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Sat Jul 22, 2017, 06:53 PM

Jul 2017

Your post reminded me of when Rubin and I would talk on the phone, late at night, about our respective flower gardens. When he was incarcerated in NJ, the Canadians had snuck an onion in with some other food for him. He got dirt from the prison's yard, and watched in amazement as it grew, then flowered. This resulted in his love for gardening. I used to laugh, because he never bothered to learn various flowers' names .....he was just fascinated by their beauty.

A lady who lived in this house in the late 1940s through early '50s planted massive flower gardens, and lots of flowering shrubs, etc. I've added a lot of roses. My sons need only buy flowers for their lady friends in the winter. (grin)

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