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Re: Are there any backyard veggie gardeners here?
« Reply #1035 on: October 16, 2014, 06:25:18 am »
Wow she's a beauty cookie.

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Re: Are there any backyard veggie gardeners here?
« Reply #1036 on: October 16, 2014, 07:41:50 am »
Cookie,  that is just gorgeous.

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Re: Are there any backyard veggie gardeners here?
« Reply #1037 on: October 16, 2014, 07:43:59 am »


Know this isn't veggies, but wanted to share.

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Re: Are there any backyard veggie gardeners here?
« Reply #1038 on: October 16, 2014, 09:02:59 am »
Green with envy that you grew the pineapple Cookie :D :D What a beauty ;D

Gorgeous flowers Chookie.I love lilies but my Mum was so superstitious and wouldn't have them in the house :D
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Re: Are there any backyard veggie gardeners here?
« Reply #1039 on: October 16, 2014, 09:05:02 am »
Great growing girls.
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Re: Are there any backyard veggie gardeners here?
« Reply #1040 on: October 16, 2014, 09:57:06 am »
Green with envy that you grew the pineapple Cookie :D :D What a beauty ;D

Gorgeous flowers Chookie.I love lilies but my Mum was so superstitious and wouldn't have them in the house :D
CC, my mum was the same about lilies.  Said they were funeral flowers.  These ones are fake.  The rest are real and from our garden.  The fine white ones are called Bridal veil and the red ones Waratah.

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Re: Are there any backyard veggie gardeners here?
« Reply #1041 on: October 16, 2014, 12:35:50 pm »
I'm amazed by your pineapple cookie, and your flowers are beautiful Chookie.
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Re: Are there any backyard veggie gardeners here?
« Reply #1042 on: October 16, 2014, 12:48:28 pm »
My Mum called the lilies funeral flowers too. MIL adores them though.
Chookie I love waratahs. I have only ever seen them at Floriade. Are they hard to grow? I wonder if they could stand our heat?
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Re: Are there any backyard veggie gardeners here?
« Reply #1043 on: October 16, 2014, 08:50:26 pm »
Cookie the Waratahs are grown commercially in our area so I think they may be suited to the cold.

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Re: Are there any backyard veggie gardeners here?
« Reply #1044 on: October 16, 2014, 10:44:52 pm »
I've never heard of lilys being funeral flowers before!!  :o
I had them for my bridal bouquet.....
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Re: Are there any backyard veggie gardeners here?
« Reply #1045 on: October 16, 2014, 10:58:40 pm »
Wow cookie that pineapple is huge,hope it taste as good as it looks. My mum says  the same about lilies.the flowers look lovely chookie.
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« Reply #1046 on: October 17, 2014, 01:19:54 am »
That's probably why I love Waratahs Chookie. No chance of growing them here. They are are regal looking flower to me, so rich and royal.
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Re: Are there any backyard veggie gardeners here?
« Reply #1047 on: October 17, 2014, 03:39:51 am »
I have heard that saying about Lily's being funeral flowers , I love the and have them growing in the garden I have them inside that look great.

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Re: Are there any backyard veggie gardeners here?
« Reply #1048 on: October 20, 2014, 07:49:08 am »
Fantastic pineapple Cookie - how long did it take to grow? I remember the photo of it when it was a little thing.

Lovely flowers Chookie.
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Re: Are there any backyard veggie gardeners here?
« Reply #1049 on: October 20, 2014, 09:15:20 am »
Wow Cookie love your pineapple.
Flowers look beautiful Chookie .  I have a photo of a beautiful Waratah hedge I took just out of Devonport, I will show you Cookie it was beautiful.
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