Re: OT-CHAT: spring, vale of despond

Will you have unwelcome visitors?

Char
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From: "Linda Mann" <lmann@volfirst.net>
To: "iris- talk" <iris@hort.net>
Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 12:26 PM
Subject: [iris] OT-CHAT: spring, vale of despond


> I can't complain about gardening in the vale of despond for irises -
> small drifts of gorgeous snow crocuses are in full bloom.  They have
> naturalized in parts of abandoned iris beds and lawn, mostly various
> shades of the lavender ones - C. thomasiana?
> 
> And the frogs and singing at the top of their lungs, keeping me company
> as I transplant iris seedlings to bigger pots out in the warm sunshine
> ...so what if they don't live to adulthood..neither will most of the
> baby frogs.  It won't be long till the ravine behind the house will be
> carpeted with bloodroot, gold poppy, yellow trillium, dutchman's
> bloomers, troutlilies, mayapple, golden seal, and along the creek closer
> to the house, Virginia bluebells.
> 
> --
> Linda Mann east Tennessee USA zone 7/8
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