Been bookmarking all the dramas I’ve watched to add to my “favorites” here. Had not logged onto Viki in a while, and my old drama lists there are gone because they redid the account side.😱
That moment when you realize your response has entered the Pedantic Dome, look around at the wider woes of the world, and decide…”Nope, not today,” then promptly delete the post. 😅
Confession of a Kdrama addict that no one asked for: I’ve learned more Korean words, idioms and phrases from historicals than modern ones. (FWIW: both tradition and fusion.)
I wanted to give You Are My Spring a chance-I like the FL, but have bad memories of the ML in another show as the jerk analyst/doctor. Plus too much creepy early on for me right now.😔
I honestly can’t remember at what point I simply developed a low threshold for early on creepy/overly murderly plots. I do remember it killed any chance I had of even starting the one show with the subway muderer which I can’t even recall the name of at the moment. 🤔 Maybe it was Criminal Minds that was the killing straw there? So many good actors in that show that I stuck it out to watch the whole thing. I just remember a whole lotta shows around then suddenly had weird dark twists that made me unhappy, even Welcome/Secret Boy had a creepy turn for Pete’s sake!
The murder/mystery part in YAMS is crucial for the development of the story especially the development of the relationship between the leads. It’s too nerve-racking for me for binging the show though others might disagree with this. But anyway, I strongly recommend watching any show when you feel like it. 🙂
Just noticed my beanie level, and now I\’m wondering if anyone that ever travels to Korea goes to the places that rent costumes ever dresses as a eunuch in drag. 🤔
Every time I watch a show that has modern day folks renting costumes, I keep thinking of this thread. Recently, it was while watching Scripting Your Destiny. 🖋️
Thought I took a picture when the flowers had developed the seeds, but can’t find it. So here’s a picture of what lily of the valley seeds look like. They do brown from drying over time.
Tonight I’m planting seeds that germinated in water baths into soil filled paper containers, starting with these peas. (Some day…I will find time to add all the shows missing from my list here. 🤪)
I finally took some follow-up photos of the lilies of the valley today. I was actually quite wrong about the size of the ones I have, so I’m glad I brought out a yard stick today! More new shoots too.
I went to a friend’s house the other day, which they bought last year. The LoV in one bed had spread into their lawn as well as a bit over their property line where they border on a sloped woody area. A lot of the vegetation in the garden overall hadn’t been minded in a while, so there’s a lot of work to do there, as we found when we bought our home here. I’ll be helping her thin them out later this week, as they get very invasive here and can take over woodland areas, suppressing native plants. That’s why I put ours where they are–it’s hemmed in by the house foundation on one side, and the asphalt from the driveway on the other 3.
That was smart of you 👍🏼 Mine was contained by concrete on three sides and now decided to run down the remaining length of the bed 😤, crowding out so many bee-friendly perennials. I look at my little garden bed and have to laugh at how much money has been spent trying to make it a bee oasis and how many monarda I’ve managed to kill.
One thing I didn’t realize about deadheading the monarda as much as I was made them over clump below ground and strangled themselves because I forgot you’re also supposed to divided them. 😳
Keeping them a bit thinned for air circulation to prevent powdery mildew helps too, especially if they are in partial shade. You can combine 1T of baking soda w/ water in a standard spray bottle and use it on the leaves if they get the mildew despite thinning during a rainy/damp year. I use the same mix when our pumpkin leaves get it too.
My worst garden thug yet best chop and drop is burdock. I’ve learned to use it to protect late growers so weeds don’t have much of a chance to start (like our strawberries we have between the fence and driveway), then chop the leaves back when those later plants are good and ready for some full sun time. I also keep it less thuggish now that I know to clip any seeds that start to form on them which I toss in our “baking bin” (metal ash can we put any vigorous weed seeds in for a year so the sun literally bakes them to death, and then they’re safe to compost).
I am still fairly horrible about starting flowers from seeds. We were lucky in that we “inherited” a lot of flowering perennials/self seeding annuals of various types when we bought our house–the original owners were definitely gardeners. 😄
My monarda grow a little the first year and then just don’t come back ☹️ Sadly, my thumb is not a green one. Thanks for the powdery mildew recipe, I just sprayed my newest (attempts at) monarda with copper fungicide because they literally came from the store and had PM three days later. My best plant by far this Spring is a 3 ft tall Squaw Weed that the birds kindly planted for me!
