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Perfect purple petals
Posted on June 29th, 2010 by Chris
A much better shot of our larkspur’s flowers. If you’ve just arrived, I don’t want to boast, but the plant measures a whopping four foot ten — or almost as tall as Shana
How big is a biiiiig larkspur?
Posted on June 29th, 2010 by Chris
We have measured our larkspur and found it to be 4′10″. For those in the euro-metric zone, that’s loads and loads and loads of fiddly millimetres. Click on the pic below to see it (almost) life size.
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Mystery flower now identified
Posted on June 29th, 2010 by Chris
The answer to our mystery flower puzzle was, of course, a poppy. When I say ‘of course’, what I really mean is ‘oh, of course!’ (note pertinent use of italics and exclamation mark), the subtext being (what else?) something along the lines of We should have known all along that it was a poppy and [...]
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Giant larkspur flowers at last
Posted on June 28th, 2010 by Chris
Our experiment in growing wild flowers has been nothing if not educational. The more we learn, the more we realise we have still to learn; this giant fooled us (not always a difficult task, that) into thinking, for a while at least, that it was some kind of fir tree. Who slipped that particular horticultural [...]
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