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[broodytood]

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for you and for your dad! I am truly sorry for your loss!

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

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for you and for your dad! I am truly sorry for your loss!

Hallerlake, I am so sorry for your loss.

 

[Ogress]

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I'm so sorry.

 

[Breshcandra]

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Mom is gone.

I am so sorry.​

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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I need to take a photo of my climbing hydrangea, and my sisters; mine was slow to get going, and suddenly last year it was everywhere on the north wall of my house. When I pulled it off the house and trellised it I ended up with a four- part trellis, including one eight-foot chunk of livestock panel, one three-foot by four and a half foot chunk ditto, and two bits of decorative trellising I got cheap at Tuesday Morning, each with a rondel of glass in a frame at the top, one set on the porch rail and the other on the top of the dog fence (Deirdre: between my bedroom window and the big mock-orange). I finally got to the Iron Rooster yesterday and bought a second wrought iron bracket to support the final corner of the big piece of livestock panel; I had a single nice hook from the blacksmithery at Puyallup Fair and the bottom of the trellis has eight inches of galvanized steel every six inches pushed into the ground, but I prefer having all four corners stabilized.

For those has not seen one, this is a Climbing Hydrangea in bud: http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a41/Julia_here/DSC_0402-2.jpg. They get huge when they're happy; I remember a wall on the Richmond to London rail route which was thirty feet tall and a kilometer long, covered with climbing hydrangea in bloom; there also used to be a huge one out by Bruceport, but then there also used to be a Dr. van Fleet rose on the south side of 101 just past Cosmopolis that climbed 60 feet up into a cedar tree; it was cut down and replaced by a Grays Harbor PUD substation.

My sister gave me a piece of climbing hydrangea (the true one, not the Schizophragma hydrangeoides), several years ago. I'm still waiting for it to take off. Maybe this year.

Mine is Hydrangea peteolaris, also; I got it from Forest Farmat the same time as Hydrangea quercifolia, a plant of each apiece for me and Mom; they did a lot better, a lot faster, at her house in the rocky soils than here in my sand.

 

[hallerlake]

Thank you all. She had a good Mother's Day. She saw most of her children, grandchildren, and great grand children. The ones who couldn't be there, she'd seen recently. I don't know what Dad is going to do without her. Most of the arrangements are in place for the funeral, etc., so things should go smoothly. We just have to find out when the church is available.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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I saw that, too late last night to call. I'm going to see if she's still there today, pretty nice BLRW.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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Oh, Deirdre, I'm so sorry! Such a loss!

 

[pettec63]

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Are we allowed to know where they came from? Hatchery, feed store, breeder?

Sure!! They all came from a feed store, which I believe get their chicks from Dunlap, the person that sold them to us thought she knew what some of them were, I don't really know so that's why I put it out there, to see if by wonderfully knowledgeable friends here could help!!

Congrats on your 1000 post!!!

 

[cheryl98117]

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Im so sorry Hallerlake.