@bbstl I’m going to try adding more monarda this year now that I know what I did wrong. Sometimes it takes a few days of spray to knock down the PM, depending on weather.
It took a while after we moved here before I figured out which local nurseries were worthwhile buying from, as we had some dire disappointments our first year. I remember being quite mad that all the celosias didn’t last a month despite perfect siting. 😒
I would be thrilled if squaw weed volunteered in our garden! Here they call it golden groundsel. Both golden and running groundsels are native here. Running has thinner and wider spaced yellow petals. Depending on where you are, you might see the gorgeous black and red cinnabar moth near it, as it’s a host plant for their young.
We try to let volunteers grow until we can at least ID them, which has added some wonderful plants over time. This year there are a few patches of wild yarrow leafing out in the front of our house. My biggest surprise last year was a Queen Anne’s Lace. Although we do get lots of false carrots, it was the first year that showed up. Which reminds me, I saved some seeds from that and should start germinating them. The weather this year is much more mild than last, and we held off starting seeds indoors because we don’t have grow lights and last year everything got leggy and weak waiting for the weather to warm up because we haven’t built a small greenhouse yet–hopefully next year.
@Lily left the valley
It’s so funny how things don’t follow what they’re “supposed” to do, you never know what you’re going to get!
I drove past a roughly 40 ft long “wall” of Queen Anne’s Lace yesterday, it was breathtaking!
@bbstl Aye, that’s the amazing thing when you do see those wide swaths aka “carpets” of a certain species. Visually, it can be stunning in a good way, and sometimes even breathtaking due to the sheer scale of them. 😊
They’re not considered weeds, or at least haven’t been so far. Mine stayed contained for many years and suddenly in the last two years went berserk. Gosh, and their root system is serious! I also have goldenrod and phlox that have gone nuts, so I’ve been digging out a lot in order to,plant summer perennials for pollinators.
It depends on which resource you look at. To horticultural folks, they are a beloved flower and a must have in the garden. To native plant folks, they are a noxious weed that often escapes into woodlands and invasively crowds out native species on the forest floors, sometimes to the point of making near monocultures at the expense of what normally would be anywhere from 40-100s of varieties, depending on the micro clime. There also aren’t a lot of species here that feed on them, though there are some bacteria/fungi that can affect them when they are experiencing stress conditions (like drought or late frost).
That should have read “sometimes to the point of making near monocultures at the expense of what normally would be anywhere from 40-100s of varieties of other species, depending…”
Apparently I deleted the now missing post when trying to reply to it. Sorry about that, @mmmmm ! Think it\’s time for me to go to bed. 😴 (3:40 AM here)
I knew what you meant. 😄 I used to fall asleep around 2am at the latest, but as I got older, I started staying up later, and later, and now I’m lucky if I’m in bed by 4:30AM.
I know, but I also don’t have a typical day job (9-5), so I can sleep a full “night” hours wise thanks to sun blocking shades. I’ve always been a natural night owl, even when I was a kid.🦉
Hope the image doesn’t vanish this time. @mmmmm the first image is a photograph I took of them a few days ago-not planted a few days ago. So this image is from May 26, 2020, not May of 2021.
Their flowers are so cute; they are like upside-down, white little bells. 🙂 I know that this flower is used a lot in perfumes. It’s so nice to have the real ones at your house.
Yes, those are some clover nearby just starting to grow which I also try to encourage under there though they get limited sun (this “garden bed” is under the small porch for our side door right next to our driveway to the garage, but it does get some east and south sun).
Depending on the type of lily of the valley, they can grow anywhere from 6-12″ tall. I think this variety tops out around 6 or 7″. I’ve honestly never measured them.😊 They mostly spread underground by rhizomes, but also can develop a pea like seed.
We are in the New England region (USDA plant hardiness zone 5b). Our last frost date usually falls around May 20th, so we don’t have a very long growing season which is why both have just started to grow recently. Last year we had snow the second week in May, which isn’t typical, but can happen. We almost always have at least some snow in mid April here, though (including this year). I grew up in the mid-Atlantic region on a barrier island bordering the Atlantic which is a much more temperate zone. We rarely got snow there, and when we did the salt air usually made short work of it. I love snow which is one of the reasons we moved further north.
