This is bugging me so much I actually was dreaming about it, so I hope you can help. I still can’t figure out on which blog I read about the weeding poppies rule (see previous post). I think it is the same blog that posted about Campanula rapunculoides, the Roving (to put it mildly) Bellflower. So can anyone tell me which gardener blogged about the Roving Bellflower in the past couple of months? They had photos of the roots and said they had to get it out of their rock walls.
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There is something about a garden that brings out a fiercely possessive streak in the best of us. All our triumphs, to be really satisfying, must stem from our own individual efforts; and we look with a cold eye upon innovations for which we are not personally responsible. Even a suggestion, however tactfully introduced, is not always taken in good part. . . . We gardeners should not be blamed for this defensive attitude, which is based on the intense interest we take in our work. Without it, gardening would become an undertaking so laborious, so frustrating, so maddening, that there would soon be no gardens at all. As with all truly creative pursuits, the appeal is to the mind and to the heart, rather than to the pocket; and unless we can convince ourselves, beyond any doubt, that the credit is ours, and ours alone, we are like a singer listening to the applause for a song that someone else has sung.
Reginald Arkell
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Well, Zoey, I’m glad to hear I wasn’t imagining things. I had already been to your blog at least twice looking for that post, and couldn’t find it. I just went back again and scrolled through Feb, Mar, Apr, May, Jun, and July of this year and still didn’t find it! So do you think you could post the permalink to that post? It doesn’t matter if you didn’t write about the poppies. It is quite possible that I just read the two posts in the same surfing session and associated them in my mind.
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Hi Kathy, I think you may be talking about me. I did blog about the creeping bellflower and had pics of the roots growing under the rocks. I don’t believe I was the one with the weeding poppies rule…if I was, I don’t remember it!