"Bette" wrote in
oups.com:

My mom had hydrangea bushes in her yard years ago. She had
a green thumb.

it's pretty hard to kill one of those old fashioned
hydrangeas. we had an ancient row of them along the driveway &
i tore them out because they were overgrown, & in the way. i
tossed some of the cut branches into the swampy area in the
front & darned if i don't have hydrangeas blooming in there 2
years later

lee found some pink roses in there too
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If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the
guise of
fighting a foreign enemy. -James Madison, fourth US president
(1751-1836)