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Pot Plant
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Twisted
The disadvantage of winter in Canada is the temperature. Not that Feliks
Twist was personally troubled by the cold: it would have to get very much
icier than southern Ontario before the anti-freeze in his vampire blood was
unable to cope. No his problem was floral.
Or, more accurately, bracteal. Poinsettias cannot bear so much as a touch
of frost. Still, by now he had more than a century’s experience in the
potting shed. Out of the light-controlled room, he wheeled the plant he
had cherished for years, now coaxed into cladding itself in brilliant
scarlet
A veritable poinsettia tree.
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