Yeah. I read somewhere that lily of the valley cannot withstand heat. Thus, a tropical girl like me can only see it thru picture. And as most picture doesnt have size comparation, ive never realize that theyre that smol 🤣🤣.
After the conversation about my screen name, I thought it would be fun to post an image I took a few days ago of 1/2 of my namesake starting to grow here at our forever home.
I’ll post a pic of them in bloom last year for now, but will post another later in the year when this year’s crop is in bloom. (Will have to make a new post for the photo, doesn’t seem to be a button in replies.)
Yeah, I haven’t rewatched the whole show again since that was in the news. I have thought about skimming through those scenes too, but just haven’t yet.
For me, it’s only partly because of his personal news but more because he’s just not an interesting actor (especially compared to the other two). I would have loved a spin-off of their characters.
I’m still suffering a bit of whiplash from FoE tonight. Just look at my poor tail! Look at it stuck half lashed! It might take all night to get the kinks out.
Me when I went to bed late, but woke up before FoE has even aired in SK, forget being subbed yet. (And had to remake this post 3 times because still half asleep.)
I came here and confirmed there is only one episode of FoE this week. I think I knew that, but was in denial. Might be for the best–my heart couldn’t take another ep after yesterday.
Lily left the valley
November 21, 2021 at 4:44 AM
Kept finding myself rewatching the boat scene…and decided it was time to change my wall image. He plays that moment so dang well. 🥰
Lily left the valley
November 5, 2021 at 4:55 PM
Been bookmarking all the dramas I’ve watched to add to my “favorites” here. Had not logged onto Viki in a while, and my old drama lists there are gone because they redid the account side.😱
mmmmm
November 6, 2021 at 12:21 AM
😱
Lily left the valley
September 8, 2021 at 4:10 PM
That moment when you realize your response has entered the Pedantic Dome, look around at the wider woes of the world, and decide…”Nope, not today,” then promptly delete the post. 😅
Lily left the valley
August 8, 2021 at 1:29 PM
Confession of a Kdrama addict that no one asked for: I’ve learned more Korean words, idioms and phrases from historicals than modern ones. (FWIW: both tradition and fusion.)
Netsuke
August 11, 2021 at 4:08 AM
Me too.
Lily left the valley
August 6, 2021 at 9:09 PM
I wanted to give You Are My Spring a chance-I like the FL, but have bad memories of the ML in another show as the jerk analyst/doctor. Plus too much creepy early on for me right now.😔
mmmmm
August 7, 2021 at 2:00 AM
When you feel like it you can give it a chance. 😉 it doesn’t have to be now.
Lily left the valley
August 7, 2021 at 5:06 PM
I honestly can’t remember at what point I simply developed a low threshold for early on creepy/overly murderly plots. I do remember it killed any chance I had of even starting the one show with the subway muderer which I can’t even recall the name of at the moment. 🤔 Maybe it was Criminal Minds that was the killing straw there? So many good actors in that show that I stuck it out to watch the whole thing. I just remember a whole lotta shows around then suddenly had weird dark twists that made me unhappy, even Welcome/Secret Boy had a creepy turn for Pete’s sake!
mmmmm
August 7, 2021 at 10:17 PM
The murder/mystery part in YAMS is crucial for the development of the story especially the development of the relationship between the leads. It’s too nerve-racking for me for binging the show though others might disagree with this. But anyway, I strongly recommend watching any show when you feel like it. 🙂
Lily left the valley
June 26, 2021 at 11:39 AM
Just noticed my beanie level, and now I\’m wondering if anyone that ever travels to Korea goes to the places that rent costumes ever dresses as a eunuch in drag. 🤔
Lily left the valley
June 26, 2021 at 11:40 AM
Or did I really mean…drag eunuch? I’m so confused now. Need more sleep.
bbstl 🧹
June 27, 2021 at 5:41 AM
Hahahahaha I wonder if the eunuch costume is even available.
