Wikipedia, in its definition of “primrose path” says:
Not to be confused with “led up the ‘garden path'”, which is an idiom suggesting that one is being deceived or led astray.
Strictly speaking, I am making that confusion. For this is about a blog post by Cornelius Hunter, where he unwittingly shows that he has led himself up the garden path. His blog post is, in part, about primroses and that is the basis for the title that I chose.
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