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Old 02-05-2007, 08:22 PM
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Re: WAB Members' Garden Photos

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Originally Posted by smartie View Post
In my garden I grow it in the muddy bank of the pond - if you look at the first photo I posted in this thread on page 1, you can see the rhubarb-like leaves it puts out in summer in the middle of the shot. The plant in the picture is about 10 years old, grown from a single small corm. The leaves turn a pleasing dark red in the autumn. It will grow with its feet in water, if you have some soil/mud at the edge of the pond that you can set the corm into.
Thanks. I may try one of those.

Jenny
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