responded to the bumroses - my thanks. <br /><br />gz - do you dislike auriculas, then? Cos i grow a few border varieties which I adore, partly because of the flower shapes and strange colours - provided they're clean, not muddy - and, above all, for the wondeful, knockout fragrance.Plant Mad Nigehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01051715161395516677noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6849167564811493528.post-57536727908320439352012-03-12T15:17:51.557+00:002012-03-12T15:17:51.557+00:00I used to love snapdragons purely to see a bee'...I used to love snapdragons purely to see a bee's fat bottom sticking out of the flower shimmying about. Less so when we moved to the current garden where they had self-seeded everywhere and not the nicest colours either - but not as bad as the bumrosesArabella Sockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10936438011119860497noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6849167564811493528.post-86740019998703034112012-03-11T22:40:38.750+00:002012-03-11T22:40:38.750+00:00You know those muddy ones, you often see them wher...You know those muddy ones, you often see them where some fancy primrose pollen got sprinkled in amongst the proper ordinary ones - woodland edges to suburban gardens and such. It seems a strong gene, hangs about and will sometimes see off the pale yellow ones leaving you with what I can only call murrey. Hoick 'em out - that's what I say, but no-one listens, imagining them to be a bit special. No they're just nasty.<br /><br />Anyway, re Kevin, my view is that the book is fantastic, a true modern classic, haven't seen the film. I never thought the book was about bad mothering, the whole thing seems to me to be about the risks of being human, we all have to recognise and somehow live with the evil in the world. Dealing with it is the issue and where the difficulties lie for the characters in the book. I saw the book as a complex metaphor and honestly believe the book allows for such a reading, therefore NOT moral poison, not at all.<br /><br />I heard Lionel Shriver talking about the book and it seemed some of it was inspired by her experience of a difficult brother. She expressed no animus, only pity for her mother.Janehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02791751421698536323noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6849167564811493528.post-82227971418127158402012-03-10T19:16:16.552+00:002012-03-10T19:16:16.552+00:00I've just had a bumrose flower in my garden wh...I've just had a bumrose flower in my garden which I didn't realise was there until it produced its dirty pink blooms. Just nearby on the bank were the most exquisite little wild primroses: proof, if proof were needed, that you can't 'improve' on perfection.<br /><br />The bumrose is now on its way to forming compost: much more useful.<br /><br />I had a very strong reaction to 'We Need To Talk About...' - hated it, I'm afraid. I read the book and didn't (and won't) see the film: I had Tilda Swinton's interpretation of the story and it made me furious that Lionel Shriver could write such a terrible and facile interpretation of why troubled young children kill. <br /><br />It would have been far more insightful if she had tackled the question of whether someone can be born evil (or not). As it was, it was a condemnation of all mothers who have not bonded with their babies - many of whom go on to form perfectly loving relationships with them later in life. I just pray that no poor mother of one of the now several children who have sprayed their local school with bullets ever reads it. Unfortunately I suspect some of them already have.<br /><br />But rant over: personally if I were you I'd put down the book right now, which is not something I often advise where books are concerned. But it really is moral poison. It is telling that Lionel Shriver does not have children: I think if she had kids of her own her understanding of the subject would have been more profound.<br /><br />Rant really over now - and I've never used a copper (or bronze) trowel: after James and Mark's comments I might have a go though :DThe Constant Gardenerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01219672153177538912noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6849167564811493528.post-26280887757683357742012-03-09T21:32:09.213+00:002012-03-09T21:32:09.213+00:00Thoe trowels are marvellous to use - thats all the...Thoe trowels are marvellous to use - thats all they should say on them, rather than whether they affect the libido of the local mollusc life. <br /><br />That weatherman Dan thingy is actually quite spooky..the one who ends with 'thats the weather...*pause* *scary face*..for noooow'MarkDhttp://www.otterfarm.co.uknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6849167564811493528.post-92226895962941760162012-03-09T19:19:34.538+00:002012-03-09T19:19:34.538+00:00I have two bronze trowels: both gifts from kind pe...I have two bronze trowels: both gifts from kind people.<br /><br />They are lovely to handle (especially the thin pointy one) although the idea behind them - that soil tilled by bronze will magically become more fertile and molluscs will run screaming is a little hard to believe.<br /><br />I also have a copper dibber which is very sharp and always reminds me, and please forgive my crudeness especially on such an august blog as this, of the unsavoury death of Edward II (alleged).JamesA-Shttp://www.blackpitts.co.uk/blognoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6849167564811493528.post-2616209278031667632012-03-09T08:39:26.836+00:002012-03-09T08:39:26.836+00:00Bum all the way. Primrose horrors, but am sure we&...Bum all the way. Primrose horrors, but am sure we'll sadly see them lining up somewhere in council carpet bedding. I can't help but wonder who could possibly want a blue primrose or worse still, who decided growing one was a good idea?Oxonian Gardenerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12818121556169914975noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6849167564811493528.post-86547803747654911822012-03-09T08:00:05.965+00:002012-03-09T08:00:05.965+00:00I was being lazy (should have grown them from seed...I was being lazy (should have grown them from seed), but last week I tried to buy native primroses from our local nurseries of which there are many. Zilch - no demand apparently, but a plethora of the coloured flamenco dress types which, I agree, are an abomination. I do have a soft spot for "Francesca" however, which is very muted in colour although difficult to place anywhere in the garden.<br /><br />Don't knock the bronze tools, we have one of "Implementations" Nunki weeders which is a dream to use. Admittedly, a bronze trowel is rather more of an extravaganceSimon Shttp://woodmansterne.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6849167564811493528.post-50602990543522872692012-03-08T19:18:37.284+00:002012-03-08T19:18:37.284+00:00Those truly are horrendous primroses. It's as ...Those truly are horrendous primroses. It's as if someone went through a cupboard of food colourings from the 1970s thinking that brighter is better. That nasty blue/purple colour - it's definitely intentional? Maybe the plant breeder who selected it doesn't realise he's colour blind? (apologies for my assumption the plant breeder is a he... but as it's International Womens Day I can hardly lay the blame at the door of us girls).suburban veg gardenerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08546041205509607893noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6849167564811493528.post-41175085707330197772012-03-08T15:37:27.149+00:002012-03-08T15:37:27.149+00:00I agree about the Primroses...but then look at Aur...I agree about the Primroses...but then look at Auriculas..<br /><br />Bronze tools...very Celtic!! I wonder if they are strong enough?<br /><br />Read the book in preference every time- otherwise you are generally getting someone else's interpretation of the originalgzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08034777779347889773noreply@blogger.com