Lily left the valley
June 27, 2021 at 5:25 PM
I was wondering the same thing!
bbstl 🧹
June 27, 2021 at 5:53 PM
Everyone probably wants to be a queen or king 🤣
Lily left the valley
August 6, 2021 at 9:14 PM
Every time I watch a show that has modern day folks renting costumes, I keep thinking of this thread. Recently, it was while watching Scripting Your Destiny. 🖋️
Lily left the valley
June 21, 2021 at 12:54 PM
Thought I took a picture when the flowers had developed the seeds, but can’t find it. So here’s a picture of what lily of the valley seeds look like. They do brown from drying over time.
Lily left the valley
May 23, 2021 at 10:05 PM
Tonight I’m planting seeds that germinated in water baths into soil filled paper containers, starting with these peas. (Some day…I will find time to add all the shows missing from my list here. 🤪)
Lily left the valley
May 23, 2021 at 1:06 AM
LoV update: And then there were more lilies of the valley…
Lily left the valley
May 15, 2021 at 5:18 PM
I finally took some follow-up photos of the lilies of the valley today. I was actually quite wrong about the size of the ones I have, so I’m glad I brought out a yard stick today! More new shoots too.
bbstl 🧹
May 16, 2021 at 7:15 AM
These are definitely a good size! I dug out feet of LOV this year, they were taking over my garden.
Lily left the valley
May 16, 2021 at 9:04 PM
I went to a friend’s house the other day, which they bought last year. The LoV in one bed had spread into their lawn as well as a bit over their property line where they border on a sloped woody area. A lot of the vegetation in the garden overall hadn’t been minded in a while, so there’s a lot of work to do there, as we found when we bought our home here. I’ll be helping her thin them out later this week, as they get very invasive here and can take over woodland areas, suppressing native plants. That’s why I put ours where they are–it’s hemmed in by the house foundation on one side, and the asphalt from the driveway on the other 3.
bbstl 🧹
May 17, 2021 at 8:44 AM
That was smart of you 👍🏼 Mine was contained by concrete on three sides and now decided to run down the remaining length of the bed 😤, crowding out so many bee-friendly perennials. I look at my little garden bed and have to laugh at how much money has been spent trying to make it a bee oasis and how many monarda I’ve managed to kill.
Lily left the valley
May 19, 2021 at 6:39 AM
One thing I didn’t realize about deadheading the monarda as much as I was made them over clump below ground and strangled themselves because I forgot you’re also supposed to divided them. 😳
Keeping them a bit thinned for air circulation to prevent powdery mildew helps too, especially if they are in partial shade. You can combine 1T of baking soda w/ water in a standard spray bottle and use it on the leaves if they get the mildew despite thinning during a rainy/damp year. I use the same mix when our pumpkin leaves get it too.
My worst garden thug yet best chop and drop is burdock. I’ve learned to use it to protect late growers so weeds don’t have much of a chance to start (like our strawberries we have between the fence and driveway), then chop the leaves back when those later plants are good and ready for some full sun time. I also keep it less thuggish now that I know to clip any seeds that start to form on them which I toss in our “baking bin” (metal ash can we put any vigorous weed seeds in for a year so the sun literally bakes them to death, and then they’re safe to compost).
I am still fairly horrible about starting flowers from seeds. We were lucky in that we “inherited” a lot of flowering perennials/self seeding annuals of various types when we bought our house–the original owners were definitely gardeners. 😄
bbstl 🧹
May 19, 2021 at 8:01 AM
My monarda grow a little the first year and then just don’t come back ☹️ Sadly, my thumb is not a green one. Thanks for the powdery mildew recipe, I just sprayed my newest (attempts at) monarda with copper fungicide because they literally came from the store and had PM three days later. My best plant by far this Spring is a 3 ft tall Squaw Weed that the birds kindly planted for me!
Lily left the valley
May 19, 2021 at 1:29 PM
@bbstl I’m going to try adding more monarda this year now that I know what I did wrong. Sometimes it takes a few days of spray to knock down the PM, depending on weather.
It took a while after we moved here before I figured out which local nurseries were worthwhile buying from, as we had some dire disappointments our first year. I remember being quite mad that all the celosias didn’t last a month despite perfect siting. 😒
I would be thrilled if squaw weed volunteered in our garden! Here they call it golden groundsel. Both golden and running groundsels are native here. Running has thinner and wider spaced yellow petals. Depending on where you are, you might see the gorgeous black and red cinnabar moth near it, as it’s a host plant for their young.
