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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
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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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My son loves to release the butterflies back into the garden.

Sounds like your son might enjoy these websites, Gift Horse:

http://www.learner.org/jnorth/

http://www.smm.org/sln/monarchs/tf/otherlinks.html


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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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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?

I think I've read that there are 200 kinds of milkweed species worldwide. I've planted Asclepias Tuberosa.

http://www.prairiefrontier.com/pages/natvpics/nativec2.html

It has orange flowers and the seed pods have down inside, yes. When they open the seeds fly away on their own individual down.

http://www.wildflowersbyluann.com/newsite/learning/seeds/full/milkweed.jpg


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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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