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If you wanna see the pictures, go to alt.binaries.pictures.gardens.........
I've had these bulbs now for well over 16 years. No, they're not nearly
as large as I'd wish them to be. But that's not a problem. They're VERY happy in the heavy clay pot they live in now. I feed them bulb food in the summer, drag them outside once frost is past, and back inside for winter before killing freeze. This year I had feared the sneaky freeze we'd gotten unexpectedly (this surprised even our infallible meteorologist who NEVER misses) had killed them. Usually they emerge almost missed by me in February in the midst of the winter chaos. Not so this year. When all around me was blooming two months too soon outside, the soil was barren and not showing one purple mottled green tongue........March came and went. I dug into the soil slightly and felt the tip of one bulb, and gently tugged. It resisted. sigh.......good, it's not dead, I hoped. Then the first two weeks slipped by in April, and I had started watering in earnest. Wakey wakey, it's SPRING in Tennessee(or Africa, it's choice)or winter, whichever it felt it was. mattered not. I wanted to know if it was gone and I should weep and wail and try and locate replacements. But never fear, there they were three days ago.............and there will be MORE blossoms to wow me and you if you can STAND it........sigh.......let the blood lilies flaunt their beauty! So for those of youse who is curious and can get to alt.binaries.pictures.gardens......there they are. And there are more shoving through the soil!! (I'm so happy I could split!)Now if I could only locate someone who has a shedload of white rain lilies (Zephyranthes) (or even yellow or pink ones.......) madgardener up on the ridge, back in Fairy Holler, overlooking English Mountain in Eastern Tennesssee zone 7, Sunset zone 36 |
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If you wanna see the pictures, go to alt.binaries.pictures.gardens.........
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madgardener wrote: (I'm so happy I could split!) Ah, a real gardener :-) - Bill (usw) |
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If you wanna see the pictures, go to alt.binaries.pictures.gardens.........
William Rose wrote:
In article , madgardener wrote: (I'm so happy I could split!) Ah, a real gardener :-) - Bill (usw) well, yeah.........I AM the madgardener after all gbseg (I have pictures of the last tree peony which is gasp inspiring! woo hoo!!!!!!!!!!!!!! maddie |
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If you wanna see the pictures, go to alt.binaries.pictures.gardens.........
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madgardener wrote: William Rose wrote: In article , madgardener wrote: (I'm so happy I could split!) Ah, a real gardener :-) - Bill (usw) well, yeah.........I AM the madgardener after all gbseg (I have pictures of the last tree peony which is gasp inspiring! woo hoo!!!!!!!!!!!!!! maddie I hope it's contagious. I think we could all do with a little. - Bill ('twas brillig and the slithy toves did all gyre and gimble in the wabe) |
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