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  1. Shades-of-Oregon

    What are your favorite perennial flowers?

    @Dahlia @Blueberry Acres 🤩 Thnkyou Dahlia. 😍 And Blue your description of the panicle buds resembling pearls is perfect. Other easy care perinneals : Astilbe, Hostas, Callunas , Ericacease , Aquilegia, Brunnera, Dicentra….these always pop up on Que every season. My all time favorite late...
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    Concerned About Growing Old?

    I had the same issues with hands and feet freezing will dry out hands and feet quickly. I use small hand and boot shaker packets to stay warm and comfortable. But with dry skin on feet and heels it’s literally a good thing to wrap them covered in crisco then sealed with suran wrap over night...
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    Anyone recognize this plant?

    @Dahlia 4 outta 4 agree it’s a sedum ‘autumn joy’ . Sedum (Hylotelephium spectabile 'Herbstfreude') Bees luv the blooms and the always bloom in late summer/fall. Hardy in my zone 8b and deer , gopher and ground squirrel safe.
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    Concerned About Growing Old?

    Ah Ha… i remember the days of cotton clothing . I remember having to starch shirts and pants and used the sprinkler bottle for ironing DH army uniforms. They had to have creases exactly correct for the dress and casual uniforms. Today they are not a strict and fabrics have totally changed.
  5. Shades-of-Oregon

    What are your favorite perennial flowers?

    I am a huge fan of hydrangeas climbing , big leaf. and oak leaf etc. . A easy care perennial shrub. A shrub with a coat of many colors.
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    Concerned About Growing Old?

    To sprinkle cloths before ironing. The top attached to a cork seals the water inside the bottle and the tip has small holes in order to turn the bottle upside down to lightly sprinkle clothing before ironing. I still have mine I put vinegar in the bottle to sprinkle fresh berries then rinse...
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    Garden humor thread..

    Cowboy Logic. If you think your someone with influence, try ordering someone’s dog around.
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    Amaryllis

    Mature Amaryllis bulbs will produce tiny new bublets starting at less than an inch in size. But they don’t multiply like other bulbs grown out in the garden in my zone. I grow them in pots for the holidays . Some amaryllis breeders have started to cross breed their own bulbs by using a pipe...
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    Restarting the garden

    Great disco party… can I come ?
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    Garden humor thread..

    Cowboy logic. Timing has a lot to do with the out come of a rain dance
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    Amaryllis

    Above comment is reality in many winter areas . So true . Lovely and with 2 flower stalks. @Phaedra what a beautiful Hippeastrum/ amaryllis. It looks similar to Minerva, Star of Holland , or Nagano? Star of Hollander is a wide variety of amaryllis with a center white star , red or orangish...
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    Coffee

    @Gardening with Rabbits it sounds like your backed up against the wall . The flu is going around here to as well as schools were closed because of the measles outbreak. When the kids were in school they brought every bug home too. Staying is tough when family is sick. Sorry about Blinky what...
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    Coffee

    @Phaedra Looks decadent and yummy. In a special glass. Luv it.
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    stubbed toes and mud pies

    Just read thru this thread to catch up on all the @flowerbug activities. Computer programs and additional data entry and locating date response: Writing computer programs is a long term ever changing updating process. Required updating every few months to keep up with current changes made to...
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    New from North Georgia.

    :welcome Great to see some pics of your bean collection.
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    Using tag, quotes #,s

    This extension of understanding with the terms of use can be obviating. The complementary approach seen in the above posts is as it is. Using the explination approach as the primary method widens with diagrams can circumvent or counteract the underlying outcome. To facilitate explanations of...
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    Newbie from Western Washington State

    @Catzi :welcome Lots of gardening info available and questions always answered quickly. Building garden skills and sharing lessons learned.
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    Somehow, It's Funny that Way

    I have actually trained my dogs to pick up things that I drop. Well… really they watch me groan and stare at the fallen object until they decided on their own to pick up what’s fallen. After all the floor is their territory. 😉
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    Funny Business

    That’s my first thought. Or maybe they were wearing their ear pods. I am guilty of that while shopping until one day a lady actually was choking and fell to the floor in front of me. I grabbed a water off the shelf opened it and she had to breathe to drink it and thankfully that worked. She was...
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