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    "It Was The Sweetest, Most Mysterious-Looking Place Any One Could Imagine"

    Little House On The Prairie: From Page To Stage

    The Secret Garden: Still No Idea What a Missel Thrush Is
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    Image of A Small Turnip A Small Turnip
    05/02/09

    In reply to "It Was The Sweetest, Most Mysterious-Looking Place Any One Could Imagine"
    @Pocahaunted: Croydon apart, I am absolutely with you on this. In fact, I'm whimsically obstinate enough to take your theory one step further and say that if it's not on the Tube, it's not really London.


    Fuck those buses. Fuck BoJo. And fuck Croydon. There, I said it. Commence your rotten tomato throwing.


    @Skinny lips, killer lashes: Do come join the London Jezzies! It's such a lovely, gentle, funny group. And I promise I'm not actually hateful about Croydon in person. ;-)

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    Image of BAngieB BAngieB
    05/02/09

    In reply to "It Was The Sweetest, Most Mysterious-Looking Place Any One Could Imagine"
    Yeah, I've got your secret garden, Hortese..right here!
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    Image of casi nadie (loves MCC forever) casi nadie (loves MCC forever)
    05/02/09

    In reply to "It Was The Sweetest, Most Mysterious-Looking Place Any One Could Imagine"
    You think that's a pretty garden? Check out this one.


    and again.


    Or this mysterious, impressive wonder.



    Or the combination of mystery AND garden.

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    Image of SomeAuthorGirl SomeAuthorGirl
    05/02/09

    @o português é muito sexy: That is beautiful, where is that??
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    Image of casi nadie (loves MCC forever) casi nadie (loves MCC forever)
    05/02/09

    @SomeAuthorGirl: The first two are in the botanical gardens in St. Louis, the third is at my university, the last is in Tlaxcala, Mexico.
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    Image of Mafalda para Presidente Mafalda para Presidente
    05/02/09

    In reply to "It Was The Sweetest, Most Mysterious-Looking Place Any One Could Imagine"
    Now, THAT is what I want my garden to look like. I just need a few thousand dollars worth of landscaping and I'm all set.
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    Image of brendastarlet is on it brendastarlet is on it
    05/02/09

    In reply to "It Was The Sweetest, Most Mysterious-Looking Place Any One Could Imagine"
    Wisteria, dear Jezzies, is prettier to look at than it is to have in a garden. It is very invasive, and even after you cut it back, it springs up again. It also swells to an enormous size. We called mine "Cousin It."


    So better to observe than grow yourself.

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    Image of Ms. Crankypants Ms. Crankypants
    05/02/09

    @brendastarlet is on it: I absolutely love Wisteria, but you're right it's invasive, but this can be good in some circumstances. My parents have it growing over their deck which makes a beautiful canopy & creates lovely shade.
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    Image of Tart of Darkness Tart of Darkness
    05/02/09

    @brendastarlet is on it: @Ms. Crankypants is done Law School:

    You are soooooo right, both of you! I've always wanted Wisteria and it is pretty common in our area although not where I grew up. So I went and bought a couple of plants and the nurseryman seemed really amused by all the questions I had about how to care for them. Basically the care instructions are: Do not expose to direct radiation from enriched plutonium. (Or they will grow even bigger!)


    One problem I do have with mine is that of the two (they frame out livingroom window so that I don't need a canopy) the one that used to flower the most died at the main stem. It does have offshoots that are alive, though. The one that flowered the least is more vigorous now and actually put on a good show for the first time this year. It is also crawling up into my birch trees. Sigh.

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    Image of Pocahaunted Pocahaunted
    05/02/09

    In reply to "It Was The Sweetest, Most Mysterious-Looking Place Any One Could Imagine"
    I'm from the school of thought that says anything not on the tube line or on a TFL bus route is NOT LONDON.


    Kingston? Sorry posh boy in da club, NOT LONDON. Surrey? NOT LONDON. Guilford? NOT LONDON.


