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Home ยป Makes Me Think of Spring

Makes Me Think of Spring

February 21, 2010 by Ilona Erwin

Eggs, potting soil, plants… it all adds up to a new season for me- even though the view outside my window still holds mounds of snow.

clipped from kathybrowngarden.blogspot.com

Houseleeks and echeverias adorn the stand; funny really because in the USA echeverias are known as the hen and chicken plant cos of all the little babies around the mother plant.

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  1. Hocking Hills Gardener says

    February 22, 2010 at 3:03 pm

    Now how clever and cute is that to have sedum’s in eggs shells.Wonderful!

  2. johanna_lea says

    February 23, 2010 at 2:05 pm

    foggy morning

    temperatures dropping

    fickle spring!

  3. Ilona says

    February 23, 2010 at 3:45 pm

    A few degrees colder and your experience of the season is as mine ๐Ÿ™‚

    HHG- my thoughts exactly! I bet I can get some of those going in March ๐Ÿ™‚

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