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Ptah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-02-11 10:50 PM
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Defiant gardener ..


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=9497821


Have to draw a line somewhere.
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struggle4progress Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-02-11 11:08 PM
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1. To the barricades!
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Ptah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-02-11 11:14 PM
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4. We'll move at night to surprise them!
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Kali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-02-11 11:09 PM
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2. yeah!!!!
tahrir sunflowers!:toast:
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Ptah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-02-11 11:15 PM
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5. Freedom!

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ellenrr Donating Member (619 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-03-11 07:48 AM
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17. these sunflowers are beautiful
why don't you plant some of those man-eating flowers - and ask your manager to put their finger in it.

reminds me of SPalin (I think it was) "trees use up oxygen"
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era veteran Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-03-11 04:24 PM
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20. I remembered this photo & previous post.
Go for it.
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stuntcat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-03-11 04:30 PM
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22. Freedom!
wow what a beautiful picture!
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kentauros Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-02-11 11:09 PM
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3. I grew some of those one year.
Two were nine feet tall and the other one ten feet.The seed heads were huge, but never got pollinated, so the seeds never matured into something edible.

I suggest you plant some in a roll-around pot, give it to your manager as a peace offering. Just don't tell them they will get fourteen feet high. That way, when they do, you can grow yours just as high and point to theirs before refusing to cut yours back.
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Ptah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-02-11 11:17 PM
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6. These are to big for a roll-around smaller than a truck.

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LiberalAndProud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-02-11 11:27 PM
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7. Oooooh you're going to get in trouuuuu-ble!
Good for you.
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Ptah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-02-11 11:43 PM
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10. I know, this is worse than clotheslines!!1!~!1!!1


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kentauros Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-02-11 11:34 PM
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8. So, whatever happened with the management and their "request"?
Were you able to defy them? Did your neighbors give a damn either way? Was it one of them that initially complained? (I know the feeling on the latter, from the "aesthetics police"...)
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Ptah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-02-11 11:42 PM
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9. I folded.
The complaint was from corporate.
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kentauros Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-02-11 11:48 PM
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12. So, are you just "testing" them again this year?
:P
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ornotna Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-02-11 11:46 PM
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11. I really like your sun flowers
But maybe you should consider growing something different, something they will really like.

http://www.tindaraorchids.com/rare-plants.htm

:evilgrin:
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Ptah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-02-11 11:52 PM
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14. Wait. What?
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marzipanni Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-03-11 12:44 AM
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15. LOL!
Ptah, Ptah, quite contrary, How does your garden grow?
With sunflowers so tall they shine over the wall,
And huge shapeless penis flowers that smell like putrefying roadkill all in a row!

<snip>
More information on the giant lily is available from the International Aroid Society, while this National Geographic piece includes a translation of the plant's scientific name: 'Amorpho meaning shapeless, phallus meaning penis, and titanum meaning huge'.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/weblog/idx/0,,1274416,00.html
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MiddleFingerMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-02-11 11:49 PM
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13. I've TOLD you the solution, Ptah!!!
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This is Arizona. Plant a dozen of these, and not only will your
neighbors LOVE you... but the State Legislature will probably
establish a new holiday -- Ptahday -- and even declare it an
official state holiday with mandatory paid time off for all AZ
residents.
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Just DO it. Why do you hate the rest of us so?
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The Gunflower:

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Ptah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-03-11 01:42 AM
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16. Bees! I send you BEES!!!!!!!!!!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23LC6YulnJE
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WolverineDG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-03-11 08:11 AM
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18. I've had some of those grow wild in my back yard
Have no idea where the seeds came from, though. :(

dg
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HopeHoops Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-03-11 09:20 AM
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19. I've grown those - beautiful flowers and full seeds that are great for roasting.
Well, the ones that the birds don't get to first.
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stuntcat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-03-11 04:29 PM
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21. Daaaammmnnn
omg what kinda uptight freak is bothered enough by sunflowers to need a letter like that??
If I haven't already given up on people this would push me off the friggin edge :banghead:
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