RE: Happy Birthday, Rusty was Chinese Empress
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- Subject: RE: Happy Birthday, Rusty was Chinese Empress
- From: M*@fin.gc.ca
- Date: Mon, 30 Mar 1998 07:15:22 -0700 (MST)
Rusty
Have a happy birthday. Is the iris that blooms on your birthday always
your favourite?
Maureen Mark
Ottawa, Canada (zone 4) -- where the snow has melted on the south side
of the house, two feet remaining on the north side
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rusty Thornsburg [SMTP:rtburg@mailexcite.com]
> Sent: Monday, March 30, 1998 7:25 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: Chinese Empress
>
> Hello listers!
>
> As a birthday present to me, Chinese Empress is in bloom this morning
> and it is gorgeous!
> Anner, the texture on the falls is like nothing I've ever seen before
> (which isn't
> saying *that* much, but still...) Anyway, for those of you who aren't
> familiar with
> this flower, it's got icy blue standards, dark purple falls, and
> there's hints of
> brown on the stylearms and inside midribs of the standards. it also
> smells great!
> Mom went outside with me just a few minutes ago and said it had
> "almost perfect"
> branching... I could ramble on and on or just say
>
> "guess who has a new favorite flower,"
> Rusty
> (age 16 until 7:44 pm)
> Fort Worth, Texas...bloomstalks/buds on: Branching Out, Starple, Point
> Made, Hagar's
> Helmet, Winterscape, Hindu Magic, Hello Hobo, Sky Hooks, Louise Todd,
> Chief Hematite,
> Buckwheat, Batik, Thornbird, Megabucks, 2 unknown varieties (we'll
> know what they
> are when they bloom) and I'm missing a few
>
>
>
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