tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6054541406616103006.post3955067735228287560..comments2023-12-19T12:44:00.913+02:00Comments on Growing Gardeners: Bad design kills - a gnome for the gnomesstoneware70http://www.blogger.com/profile/16291604258371562064noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6054541406616103006.post-55961905869355846452010-01-14T08:55:24.642+02:002010-01-14T08:55:24.642+02:00Thanks Chookie - I'll take that as a complimen...Thanks Chookie - I'll take that as a compliment! I'm sorry to hear that you guys have the same problem on your continent.<br />It drives me mad to see all the Northern Hemisphere garden advice books sold here in the South Africa!stoneware70https://www.blogger.com/profile/16291604258371562064noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6054541406616103006.post-54898831135654239302010-01-14T07:54:33.568+02:002010-01-14T07:54:33.568+02:00Ross! That's a terrible pun! Argh, the good ...Ross! That's a terrible pun! Argh, the good old northern hemisphere stuff sent south. It's surprising how many useless astronomy books are sold by bookshops which should know better...Chookiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07230973711859964063noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6054541406616103006.post-38799798231746605962009-12-18T11:55:32.793+02:002009-12-18T11:55:32.793+02:00Maybe less iron-y and more concrete-y?Maybe less iron-y and more concrete-y?stoneware70https://www.blogger.com/profile/16291604258371562064noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6054541406616103006.post-58797216497721949242009-12-18T10:32:30.365+02:002009-12-18T10:32:30.365+02:00For me instead of garden whimsy, they are more lik...For me instead of garden whimsy, they are more like garden irony. But like I said, I'm still about twenty years away from having one. I think they are more common in the U.K. countries than they are here.ryanhttp://drystonegarden.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6054541406616103006.post-27707879528400607712009-12-06T06:45:33.737+02:002009-12-06T06:45:33.737+02:00It's surprising how what we sometimes dislike ...It's surprising how what we sometimes dislike gets turned around - I've found the same with artificial grass, and Crotons.<br />Yes, I grudgingly admit there is a place for gnomes in the 'whimsy' category of garden objects, but it will be a very surprised gnome that finds me as its owner...stoneware70https://www.blogger.com/profile/16291604258371562064noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6054541406616103006.post-23410187002072385442009-12-06T05:04:01.071+02:002009-12-06T05:04:01.071+02:00Thinking through the implications of a northern su...Thinking through the implications of a northern sundial going to the southern hemisphere just made my head explode.<br />I find myself liking garden gnomes more and more as the years go by. Still don't have one, but at this rate I might have one in about twenty years.ryanhttp://drystonegarden.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6054541406616103006.post-90447461860794432832009-11-12T06:23:45.585+02:002009-11-12T06:23:45.585+02:00PS: left a comment on Blotanical for you ;)PS: left a comment on Blotanical for you ;)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6054541406616103006.post-40346564884516264032009-11-12T04:08:41.490+02:002009-11-12T04:08:41.490+02:00BRAVO! BRAVO! BRAVO!
Finding quality, (relatively)...BRAVO! BRAVO! BRAVO!<br />Finding quality, (relatively)affordable, appropriate and especially original garden ornaments and/or focal points is a great challenge. And the wide selection of ugly rubbish, from afro-kitch to euro-fuzzy... "irrational irritation" you call it. All that is irrational is that we're still protesting instead of succumbing to the soul-numbing mediocrity of it!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6054541406616103006.post-3344690548790055932009-11-07T18:38:39.767+02:002009-11-07T18:38:39.767+02:00I'm taking a sustainable design course right n...I'm taking a sustainable design course right now and one of the concepts I've been introduced to is stackable design - the idea that any design element added to the landscape has to perform more than one function. Sounds like the only thing the sundial is doing is adding a non-functioning aesthetic element.<br /><br />(But it still sounds better than a garden gnome to me.)susan morrisonhttp://www.garden-chick.typepad.comnoreply@blogger.com