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3/4/00. Border pinks survived the winter in pretty good shape.
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3/23/00. Good showing of new growth for 2000.
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4/15/00. Quite a few buds showing up.
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4/15/00. Close-up of buds.
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4/15/00. Uh-oh! Problems!! Looks like something is eating the border pinks.
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4/15/00. Yep! Something chewed the stems right off.
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4/15/00. The culprit escaped through this tunnel, I suspect.
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4/17/00. My poor border pinks have been decimated. I doubt they'll recover, even with the MoleMover® intervention.
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4/17/00. Despite everything, my border pinks have valiently displayed their first fully open bloom. I am so disappointed. I love their fragrance, and had so looked forward to lots of blooms.
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4/24/00. Planted this new plant in the "quarter-round" bed in a holding pattern; will redo this bed this fall.
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4/30/00. Getting some blooms despite the damage.
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5/4/00. Getting more blooms than I thought I would. And the fragrance--heavenly.
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5/4/00. What a sweet little bloom this plant has.
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5/13/00. Seeds planted 6 days ago are almost all sprouted.
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5/24/00. Original border pinks are almost all dead.
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5/25/00. New border pinks finished blooming and have been deadheaded.
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5/25/00. Last surviving seedling; all others suffered from damping off.
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6/8/00. "New" pinks are growing well.
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6/15/00. Keeping my fingers crossed.
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7/1/00. So far, so good.
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7/8/00. I'm SO proud of this!
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7/13/00. "New" pink spreading well.
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7/23/00. WOW! Still growing really well. Hope it is well established before cold weather. Should be--we've got 3 months before the cold really gets here.
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8/21/00. Planted in the street bed, in view of the front porch.
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9/15/00. Growing and spreading.
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2/8/01. Despite the fact that the deer chewed "my" pink off to the soil, it's coming out and actually filling in. Maybe they did me a favor, after all.
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3/27/01. "New" pink is doing well...
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4/2/01. ...and is full of buds.
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4/10/01. Literally days before I planned to dig this up for the pond installation, I've been hit again. How disheartening.
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4/10/01. This was all I could save.
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4/10/01. On a happier note, "my" pink is doing well.
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5/4/01. "My" pink with buds.
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5/5/01. Totally worth the wait.
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5/15/01. Salvaged "new" pink planted in pond bed.
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5/23/01. "My" pink in pretty much full bloom. Lovely.
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3/31/02. Each piece of the salvaged "new" pink has grown into a fine clump, ready to bloom. No more problems with voles, due to the lined bed.
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