Bloomin' spring

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So many of our customers become friends and we have some who delight us by corresponding.  One has just sent us a really long letter and has included the following paragraph about her Louisianas that we had sent her over the past 2 years and we just had to share it with you:

 

"My mother has really fallen for SPRING WELCOME, trotting 'round the side of the house several times a day to gloat over it ... actually, when I drive into the carport, it sits there oppostie BAYOU MYSTIQUE, framing the side path most attractively. 

 

HORDERN'S HENRY is in full bloom on the verandah by the front door.  This may seem an odd place, but last year, for want of anywhere else to put it, I dumped MARJORIE BRUMMITT on the eastern end of the verandah and virtually forgot it, until it bloomed first of all the LAs.  Facing north, and with a fairly high roofline, the verandah actually gets a lot of sun at this time of the year, so 10 LAs now share it with many of my pelargoniums, and 2 bouganvilleas in tubs. 

 

Six of the 10 are in bloom at the moment ... but not FIGHTING SPIRIT;  I think that it would have been better named "Natural Disaster" or "Death Wish".  Last year snails;  this year, first it and GUESSING GAME were continuously plagued with grey aphids (the others weren't); then, with aphids under control, at last, a budstalk .......

which fell victim to a fight between 3 tomcats over the neighbour's neglected female kitten, which was trying to hide behind the pots (-it regards our garden as a sanctuary from the junked-out desert which the 8 children, 3 large dogs and sundry other animals have created next door since they moved in 2 years ago;  their rabbits regard my garden as a banquetting hall;  the younger children try sneaking over the fence to play 'hide-and-seek'  in it);  however, FIGHTING SPIRIT now has 2 new stalks;  I'm thinking of taking bets on whether it blooms before the forecast locust plague arrives."

 

And you think you have an eventful life!!

 

Regards

Heather and Bernard i*@pip.com.au