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The 'Tenby' daffodils I planted have all been deadheaded. As have the 'Thalia' clump (they bloom fairly late). But the 'Pheasant's Eye' are up and blooming (I think this is the first year they've actually bloomed). Of course at least one of the hellebores (the one that escaped the bed in front of my front porch is STILL blooming -- those hellebores are like the Energizer Bunny!. I did notice though, that the brunnera (I think from the leaves it's from from the 'Jack Frost' cultivar I planted) that had ALSO escaped the front border has just started blooming in the past few days. But it wasn't until I was walking a tree guy around the front yard on Thursday (the electric company hired his company to trim branches overhanging the road and the power lines in my town) that I realized it WAS in bloom, because the brunnera flowers are so tiny in relation to the rest of the plant. But they're really and truly BLUE: not just a case of "'blue' flowers means they're really 'purple'...." :huh:

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

"It's very nice, but frankly, when I signed that list for a P-51, what I had in mind was a fountain pen."

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I have some planting to do this week. Picked up some plants on Saturday, but the weather wasn't conducive to planting. Hopefully the rain stops and dries things up overnight so I can get them planted.

Brad

"Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind" - Rudyard Kipling
"None of us can have as many virtues as the fountain-pen, or half its cussedness; but we can try." - Mark Twain

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Beautiful :)

 

What sort of pen/nib did you write that with? You've got such perfect flat tops to the starts of all the letters in "summer" but such perfect thin letters in the "two thousand and eighteen" part :o I clearly have a lot to learn about calligraphy! :)

Nevermind me! I'm just an inkling, a mere pigment of your imagination...

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Hadn't seen this beautiful homage to summer until now, thanks Ken!

Is it fair for an intelligent and family oriented mammal to be separated from his/her family and spend his/her life starved in a concrete jail?

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