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This is a view of my neighbor Adrene's
yard. You've enjoyed many flowers from here. It is the first
thing I see when I leave the house each morning.
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My azaleas are popping like mad, I
usually have a hard time getting the color right on this bush, but not
this time.
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We have seven azalea varieties in our
yard. I think this is my favorite, but that changes.
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Cow slobber, yep, that's the name.
Also known as Spiderwort. It gets the name from a gelatinous fluid
in the stalk.
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Here's another color of Spiderwort.
I have three types in my yard. They'll give me thousands of blooms
before they quit, and I finally mow that area in about two months.
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Soon after we moved into our house in
1991, we planted three dogwoods. Drought killed two of them, but
this one stayed. Then we got a Labrador Puppy, who took the "dog" in
dogwood seriously. She chewed it almost to the ground, but it
survived. Then, just as it was recovering, we lost a big limb
off our oak tree. It fell onto the house and smashed the little tree.
This year, the tough little guy finally bloomed. Kathy is happy; she
always wanted her own dogwood.
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Dogwoods from Adrene's tree.
I can't get enough of them.
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