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Winter Sowing
clumsygrdner

My Longest Night

18 years ago

This is my first time winter sowing, so on Friday I stayed up doing it. I was just cleaning up when I got a call from one of my friends who, in his characteristic blunt way, said that my friend Luis is dead.

Yeah so, needless to say I didn't get any sleep that night or day or last night or now. And I didn't get any more sowing done. But because I sowed Ratibidas last, I'll sow those every year in his memory. I think they'll look great with my Agastaches. It can be his memorial garden in my backyard.

Just in case anyone was wondering where I was yesterday.

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