tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5223294603002782762.post7761644961694790046..comments2024-03-24T06:10:25.358-07:00Comments on Noel's Garden Blog: The Great Gardening Challenge is to talk sense Noel Kingsburyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09443137231998907024noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5223294603002782762.post-2776500317823131022007-11-04T06:52:00.000-08:002007-11-04T06:52:00.000-08:00I think gnomes are folk tale like creatures who li...I think gnomes are folk tale like creatures who live/ed in forests and woods and who are very green fingers-types; they seem automatically to conjure up images of grassy gardenny forest clearings. Probably the people who put these fun/ny little creatures in their gardens are hoping they'll do the the gardenning for them, somehow. Or as wishful or wistful guard/s looking after the flowerbeds but at a level below the flower-line, not towering above them, like a statue(of Gandhi) would.Tamdinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10821004501809545103noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5223294603002782762.post-84210102249570381602007-11-03T03:51:00.000-07:002007-11-03T03:51:00.000-07:00Hells bells “pretentious tosh”/‘art bollocks’ and ...Hells bells “pretentious tosh”/‘art bollocks’ and gnomes in one wee story!<BR/>I'm for all of the above plus a dollop of bad taste and bucket (bouquet)of posies!<BR/>Coming from Australia where the standard good taste (and bad) garden mimics the cliche known as the English garden I am more than happy to support anything that might be just left of the compost brigade..lets have gnomes's in droves and groves of gnomes!<BR/>William Martin<BR/>www.wigandia.comWigandiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17224014230886783615noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5223294603002782762.post-7558025144975434262007-10-20T11:37:00.000-07:002007-10-20T11:37:00.000-07:00Gnomes:Most people put Gnomes in their garden for ...Gnomes:<BR/>Most people put Gnomes in their garden for a bit of "fun". They find gnomes amusing. Sometimes they get into Gnomes in a big way and they have collections of them - in the front garden usually. They think this is great fun and they enjoy thinking that passers by think they are fun - and indeed, most passers by do think they are fun (though the sophisticated passer by also think that they are naff. Occasionally very sophistiacted people are being ironic when they put a gnome in their garden. I think Mary Keen has one. Very ironic. That's waht people are doing. It ain't that complicated.<BR/><BR/>Charles HawesCharles Haweshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11307918475735593476noreply@blogger.com