How Do You Know When You've Had a Successful First Flush?
SylviaWW 9a Hot dry SoCal
7 years ago
1) It takes you over an hour to deadhead.
2) You have no clean vases. Everything that could possibly hold flowers is already doing so.
3) Your hand vac is in constant use, picking up petals from floors, tables, countertops, etc., etc.
4) If you are allergic, you go through two bottles of Flonase in one month.
But it's all worth it! Here's a little sonata in yellow and vermilion.
What're your criteria?
Sniffling but happy,
Sylvia
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7 years agoHere is a long shot looking at about half of our frontage on the sidewalk - taken yesterday:
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