Planted

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I planted 4 golden feverfew that I grew from seed, plus 2 ‘Blackbird’ euphorbias, 2 ‘Dark Towers’ penstemons, and 1 ‘Hot Stuff’ sedum. The euphorbias will probably not make it through the winter, but a girl can dream, can’t she?

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Kathy Purdy is a colchicum evangelist, converting unsuspecting gardeners into colchicophiles. She gardens in rural upstate NY, which used to be USDA Hardiness Zone 4 but is now Zone 5. Kathy’s been writing since 4th grade, gardening since high school, and blogging since 2002. Find her on Instagram as kopurdy.

What differentiates a bulb from a perennial plant is that the nourishment for the flower is stored within the bulb itself.…There is something miraculous about the way that a little grenade of dried up tissue can explode into a complete flower.

~Monty Don in The Complete Gardener pp. 142

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