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Herts Mike
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Astro asterias

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This old boy flowering today- getting on for 5" across now.
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Lovely plant and flower Mike.
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That's an impressive good sized plant, Mike.
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Nice looking plant
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Very nice. (tu) I have a couple of big old Astros from my original 1980's collection which are both very sulky producing flower buds that rarely open, my smaller plants acquired in recent years are much more reliable.
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juster wrote: ↑Tue Jul 23, 2019 10:20 pm Lovely plant and flower Mike.
Good job Mike. Beautiful plant as well as flower.
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1950's asterias is seriously old.
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Nice plant Mike.
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Herts Mike wrote: ↑Sun Jul 28, 2019 8:00 pm 1950's asterias is seriously old.
It would be seriously old, I miss typed it should have been 1980's, back then I did not think they would become columnar but given forty years...
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