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Kiss My Aster

Optimism? Or Gambling….

Buying dormant Bleeding Hearts in a heat wave in August? I think that’s a show of faith… Letting them sit in the driveway for a week until it was cool…

Amanda Thomsen
Published Sep 4, 2010 2:37 PM PDT

Buying dormant Bleeding Hearts in a heat wave in August?

I think that's a show of faith...

Letting them sit in the driveway for a week until it was cool enough for me to plant them?

That's gambling...

Dormant Dicentra
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Amanda ThomsenAuthor

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