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1st December

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The Trees We're in summer now, so the spring flowers are pretty much finished. If they weren't before they will be after the heatwave of the last couple of days!! This is a ponytail palm my hubby got a long time before we got married. It was originally in a pot  indoors until he planted it out. It's apparently unusual to have one with so many 'ponytails' & so many flower spikes on it. Pretty much every year we get at least this many flower spikes. Sometimes more - it depends if we've remembered to remove the dead ones from the previous year. Occasionally one of the branches rots - another one shoots up to replace it. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License .
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