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Idk how good the resolution is on the BlueSky receiving end but zoom in on the freckles! Miraculous!
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I just realized mine never came back this year. Hmmmm
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Ok I’ll check next year. But also wondering if the astronomically tide killed it.
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Mine spread seeds and never come back the same way twice, it seems. I am geneticist but foxglove freckles are beyond my research area hahah
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Our foxglove just came in but this is not the big bloom and will be huge next spring. Yes they are biannual.
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Ok cool! But I’m still wondering if the cove flooding hit them. It certainly hit other plants and tulips. It’s brackish water but enough salt to kill. I’ll 🤞 until next year.
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Did you have enough rain to flush the salt from the soil afterward? You can do that. Maybe check the pH? It is cheap and fun - maybe you already do that? As a scientist, my garden is kinda messy but has its own chemistry kit
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It’s weird because other plants survived. I had 20 tulips and only about 5 this year. The irises are fine.
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I think here anyway, tulips rot easily. Irises, never.
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They do poop out but these were 2 years old. Far too soon to crap out. I’ve got some that survived the move and are about 15 years old.
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Yeah, I haven’t had tulips do more than bloom and survive. They just don’t thrive in my yard for years on end. If they do well, the ground squirrels or moles eat em
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Also we had a ton of rain! Too much rain but I’m thinking it might have flushed the soil.
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Toby has the correct term as biennial. Debbie is wrong, second time.
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Not keeping score and I wasn’t going to correct anyone.
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Funny story- a kid was sleeping over w/ my daughter and told me I spelled school wrong. She was 12 and adamant. I bet her whomever was right had to make breakfast. My daughter pleaded with her- “my mom writes FOR A LIVING- you are in 6th grade.”
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Omelets or hot cakes? 😂
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did she think the was a k in the mix? Or a weird q?
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Now that part, I don’t remember. I do remember that I let her off the hook for making us all breakfast bec reality deflated her so! I believe it was even a hard bound dictionary. Hahah 18 yrs ago
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