They're the State flower of Maryland, but the grow really well in Virginia, too. Perennials, they can grow in some shade, which, in my yard, is a good thing. I like them because they'll bloom for several weeks here at the end of July, when most flowers are finished, providing color until the fall mums come in.
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i once saw an arrangement of red chokeberries next to black-eyed susans. think it was at a funeral. wyrd.
They are my favorite flower. I guess that's because I was born in Maryland. I carried them as my wedding bouquet, picked myself in the field across the road from my house.
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Homeric Ode to Demeter, which tells of Hades who caught Persophone
"up reluctant on his golden car and bare her away lamenting. . . . But no one, either of the deathless gods or of mortal men, heard her voice, nor yet the olive-trees bearing rich fruit: only tenderhearted Hecate, bright-coiffed, the daughter of Persaeus, heard the girl from her cave . . . ."
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i once saw an arrangement of red chokeberries next to black-eyed susans. think it was at a funeral. wyrd.
Wow, they're beautiful! Don't think I've seen them before, possibly we don't get them here in the UK. x
They are my favorite flower. I guess that's because I was born in Maryland. I carried them as my wedding bouquet, picked myself in the field across the road from my house.
Your garden pictures always make me smile.
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