tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post1368767513667701138..comments2024-03-23T12:38:46.260+00:00Comments on The History Girls: On putting words into the mouths of the departed, by Jane BorodaleMary Hoffmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06241989732624913706noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-89976093941745415612012-04-24T11:06:40.382+01:002012-04-24T11:06:40.382+01:00Your garden sounds really lovely, Leslie. Re hemlo...Your garden sounds really lovely, Leslie. Re hemlock, hmm, I hesitate to say anything more about it as it's so horribly toxic. I find the whole hemlock thing more and more confusing, for example the name water hemlock is often popularly applied to various species of water dropwort, and most are poisonous but to varying degrees, apparently, and there is an edible sort grown as a pot-herb in Asia. Mrs Grieve says that no British wild plant has been responsible for more fatal accidents than Oeanthe crocata. The Keatsian sort: 'a drowsy numbness pains/ My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk' or Conium was the execution method used in ancient Athens that famously did for Socrates. Dioscorides was using it medicinally in 1st century AD and it is still used today, though highly regulated, and also homeopathically. The more I look at these plants the more muddled I get... sorry, a rather longwinded reply.Jane Borodalehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04869783602793206715noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-77568423927515903112012-04-23T21:01:27.900+01:002012-04-23T21:01:27.900+01:00Fascinating! I have angelica sylvestris in my gard...Fascinating! I have angelica sylvestris in my garden, and also have sweet cicely and Alexanders, all edible. Carrots, parsley,lovage,chervil, coriander, etc, all part of a family that, as you so well remind us, can kill or feed. Are there medicinal uses of hemlock?Leslie Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15105465949970430998noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-12196686631536257782012-04-23T12:27:01.124+01:002012-04-23T12:27:01.124+01:00Welcome Jane! How good to read such a gloriously ...Welcome Jane! How good to read such a gloriously botanical post with such beautiful photographs. Banks of cow parsley and giant angelicas are among my favourite things, so I was fascinated to learn about the link with the under/otherworld. Your comment about 'openness to unspoken things beneath the surface' is in relation to historical fiction is intriguing.Linda B-Ahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01599899073420595717noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-53598043569748215942012-04-23T09:40:19.096+01:002012-04-23T09:40:19.096+01:00Thanks for these lovely, encouraging comments on m...Thanks for these lovely, encouraging comments on my first post. And hello - I'm really delighted to be joining such a great site with fantastic writers posting fascinating things - every day! Thanks for having me.Jane Borodalehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04869783602793206715noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-91945256987766232952012-04-22T18:03:48.400+01:002012-04-22T18:03:48.400+01:00Yes, tubes to the Underworld sound good. Very spoo...Yes, tubes to the Underworld sound good. Very spooky indeed. And your novel sounds really intriguing. V. good post!adelehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15826710558292792068noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-91090753178394851792012-04-22T11:06:21.150+01:002012-04-22T11:06:21.150+01:00Wonderful! Especially those hollow tubes to the un...Wonderful! Especially those hollow tubes to the underworld. *shiver*Stroppy Authorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16560035800075465845noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-71712710579953026822012-04-22T08:52:50.796+01:002012-04-22T08:52:50.796+01:00Yes, what a riveting post! Thankyou!Yes, what a riveting post! Thankyou!Katherine Langrishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12529700103932422873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-63677935645420538422012-04-22T08:18:18.647+01:002012-04-22T08:18:18.647+01:00I love this post. Pouring oneself down a narrow ho...I love this post. Pouring oneself down a narrow hollow stem to the underworld... what a fantastic image!H.M. Castorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08716936870601385683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-27053991335618772772012-04-22T02:03:11.920+01:002012-04-22T02:03:11.920+01:00A beautiful post, Jane. I love your use of all tho...A beautiful post, Jane. I love your use of all those plant names, and found myself compelled to read them aloud. And those 'fat, crisp, candiable stems'...<br /><br />Valerie Hill's photographs are wonderful too. Thank you so much for sharing.alberridgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15986443240923520466noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-37282873824396646942012-04-22T01:35:06.729+01:002012-04-22T01:35:06.729+01:00Utterly brilliant post...the photographs and metap...Utterly brilliant post...the photographs and metaphors, oh my!!! It's also a public service in regard to knowing the plant world. I must go search out her book...Intriguing.Ms.https://www.blogger.com/profile/09479767121319709878noreply@blogger.com