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Ramblings of a retiree in France
Flowering Friday #7
My mother was blessed with very green fingers, sadly I am not. Buy me fa bunch of lowers or indeed a potted plant and no bookie would give you odds on how long it’ll last. Now, I may be tempting fate here, but I’m currently still nursing a couple of plants that friends bought me over two months ago. They’re probably on borrowed time.
However, I absolutely adore flowers in situ and that’s what I’m going to be featuring over the next few months or so. These peonies were at Longwood Gardens, just outside Philadelphia.
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I so agree with your thoughts (and pictures) about flowers being in situ
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Thanks Derrick
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Beautiful, Sheree 🙂 Peonies were one of my grandmother’s favourites and always hold a special place in my heart 🙂 We have a little bush in our yard and it always makes me think of her 💕
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That’s lovely Patti, thank you
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it is great if we can get into the garden, i feel i dont as much as i could my wife does, we get to see all those wonderful colours.
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Absolutely David
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What a lovely place Longwood is, throughout the seasons. I am pretty good at anything outdoors but have long since lost my green fingers for house plants. I don’t think I’ve had the right light since 1992.
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Longwood is magnificent
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These posts make me very ready for spring!
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It’s not far off for us just a week or so
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I’m like you! I have to work soooooo hard to get things to grow
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Good to know I’m not the only one
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You are not alone! N
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Lovely. We had lots of peonies at one of the houses where I grew up. I loved them but also remember that when you brought them inside, you almost always brought in an ant or two as well. 🙂
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They are so gorgeous but I didn’t appreciate the range of colours until I saw beds of them in Longwood
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Peonies are beautiful, my grandmother had a lot of them and hollyhocks. Great photo Sheree!😊😺🌞📷
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Thanks Steve
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Welcome!
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Same here🙄
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I’m trying but not successful in growing these beauties…yet.
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Keep trying BC
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Most people smother their plants and kill them with too much love and care. Me, I rough and tumble, toss and shove and water it once. Then forget and find mostly surviving surprises the next week I’m in the Garden.
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I’ll have to try that
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Flowers are forever beautiful.
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Absolutely Jerome
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These are gorgeous ❤
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Thanks
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Never seen so many peonies in one place, though we have our share
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There were loads of beds of them
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