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I agree that it's calming. I don't totally hate it. There's part of me that likes it and that part grows larger over time. I could work with it in combos happily - I think it would have a chamomile tea effect. In practice, I think it still falls over into the frumpy and gross category for me.

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I really like how soft and unshowy it is. Definitely a shade-favoring plant.

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edit: In practice it really, really sounds like Mirdle in my accent, or Murdle, which is not soft and lovely, but murky, muddy, and grumpy.

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edit 2: The wonderful poem Dover Beach has a funny line about a "bright girdle furled." This poem was set to music for baritone and string quartet. I played in it once, and from the rehearsals and performance the echoing phrase "girdle furled" sung so trailingly and beautifully has always amused me and struck me as wonderfully absurd, almost to the point of giggling, because the sonics of those words are so clunky, especially together. Gurdlefurld

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This message was edited 9/30/2020, 4:09 PM