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Garden Pic Wednesday: My Christmas Bouquets!

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Today, Hubby and I were doing a little outside clean-up: he got up on the roof and cleaned off the pine needle debris off the whole roof, but particularly the gutter corners while I cleaned up the litter of pine cones. They hadn't been picked up in a month, so quite a few. Then refilled the bird feeder and watered the Gerbers and Mums and various pots of Salvia and Parsley with miracle grow. The orange Gerber put up a bloom and is preparing another and the mums are in a regrowth phase prepping for spring bloom. Today's picture, though, is of my Christmas bouquet. Publix's grocery had a special on bundles of Alstroemeria, 3 for $12, which is a very good deal.  So on Christmas Eve we bought 3 of them, which gave me enough not only for my vase of Frazier greenery, but I had to also press a clear glass juice pitcher into service to hold a bunch on the kitchen counter and had a few blooms to put in a tiny with a bit of tree greenery on the sink counter in the guest ba...