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- From: jkusters@zeus.calpoly.edu (Chrome Jester)
- Newsgroups: soc.motss
- Subject: Re: Poinsettias
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.174038.193904@zeus.calpoly.edu>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 17:40:38 GMT
- References: <BzzM7I.D2I@agora.rain.com>
- Organization: California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
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- bcapps@agora.rain.com (Brent Capps) divulges:
- ->In the past I've just
- ->planted them in the snow outside and figured if gawd wanted 'em
- ->to live then she'd take care of them.
- ->
- ->It has since become apparent that gawd doesn't like Poinsettias
- ->any more than I do.
-
- This is amusing... Years ago, my mom tried the same thing (though it wasn't
- snow, it was just this bare patch out in the yard). Now, we have this
- really interesting hedge that JUST WON'T DIE. We even trimed it down to
- almost bare stems poking up a few inches off the roots, and did this a few
- times, but it grows back nice and healthy.
-
- obmotss: Hmmm... do poinsettias have gender? Perhaps my mom acquired a
- set of gay flowers? :)
-
- JOhn.
-
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