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Jul 5, 2017 10:15 AM CST
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Name: Dave Whitinger
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These seedlings are starting to bloom again this year and I'm loving some of these colors. Last fall I transplanted about a dozen of the most interesting ones out to the hill beside my house so I could watch what they do.

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One of them is really interesting. Pictures don't do it justice but I'll try to share anyway.

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As you see, it's a really nice deep pink, almost like dark cotton candy. You all know that Muskogee and Zuni are both lavender blooms so the following photo shows Muskogee next to it. Muskogee is on the left, my seedling on the right.

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and here is Zuni:

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Anyway, I'm really enjoying this cotton candy pink and it's also exhibiting really nice growth habit and rate. You can see in that first image that it is already quite large considering its young age.

I also have this really interesting very dark red bloom on another seedling:

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The line also contains a number of black leaf plants and I'll be watching them to see what they look like this second year.

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