We solved some of the world’s problems! Fun chatting with you, Debbie!

I have a always wanted to fold a map of Vermont in front of an audience.

Yep, that was pretty much it! They knew the “rampion” they were growing was aggressive and it was kept in pots, not in the ground.

… caused her to check out some things and it turned out they had been growing the rapunculoides species and wrongly calling it rampion as in the fairy tale. After that they reordered the less invasive plant!

One place I did research for my Rapunzel book was the Cloisters, a branch of New York’s Metropolitan Museum specializing in Medieval Art and culture. They had a garden and I got in touch with the gardener to come see the rampion planted in their garden. Our correspondence…

Bellflowers can be very aggressive; I don’t know if this one is a weed, and being a weed is sort of a subjective judgment (“a rose is a weed in a potato patch”). Rapunzel (= rampion) is a bellflower: campanula rapunculus.

I think it would be fantastic for some sort of crafts projects. At least on a wall, this adhesive allows removal and repositioning.

I recently got wallpaper from Spoonflower.com for my apartment: my own endpaper design from “The Enchanted Castle”— see it on my website.
There is a lot left, 1/2 roll wide x 12’ long or so. It’s not good as wallpaper—images are very cut-off—but you can cut it up and all of it has adhesive backing.

I just read about that. I was curious, too. But not enough to pull petals off and try them.

Thank you, Horn Book!