We try to let volunteers grow until we can at least ID them, which has added some wonderful plants over time. This year there are a few patches of wild yarrow leafing out in the front of our house. My biggest surprise last year was a Queen Anne’s Lace. Although we do get lots of false carrots, it was the first year that showed up. Which reminds me, I saved some seeds from that and should start germinating them. The weather this year is much more mild than last, and we held off starting seeds indoors because we don’t have grow lights and last year everything got leggy and weak waiting for the weather to warm up because we haven’t built a small greenhouse yet–hopefully next year.
bbstl 🧹
May 19, 2021 at 8:26 PM
@Lily left the valley
It’s so funny how things don’t follow what they’re “supposed” to do, you never know what you’re going to get!
I drove past a roughly 40 ft long “wall” of Queen Anne’s Lace yesterday, it was breathtaking!
Lily left the valley
May 20, 2021 at 11:37 PM
@bbstl Aye, that’s the amazing thing when you do see those wide swaths aka “carpets” of a certain species. Visually, it can be stunning in a good way, and sometimes even breathtaking due to the sheer scale of them. 😊
nilsche
May 16, 2021 at 9:55 PM
@bbstl @lilyleftthevalley are these considered as weeds in your area?
bbstl 🧹
May 17, 2021 at 8:41 AM
They’re not considered weeds, or at least haven’t been so far. Mine stayed contained for many years and suddenly in the last two years went berserk. Gosh, and their root system is serious! I also have goldenrod and phlox that have gone nuts, so I’ve been digging out a lot in order to,plant summer perennials for pollinators.
Lily left the valley
May 19, 2021 at 6:21 AM
It depends on which resource you look at. To horticultural folks, they are a beloved flower and a must have in the garden. To native plant folks, they are a noxious weed that often escapes into woodlands and invasively crowds out native species on the forest floors, sometimes to the point of making near monocultures at the expense of what normally would be anywhere from 40-100s of varieties, depending on the micro clime. There also aren’t a lot of species here that feed on them, though there are some bacteria/fungi that can affect them when they are experiencing stress conditions (like drought or late frost).
Lily left the valley
May 19, 2021 at 6:23 AM
That should have read “sometimes to the point of making near monocultures at the expense of what normally would be anywhere from 40-100s of varieties of other species, depending…”
Lily left the valley
May 7, 2021 at 12:41 AM
Apparently I deleted the now missing post when trying to reply to it. Sorry about that, @mmmmm ! Think it\’s time for me to go to bed. 😴 (3:40 AM here)
mmmmm
May 7, 2021 at 2:33 AM
Oh.. you should sleep this late though. I sleep late, too, like 2 a.m. but that’s as far as I can go. 😅 My goal is to sleep around 1 a.m.
mmmmm
May 7, 2021 at 2:34 AM
*shouldn’t ..oh my..
Lily left the valley
May 7, 2021 at 11:10 PM
I knew what you meant. 😄 I used to fall asleep around 2am at the latest, but as I got older, I started staying up later, and later, and now I’m lucky if I’m in bed by 4:30AM.
mmmmm
May 7, 2021 at 11:23 PM
But Lily you should sleep earlier than that. 🥺 It’s better for your health. This applies to you, too @ndlessjoie.
Lily left the valley
May 7, 2021 at 11:46 PM
I know, but I also don’t have a typical day job (9-5), so I can sleep a full “night” hours wise thanks to sun blocking shades. I’ve always been a natural night owl, even when I was a kid.🦉
mmmmm
May 8, 2021 at 12:38 AM
🦉
mmmmm
May 8, 2021 at 12:40 AM
I can be a shift 1 night owl; I go to sleep around 2 am.
mugyuljoie is preciousss
May 8, 2021 at 1:50 PM
I sleep when I can. Hoping it changes soon.
Lily left the valley
May 7, 2021 at 12:35 AM
Hope the image doesn’t vanish this time.
@mmmmm the first image is a photograph I took of them a few days ago-not planted a few days ago. So this image is from May 26, 2020, not May of 2021.
mmmmm
May 7, 2021 at 2:32 AM
Their flowers are so cute; they are like upside-down, white little bells. 🙂 I know that this flower is used a lot in perfumes. It’s so nice to have the real ones at your house.
mmmmm
May 7, 2021 at 3:18 AM
🌸 🌱
nilsche
May 7, 2021 at 7:44 AM
Is this lilly of the valley?
