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Thursday, May 14, 2015

Spring Flowers at Laughing Fox















Spring Flowers at Laughing Fox Farm. The irises and Nellie Stevens holly have been here since before we owned the farm. I planted the tulips and pansies. What I have learned is that irises loved to be thinned out, pansies are annuals, tulips have to be fed to produce flowers, and the holly tree just thrives on its own.  I had to feed one of the three hollies one year. I sprinkled about 10 lbs. of bone meal around it one spring and again in the fall.  I fed it because the leaves were turning yellow. Hollies go through a molting period when some of the leaves turn yellow. But that time the yellow leaves were about to outnumber the green ones. The tree is doing great.

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