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Aug 5, 2014 4:49 AM CST
Name: Vickie
southern Indiana (Zone 6b)
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chalyse said: I've come to include spent flower appearance in my list of desirable characteristics when I choose cultivars to include in my home hybridizing. I love the mostly pale spent colors, softly curling or umbrella'd forms that appear as they age, and the way some will almost turn into new flower form by a day or two later ... long, penciled-up throats curved gracefully down and sometimes end in a burst of tiny sprayed tips outward. Lovey dubby



I guess I've never thought of the spent bloom as desirable, but maybe I will look at them in a different way now! Interesting, Tina Smiling

I have very rarely live-headed. And this year, rarely dead-headed because I want to see which ones easily pollinate.
May all your weeds be wildflowers. ~Author Unknown

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