Lily left the valley
May 7, 2021 at 12:12 PM
yes
nilsche
May 7, 2021 at 2:43 PM
Is that clover next to it? It is that small?
Lily left the valley
May 7, 2021 at 11:39 PM
Yes, those are some clover nearby just starting to grow which I also try to encourage under there though they get limited sun (this “garden bed” is under the small porch for our side door right next to our driveway to the garage, but it does get some east and south sun).
Depending on the type of lily of the valley, they can grow anywhere from 6-12″ tall. I think this variety tops out around 6 or 7″. I’ve honestly never measured them.😊 They mostly spread underground by rhizomes, but also can develop a pea like seed.
We are in the New England region (USDA plant hardiness zone 5b). Our last frost date usually falls around May 20th, so we don’t have a very long growing season which is why both have just started to grow recently. Last year we had snow the second week in May, which isn’t typical, but can happen. We almost always have at least some snow in mid April here, though (including this year). I grew up in the mid-Atlantic region on a barrier island bordering the Atlantic which is a much more temperate zone. We rarely got snow there, and when we did the salt air usually made short work of it. I love snow which is one of the reasons we moved further north.
nilsche
May 8, 2021 at 12:49 AM
Yeah. I read somewhere that lily of the valley cannot withstand heat. Thus, a tropical girl like me can only see it thru picture. And as most picture doesnt have size comparation, ive never realize that theyre that smol 🤣🤣.
Lily left the valley
May 6, 2021 at 5:38 PM
After the conversation about my screen name, I thought it would be fun to post an image I took a few days ago of 1/2 of my namesake starting to grow here at our forever home.
mmmmm
May 6, 2021 at 9:53 PM
I have NEVER seen the real lily
of the valley! Pls post your picture when it has fully bloomed also!
Lily left the valley
May 7, 2021 at 12:08 AM
I’ll post a pic of them in bloom last year for now, but will post another later in the year when this year’s crop is in bloom. (Will have to make a new post for the photo, doesn’t seem to be a button in replies.)
Lily left the valley
April 23, 2021 at 11:14 PM
Just leaving this here to remind myself I’m overdue of a rewatch of this drama…
Lily left the valley
April 21, 2021 at 9:06 AM
Catching up to Vincenzo, and SKS keeps coming up in comments, and all I can think of is these two…
kiara
April 21, 2021 at 9:12 AM
They were magical together ❤️. They totally deserved the best couple award.
I’m going to die if they play opposite each other in a drama or film.
bbstl 🧹
April 22, 2021 at 7:34 AM
They’re so great! I started watching it again last week but have to FF through all the Mickey ☹️
Lily left the valley
April 23, 2021 at 10:47 PM
Yeah, I haven’t rewatched the whole show again since that was in the news. I have thought about skimming through those scenes too, but just haven’t yet.
bbstl 🧹
April 25, 2021 at 8:21 AM
For me, it’s only partly because of his personal news but more because he’s just not an interesting actor (especially compared to the other two). I would have loved a spin-off of their characters.
Lily left the valley
February 19, 2021 at 6:17 PM
Cripes. 2020 is still leaching time from 2021. Never enough hours in the day for all the K stuff I’d rather be doing.
Ally
February 19, 2021 at 6:47 PM
Memories of the sword deserves a rewatch.
Lily left the valley
February 22, 2021 at 7:57 PM
It did indeed. 😉
Lily left the valley
September 10, 2020 at 11:37 PM
I’m still suffering a bit of whiplash from FoE tonight. Just look at my poor tail! Look at it stuck half lashed! It might take all night to get the kinks out.
Lily left the valley
September 9, 2020 at 4:53 AM
Me when I went to bed late, but woke up before FoE has even aired in SK, forget being subbed yet. (And had to remake this post 3 times because still half asleep.)
Lily left the valley
September 6, 2020 at 10:36 PM
*looks at calendar* Wednesday feels so far awaaaaay.
Lily left the valley
September 3, 2020 at 10:02 AM
I came here and confirmed there is only one episode of FoE this week. I think I knew that, but was in denial. Might be for the best–my heart couldn’t take another ep after yesterday.