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To: Gauguin who wrote (53723)	7/23/2000 4:26:08 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

One of my fantasies is building a conservatory, just a room sized one, that I can fill with plants that are too tender for these northern winters. The mother of a friend of mine used to grow night-blooming cereus, that only blooms one night, and on the night that it bloomed, she would invite all her friends over and they would sit in the conservatory and have a party, and smell the perfume. He gave me a cutting, and I managed to keep it alive long enough for it to bloom once, but I overwatered it.

To: Gauguin who wrote (53723)	7/24/2000 6:34:55 PM
From: Crocodile	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

I counted eleven flower varieties in that garden. Yowee. Is there anything MORE exotic than A Night Garden? I don't think so... uhm... well... perhaps, but a night garden is exotic...and romantic... unless the mosquitoes are really bad, in which case it's a waste because they get to have it all to themselves once the sun goes down... Eleven varieties, eh? hmmm... You know... that innocent little remark got me started on something... Yessir... It made me start wonder just HOW MANY white plants there actually ARE out in that garden.... sooo... late yesterday... yes... I confess... I went out to the garden with a piece of paper and started counting the little suckers... Hey! I couldn't HELP myself... seriously... I just HAD to know how many there were.. I guess I might have done it because... I'm OBSESSED!!!... Yes... Right!! I admit it... Well, anyhow... after all of that work, I couldn't let my list just go to waste, could I? So, I figured I'd share it with you... Bore you with the damned thing... Make you GLAD you don't have a white garden... and the problems that ensue when you are trying to stick to one colour of flower... but also trying to keep things interesting through the whole season... So, here it is... The list of flowers and shrubs in the white garden...by season (roughly)... EARLY PLANTS: Solomon's Seal, White Trillium, Columbine, white tulips and narcissus, Anemone Pulsatilla Alba, Dicentra Alba, 'Northern Lights' hardy azalea, white lilac bushes, High-bush Cranberry, Wild Cherry trees, Sweet Woodruff. MID-SUMMER White hydrangeas, roses, asiatic lilies, hemerocallis lilies, feverfew chrysanthemums, grecian digitalis, 2 kinds of white clematis, achillea (2 varieties), Salvia Nemorosa "Snow Hill", Festiva Maxima peonia, Geranium Phaeum Album, "Miss Lingard" white phlox, Veronica Gentianoides Variegata, Hosta, Nicotiana, Anaphalis margaritacea LATE SUMMER: Marsh Mallow (which are huge and loaded with white flowers), roses, Astilbe, Goat's Beard, White Swan echinacea, Shasta Daisies, Moon Flower, Saxifraga Umbrosa, "Snow Cap" arabis, Arabis Caucasica,, Cimicifuga Simplex "White Pearl", Tiarella Cardifolia "Rosalie". THere... now I never have to do that again...It's here forever... (0: