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lucky1
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Love THAT color, Jim.

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Posted : 31/05/2013 12:03 pm
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How long do the flowers last?

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Posted : 01/06/2013 5:34 am
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How long do the flowers last?

thanks lucky1

I was checking them out today wondering
how they lasted through all the rain and they are fake,
my neighbor put them on there.

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Posted : 01/06/2013 11:27 am
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I was checking them out today wondering
how they lasted through all the rain and they are fake,
my neighbor put them on there.

Creative neighbor 😆

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Posted : 01/06/2013 2:08 pm
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Apparently she pulls some kind of string to open them....some more.

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The bottom flower is the oldest,notice anything different about it?

Just noticed a bunch more are blooming....so,

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Posted : 01/06/2013 2:38 pm
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They look amazing! 8) Do they attract butterflies or hummingbirds maybe?

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Posted : 02/06/2013 4:20 am
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Have not seen any...I will keep an eye out as they say...

They are a nice little stand of cactus and flowers,that
is a pretty dang big clump for a low growing barrel-esk plant!

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Posted : 02/06/2013 12:30 pm
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