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  • From: Lisa Kae Van Meter Perry <lisakvperry AT gmail.com>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Spring tasks and taking time to "smell the roses"
  • Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 14:42:28 -0400

On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 2:38 PM, Robert Walton <waltonrp AT gmail.com> wrote:

> Lynn sorry to hear about your Grandma, I know the bittersweet
> feeling.


That was me, but I knew what you meant. ;)

>
> I've been good at scrounging flowers. There is an old graveyard in the
> woods (property next to mine), I dug a few scoops of the periwinkle
> that's grown out into the woods from the burial ground. There is only
> one gravestone, she died in 1855, I like to think that the periwinkle
> has been growing there for a very long time.


This sounds like fun! Flower-scrounging! Maybe it should become my newest
hobby.

>
> Does anyone know if lambs ear has any use other than ornamental? I got
> it on a trade with a gardening friend, not sure what to do with it
> other than look at it and weed it out in the spring :>)
>

Don't know but it will spread rapidly and want to take over wherever you put
it.

>
> Lisa




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