    Islington? London. Hackney? London. Shoreditch? London. Hampton Court? NOT LONDON.

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    Image of gherkinfiend gherkinfiend
    05/02/09

    @Pocahaunted: But by that reasoning Croydon is still London, yet it has a non London postcode and is really in Surrey...


    This is my pet peeve apparently!

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    Image of Skinny lips, killer lashes Skinny lips, killer lashes
    05/02/09

    @Pocahaunted:

    I don't understand this. Croydon is considered a London borough, we have the 020 8 phone number but we don't have a London type post code.
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    Image of Pocahaunted Pocahaunted
    05/02/09

    @gherkinfiend: But...but...Croydon is not London?!

    This damages my theory so much. DAMN YOU CROYDON. Yet another way you demonstrably suck.
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    Image of Pocahaunted Pocahaunted
    05/02/09

    @Skinny lips, killer lashes: Oops, didn't mean to say the place you live sucks. Don't be offended, I spent a good portion of my childhood in Harrow...
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    Image of gherkinfiend gherkinfiend
    05/02/09

    @Pocahaunted: Ahhh, Croydon...the inconvenient borough.


    @Skinny lips, killer lashes: are you based in Croydon? I don't want to say anything offensive about it til I've checked!

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    Image of Skinny lips, killer lashes Skinny lips, killer lashes
    05/02/09

    @gherkinfiend: @Pocahaunted:


    Don't worry. I'm planning on moving out of Croydon as soon as I can!

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    Image of gherkinfiend gherkinfiend
    05/02/09

    @Skinny lips, killer lashes: Come join us in the London Jezebels Facebook group...


    [www.facebook.com]

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    Image of Skinny lips, killer lashes Skinny lips, killer lashes
    05/02/09

    @gherkinfiend: I be the one whose surname is Sparkles!.
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    Image of nessalicious nessalicious
    05/02/09

    @Pocahaunted: Hackney and Shoreditch are on TFL bus routes, and Shoreditch has an (albeit closed) tube stop.


    :D

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    05/02/09

    @nessalicious: WAIT I AM AN IDIOT. I shall go back to sleep now.
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    Image of gherkinfiend gherkinfiend
    05/02/09

    @Skinny lips, killer lashes: Excellent!
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    Image of AtomiClash: humanitarian misanthrope AtomiClash: humanitarian misanthrope
    05/02/09

    @Pocahaunted: you make me miss the East End. When I come back to visit London, you London Jezebels better be up for a drink!
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    Image of ihateyourescalade ihateyourescalade
    05/02/09

    In reply to "It Was The Sweetest, Most Mysterious-Looking Place Any One Could Imagine"
    Please, Jezebel, stop publishing photos of my house.
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    Image of hkcd hkcd
    05/02/09

    @ihateyourescalade: Agreed. Wait, are you the person that's been living in my cellar?
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    Image of Aesop's Foibles. YES. Aesop's Foibles. YES.
    05/02/09

    In reply to "It Was The Sweetest, Most Mysterious-Looking Place Any One Could Imagine"
    I wish my back yard looked something like this. But NOOO. It has spotty grass, studded here and there with gigantic dawg turds. It also features not one, but TWO old blue buckets brimming with fossilized dawg turds. If I wasn't so broke, I'd get out there and plant some stuff. Good-smelling flowers and lavender and whatnot. Anything to mask the stink of dawg-potty.
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    Image of Tart of Darkness Tart of Darkness
    05/02/09

    @..now it's just Aesop's Foibles.: I had the same problem with one area of my sort of back yard (our house is oriented oddly so we have two side yards instead of one real backyard.) We restricted the dogs to a concrete area with fencing and then put plastic down and killed all the weeds in the former "lawn". We raked it up a little bit and then went to the hardware store and bought five or six packets of different kinds of plant seeds. A couple of them were mixed varieties that are like "Wildflower Mix" but we also made sure to throw in some Nasturtium seeds. Some of just about everything came up and the Nasturtiums are going hog wild.


