Tropicals & Tender Perennials: A DP, 1 by Kell

Kell wrote:
All day I have had 2 songs singing in my head, enough to make me loopy! OK, even more loopy, LOL!

All our talk about bougies, anyone recall this song?
He was the boogie-woogie bugle boy of Company B
And when he plays boogie-woogie bugle
He's as busy as a bzz bee
And when he plays he makes the company jump eight to the bar
He's the boogie-woogie bugle boy of Company B

LOL, my Mom loved to dance to that song.

Then I every time I would see Jim's thread Memories, Elvis would break into song for me!
Memories, pressed between the pages of my mind
Memories, sweetened thru the ages just like wine

Quiet thought come floating down
And settle softly to the ground
Like golden autumn leaves around my feet
I touched them and they burst apart with sweet memories,
Sweet memories

Of holding hands and red bouquets
And twilight trimmed in purple haze
And laughing eyes and simple ways
And quiet nights and gentle days with you

Memories, pressed between the pages of my mind
Memories, sweetened thru the ages just like wine.

Do any of you do that too? All day a song can last going round and round inside my head.


LOL Gloria, I had forgotten about that. Remember how people would tell me they were sending all sorts of hot brugs and they would all bloom Frosty. LOL. Too funny! No wonder Frosty is not on my hit parade. LOL

I wonder if your bougie problem was not the heat but the length of your growing season. I am sure I am cooler here than you are and I have no trouble with them. They do like full sun and lots of fertilizer.

I promise these DP are getting much easier to get! I feel bad you guys have yet get one.

Here is another double pink I am trying to cross with that long tendriled, dark pink one whose color goes all the way up on my other current thread. Wouldn't it be great if this beautiful DP form has even longer tendrils and darker pink? Though this photo is from today, the first day open so it will get darker.