ScarlettP
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Post by ScarlettP on Apr 5, 2007 18:11:51 GMT -5
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Bob
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Post by Bob on Apr 6, 2007 7:21:48 GMT -5
3 and 4 look a lot like my front yard. I've decided to encourage the clover, its almost "won" anyway.
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Post by Warkitty on Apr 6, 2007 7:38:48 GMT -5
If I have something blooming when I get home I'll load up some pics.
Scarlett, I love the pics.
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Post by Laura Rice on Apr 6, 2007 8:34:34 GMT -5
I love the wild violets and the star of Bethlem... Those are my favorite at our house too. They are aggressive and invasive but so pretty and dainty.
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Post by NewsShooter on Apr 6, 2007 10:03:50 GMT -5
I've often wondered what makes one plant a flower and another a weed. Often, the weeds look just as pretty as flowers. Nice shots, Scarlett.
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Post by Bob on Apr 6, 2007 15:36:04 GMT -5
If you want it growing in that place, its a flower. If you don't want it growing in that place, its a weed.
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Post by ScarlettP on Apr 6, 2007 17:48:50 GMT -5
Absolutely! Personally, I've always liked wild flowers. My grandmother used to call the little white, 5 petaled ones "Johnny Jump Ups". If they have another name, I've never heard it. When you look very close, you can see little pink 'veins' on the white petals. They are my favorites. I used to cry if my parents mowed the lawn before Easter because I thought the yard looked SO much better blooming.
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Post by Jay on Apr 6, 2007 20:35:43 GMT -5
Yah, it's so cool when the grass is two feet tall, wild flowers everywhere and generally looks like a jungle. I don't know why people are always making me cut the grass....... They mumble something about snakes living under there or something, heh Kewl flower pics by the way. Look kewl, they do
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Post by ScarlettP on Apr 7, 2007 10:28:46 GMT -5
LOL! I wonder if I could get away with sewing the entire yard over on Culver Street with wild flower seed? Then never mow it. I could say it was a "wild flower preserve" or something.
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Post by Felix on Apr 7, 2007 14:10:12 GMT -5
Several years ago, a yard on Hixson Pike midway between the Riverview shopping center and Bright School was sown entirely to wildflowers. Each spring and for much of the summer a ragged blanket of many colors provided me much pleasure when I drove past. In fact, I sometimes went out of my way to drive by. The yard was fairly large, maybe 150 feet frontage going back 50 feet or so, with large trees scattered about. The whole effect was beautiful.
Then apparently the people needed to move, and shortly after a realtor's sign appeared in the yard, all the wildflowers were plowed under and a lawn planted. I suspect the realtor told the family their house would never sell with all those "weeds" in the yard.
I surely miss those weeds.
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