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Well, she started, with that tone in her voice that means that whatever I was thinking, it was definitely wrong.
“Well, we really can’t say that just because you got some seeds to sprout that you’ve ‘grown’ Impatiens, now can we?”
“But they are growing, and they are Impatiens . .
She cut me off with, “How do we know until they’re in the ground and are flowering? How can we know for sure that you haven’t gotten some other seeds mixed up — inadvertently, I’m sure — with Impatiens. So let’s just say that I’ll pay up when we see the first Impatiens flowers.” End of argument.
Now I had to nurse them past flower puberty and into full flowerhood. I checked them every day, and when the weather turned warm, I started planting them outside.
Day after day, they grew bigger, but no flowers appeared.
One day I took a close look at a couple of the plants and saw that their leaves were a bit yellowish.
“They need iron,” I said, and I hightailed it to the garden center to get some chelated iron. I doused them with it. It seemed to make no difference. My spirits sagged.
Finally, after about a month in the ground, I went on my normal pre
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