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Nancy's avatar

P.S. I just read that Doretta's thyme is a ground-hugging, weed-choking, doesn't-much-like-watering thyme! Nice ground cover...or pool table cover plant, lol!

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Nancy's avatar

I'm on the hunt now for Doretta's thyme!💚

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Carol J Michel's avatar

Me too!

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Melissa AuClair's avatar

Thank you! What a fun read. I’ll be on the lookout for Doretta’s books to add to my library.

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Jen Bolger's avatar

Love this one! Thank you for your research. She would have been my friend.

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Ann Welles's avatar

Perhaps from "partide" or divided into parts which connotes categorizing. Trying to figure out the various characteristics for classifications of violets was a most competitive almost-hobby for horticulturists in the early 19th century. John Ruskin's "Proserpina" is one, if perhaps the driest, example of the struggle.

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Carol J Michel's avatar

You might be right on the word, and I didn't know that about competing to classify violets! I'll have to look up more info about that.

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Adrienne Mason's avatar

These lost ladies have such great names. And I am intrigued by "partidy!" I've been trying to imagine what it could actually be, assuming it was a typo, or a made-up word, and am coming up blank.

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Carol J Michel's avatar

I came up blank too, and even looked in several older dictionaries I have. I am inclined to think it was a typo but I don't know what it should be. I tried translating from French to English... nothing. A mystery word...

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