So this is my version of
'Out of Africa'
I once had a flower garden, that was 3 ft by 3 ft by 4 ft tall, completely filled with carrot plants and blooms. They have a tendency to come back every year and I trimmed it down to a 3x3 square and then watched it take off toward the sky like the guy from 'Jack and the Bean Stalk'. Most of the people that I know that have grown carrots for food have never seen a carrot bloom. This is the best picture that I have from 2005, and it doesn't really show the true splendor of the larger blooms, which remind me of a tree from the African plain. No pictures of the 3x3x4 massif. Oh, and they are hardy in the winter time, sometimes you would see this green poking up through the snow in the backyard in the dead of winter, and its a carrot looking for the sun.
(As I proof-read this I tried to sound like Meryl Streep, well, the Danish O-o-A version of M.S.)
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