Chores

By Kathy Purdy April 9, 2009 – Posted in: Garden Tweets
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Cut back dead stuff in the birdbath garden, mostly phlox and Siberian iris. Only nice day this week.

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Kathy Purdy is a colchicum evangelist, converting unsuspecting gardeners into colchicophiles. She would be delighted to speak to your group about colchicums or other gardening topics. Kathy’s been writing since 4th grade, gardening since high school, and blogging since 2002.

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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Bren/ BGgarden April 9, 2009, 10:24 pm

This is at the top of my list too! I keep forgetting that bed WAY OUT FRONT!
Happy Spring – enjoy life!

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