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Dear Faldage: Thanks for posting that. I am sufficiently moved by it that I forbear to ask any of the questions it prompts.
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Great link to Song of Soloman, Faldage.
I sang the Song of Soloman with a madrigal for my music teacher's wedding years ago. It really was lovely music and the words were rather suggestive. Good stuff.
My beloved is mine, and I am his: he feedeth among the lilies.
Many waters cannot quench love...
Ahhh...
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You can teach him a lot more on a lot less than 800 acres, gift horse.
True. As a matter of fact, we planted several dozen milkweed plants this year and had all sorts of Monarch butterfly activity in our garden. We collected a Monarch chrysalis recently, put it in a butterfly cage, and are waiting for it to emerge. My son loves to release the butterflies back into the garden.
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G.H., is milk-weed that plant that has a long stalk and these almond shaped buds at the top, about four inches long, that if you open-up have a whole pile of soft downy fluff inside?
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Sounds like your son might enjoy these websites, Gift Horse:
Thanks! Those are cool sites, grapho.
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Hmmm, definitely not the plant I was thinking of. The one I'm thinking of has the pods hanging on like corn cobs on their stalk.
I'll go look in my plant books, see if I can spot it. For some reason I think it was also called a milkweed.
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The one I'm thinking of has the pods hanging on like corn cobs on their stalk. My plant gets hard, canoe-shaped pods that are filled with down & seeds. I think most milkweed have pods like that actually. Edit: I just found a photo that might help. See bottom of page at this link. http://kikki.celtic-twilight.com/perennial/asclepias_tuberosa.htm
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