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| This creeping plant has been miserable in my shady border, limping along from one year to the next - never having the decency to actually die, it hangs on accusingly, palely loitering and reminding me of failure. Grrrrr, suggestions? Does it ever look fulsome? Give me a clue. |
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- Posted by ken_adrian z5 (My Page) on Thu, Apr 26, 12 at 8:57
| never having the decency to actually die, it hangs on accusingly, palely loitering and reminding me of failure. ==>> thats hilarious ... lol .. but the issue is.. why do you torture yourself with it ... GET RID OF IT ... and that is my clue of the day ... what??? you can think of nothing else to fill the void in your empty life [i mean the garden].. but would prefer to be reminded of failure???? my God.. dig it up.. throw it around the yard.. with malice and aforethought.. [the definition of murder] .. and replant it in full sun.. and give it 50 days.. to die or thrive ... sometimes they just need a lesson on who is in charge of this garden ... and on day 51.. should it not perk up .... spray it with roundup .. jump on it.. wrap it in plastic .. burn it.. and put it in the garbage bin for burial at the local landfill.. if it hasnt gotten its act together ... and then provide us with more poetry.. of how much better you feel.. having been done with it ... lol .. reminding me of failure.. spot on .. i will be chuckling about that all week ... ken |
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| Campanula, I have exactly the same problem with some Vinca minor varieties(the double and variegated ones). LOL |
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| Campanula -- you have such an endearing way with words - you could consider taking up writing if gardening gets too stressful!!! (you and ken should both write gardening blogs!) I'm not familiar with that plant and I'm not on a mission to find any! Sounds like bad news to me! Jan |
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| Not just a way with words. Also familiarity with the works of Keats. Would a yellow Geum or Potentilla provide an acceptable substitute to your Waldsteinia sans merci? |
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| oh Flora - how to say this....geum has also been something of a bete noire too. For sure, I can manage the romping great chiloense hybrids....but it is the daintily elegant little G.rivale types which have stolen away my heart (and assaulted my wallet). Why can I not be satisfied with garden workhorses? Nope, it is the horticultural Camilles (one pale hand on the coverlet and all that) that gets my blood pressure rising (and rising even more when confronted with yet another empty space or sickly dying mess of plantage). But hey, potentillas, surely I can keep them alive? Well no, even just a hint of slacking off on the watering (I have a pot garden, it can be hell) and they are quite literally, toast. As for a way with words, well, I have been amusing myself with Ken's snippy and acute comments - I guess it really is time to get the spade out. |
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| campanula -- please keep posting. I'm enchanted. I could read all day. Jan |
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