Bought flowers today at Metropolitan Plant and Flower Exchange, in West Orange, close by. The staff was very friendly, and the place has a decent - though not huge - selection.
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| Our tulips remain alive and kicking in the back. Bottom left is phlox, then the vertical row to the right of it is stock, and next row is begonia, then a pink geranium. |
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| Phlox (one of my two perennial selections) |
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| Stock ("midget mix" - there are pink and white in addition to purple |
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| Snapdragon, but alas! They don't appear to snap. Has that quality been bred out of all of them? |
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| Begonia |
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| Gazania. I'm not sure yet whether I like this plant. |
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| Lantana |
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| Wormwood, my second of two perennials. I was attracted by its smell. The varietal is called "Powis Castle," a place we loved in Wales. |
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| Brachyscome. I don't know anything about it, but it is pretty. |
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| This is one of the plants that was already there, but I noticed a tag on it - now we know what it is! |
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| Note the azalea starting to bloom in the foreground, and in the background - white lilacs! Two of them! Already there, not new. UPDATE: they are not lilacs; they are some variety of viburnum. |
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| Gazania and portulaca next to our spontaneous primrose. |
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