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It started out in my Grandmothers' yard and listening to her keen knowledge of what all these beauties. Everything from where they came from, to what their special care may be, for the more delicate of flowers.

Being a girly girl and totally engulfed in the wanting to know all I could about flowers, was over shadowed by the fact that I seem to have no natural ability to grow things, on the contrary in fact it seemed I quickly killed everyone that I spent time on. Either I would over water it, or not enough.

As the years went by, I slowly tried my hand at different things and as I would get success in the plant actually growing, well I decided to incorporate several types of plants. Everything from flowering trees, to blooming ground covers and Bamboo.

In the last few years I have become to be known as the Lady with the yard like a Botanical garden. Yes everything grows wonderful these days.

Then I started to grow things by seed and start them in my new greenhouse. I use marigolds every year around my vegetable garden, to keep pesky insects away from the veggies.

Since I use so many of them and they produce a huge amount of seeds, on the spent flower heads. Each one can produce any where from twenty to fifty seeds.

This particular year I started several of these seeds in individual starter pots and I also planted about eight in a big flower pot. I placed this pot next to the back door and thought it would be good to have here, because it can help with some bugs back here.

To my surprise they grew all right. They were "Huge" I mean not your average 6 to 24 inch Marigolds. These turned into mammoth plants reaching a height of 5feet and part of the bush was a little taller than that. I couldn't believe it.

My friends made a point to come over just to see it for their self. Taking the picture to work just didn't do it justice. You had to see it up front and personal. It had not only grown extremely tall, but was more like a bush than a flower with a single stalk.

My youngest son could actually sit on the step behind it and you could not see the majority of him. For some reason things seem to really thrive around here, thankfully. I have not had anymore that tall since, but they have been close.

Just likes to grow big and standout and show its self off loud and proud.

What a difference from years ago, when I couldn't grown a thing and now the things I grow, seem to just take off and go wild with growth. What a way to be paid back by nature, with beautiful huge plants to enjoy.

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