Comments on: In praise of common plants http://www.thistlebrook.com.au/in-praise-of-common-plants/ Everybody needs beauty as well as bread. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 08:15:45 +1100 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 By: Justin Russell http://www.thistlebrook.com.au/in-praise-of-common-plants/comment-page-1/#comment-171 Justin Russell Tue, 09 Feb 2010 01:56:38 +0000 http://www.thistlebrook.com.au/?p=630#comment-171 I too am a fan of pansies, especially in shades of inky blue and wine red. Couldn't imagine winter at Thistlebrook without them. Places of joy, not deja vu is very good advice indeed. Thanks for the comment. Justin I too am a fan of pansies, especially in shades of inky blue and wine red. Couldn’t imagine winter at Thistlebrook without them.

Places of joy, not deja vu is very good advice indeed. Thanks for the comment.

Justin

]]> By: Kate http://www.thistlebrook.com.au/in-praise-of-common-plants/comment-page-1/#comment-170 Kate Tue, 09 Feb 2010 01:26:56 +0000 http://www.thistlebrook.com.au/?p=630#comment-170 Personally, I will admit to hating agapanthi but will admit that they are at their best lining a driveway. However, that's down to personal preference, and not out of line with your message, I think. I shouldn't plant them in my garden, since I don't like them, no matter how fashionable they are. I will always have pansies, on the other hand, no matter how UNFASHIONABLE, because I love their smiling faces. Experimentataion with new things is good, plodding solidly down the path of what you 'should' plant and what is 'in', is not. I want my garden - and my friend's - to be places of joy, not deja vu! Personally, I will admit to hating agapanthi but will admit that they are at their best lining a driveway.

However, that’s down to personal preference, and not out of line with your message, I think. I shouldn’t plant them in my garden, since I don’t like them, no matter how fashionable they are. I will always have pansies, on the other hand, no matter how UNFASHIONABLE, because I love their smiling faces.

Experimentataion with new things is good, plodding solidly down the path of what you ‘should’ plant and what is ‘in’, is not. I want my garden – and my friend’s – to be places of joy, not deja vu!

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