    Growing things eventually covers up the dog poop and urine odor as long as you don't let the dogs back into that area.


    For a potty place for the dogs, you can buy a four sided chain link kennel for about $100 and put a thick layer of sand and/or gravel inside of it. Put some of the fresher old poop in there and teach the dogs to use that as their poop spot. Be sure and clean up once a day so that it doesn't get out of hand AND so that they have a clean enough place that they don't have to start using a different place instead.


    You'll be surprised at how easily they learn to poop in their special area. Bitches can also be taught to confine their urination to that area although dogs still tend to mark anyway.

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    Image of sympathyforthebasementcat sympathyforthebasementcat
    05/02/09

    In reply to "It Was The Sweetest, Most Mysterious-Looking Place Any One Could Imagine"
    Ok, London Jezzies. Who wants to do an apartment swap for a bit? Come on, Washington, DC. You can stalk Obama...
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    Image of Rooo sez BISH PLZ Rooo sez BISH PLZ
    05/02/09

    @sympathyforthedevil: I really think DC is underrated in the spring/summer for teh sexay. Cherry blossoms? Adams Morgan? Early brunch at Eastern Market? Mmmmmm.


    However, I am not so cool as to have a London swap to offer; just NYC. (Although we do have Brazilian street parties, the best food, the PR Day Parade, and the US Open come Labor Day.)

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    Image of queenieinmanhattan queenieinmanhattan
    05/02/09

    In reply to "It Was The Sweetest, Most Mysterious-Looking Place Any One Could Imagine"
    Hortense, I didn't think I could love you any more than I already do, but then you pulled out The Secret Garden.


    You ROCK!

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    Image of brendastarlet is on it brendastarlet is on it
    05/02/09

    @queenieinmanhattan: love this! I just hired a gardener who looks like Ben Weatherstaff.
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    Image of Eric Northman is mine Eric Northman is mine
    05/02/09

    In reply to "It Was The Sweetest, Most Mysterious-Looking Place Any One Could Imagine"
    awww i love when i see kids dressed like kids. That hat is adorable
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    Image of Kali Mama Kali Mama
    05/02/09

    In reply to "It Was The Sweetest, Most Mysterious-Looking Place Any One Could Imagine"
    Is it me or does that pic look photoshopped to hell?

    The lighting on the girl doesn't match the lighting in the garden and neither match the wall with the wysteria.
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    Image of casi nadie (loves MCC forever) casi nadie (loves MCC forever)
    05/02/09

    @Kali Mama: Outside photos play havoc with lighting. If the photographer was focusing properly on the girl, she'd be lit while the wisteria/wall was darker. The garden would be much brighter and not as crisp/clear. This appears to be what has happened here.
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    Image of chinaplate chinaplate
    05/02/09

    In reply to "It Was The Sweetest, Most Mysterious-Looking Place Any One Could Imagine"
    Ha, absolutely nothing compared to Oxford in the summer. Nothing.
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    Image of save jinger save jinger
    05/02/09

    @chinaplate: I spent a lovely summer in Oxford, and I miss it terribly.
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    Image of misspell misspell
    05/02/09

    @chinaplate: Spring has also transformed Norfolk into an amazing wonderland - everything smells so nice. But the bugs - oh, the bugs.
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    Image of haguenite haguenite
    05/02/09

    In reply to "It Was The Sweetest, Most Mysterious-Looking Place Any One Could Imagine"
    You know, The Secret Garden is one of the few books I can love without caring one iota for the protagonists.


    Also, only a few more weeks until I go to London YAY!

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    Image of NellMood NellMood
    05/02/09

    In reply to "It Was The Sweetest, Most Mysterious-Looking Place Any One Could Imagine"
    Wow, gorgeous. I love wisteria.
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